2013Annual Report

The Australia India Institute, based at The University of Melbourne, is funded by the Australian Government, Department of Education,

the State Government of Victoria and the University of Melbourne© Copyright: Australia India Institute 2014

Edited by Christopher Kremmer and Alexandra Hansen

ContentsDirector’s Report 4

Chair’s Report 5Distinguished Visitors 6

Conferences 10Teaching 14

Scholarships, Internships, Exchanges 16Research 19

Publications 25Social Media 28

Art and Culture 30Orations and Talks 34

Highlights from the Orations 39Workshops and Seminars 45

Year in Review 46Director’s Outreach 54

Partners 57Governance and Staff 58

Patron and Fellows 59Financial Reports 60

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The Australia India Institute at Five On 20 October 2013, in celebrating its fifth birthday, the Australia India Institute (AII) reached a significant milestone.

In the five years since its establishment by resolution of the University of Melbourne’s Council, the Institute has played a game-changing role in academia, policy debates, cultural and civil society activities, and second track diplomatic engagement between Australia and India. Its publications, international conferences, public seminar series, federally-funded study and internship programs, and its state-funded Victoria-India Doctoral Scholarship (VIDS) scheme and Emerging Leader Fellowships (ELF), are changing Indian perceptions of Australia and have created tremendous opportunities for partnerships across key areas of the relationship.

By co-convening the annual Australia-India Roundtable, the A.I.I brings together influential thought leaders from both countries to deliberate on the challenges facing our two nations.

Speaking at the Institute in 2013, the Secretary of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Peter Varghese, acknowledged “the many initiatives that the Australia India Institute has taken to strengthen the bonds between Australia and India”, and its “important role in expanding our understanding of the relationship and in encouraging discussion about its future direction”.

The A.I.I’s ‘task force reports’ on Indian Ocean security and stability, Australian and Indian perceptions of the other, and science, technology and innovation co-operation between Australia and India have become mandatory reading for anyone interested in the relationship. The Task Force report on Tobacco Control, for example, inspired a bill in India’s parliament.

In 2013, after a detailed stakeholder analysis, the Institute was restructured around three program-

based centres to better reflect existing priorities and future challenges. The Centre for Teaching and Research will expand undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, run MOOC subjects on Coursera, and lead a cutting-edge research program. The Centre for Public Policy, Dialogue and Outreach will ensure that the Institute remains a vibrant centre for conversation and partnerships between Indians and Australians. We will become the permanent home of the Australia India Youth Dialogue and continue to partner the Lowy Institute in hosting the annual Australia-India Roundtable. The Institute’s Business Resource Centre will become a one-stop hub for information and guidance on the Australia-India trade relationship, provide customised briefs and run executive education programs.

In 2014 we will seek to establish an Institute chapter in India, complementing the Australian Government’s signature initiative of a ‘New Colombo Plan’, and helping to ensure that a stay in India becomes a “rite of passage” for many more Australians.

Without the support of the Australian Department of Education, State Government of Victoria, The University of Melbourne, our board, including Chair, Robert Johanson and Deputy Chair, Susan Elliott, as well as our staff, fellows, and stakeholders, the A.I.I would not be what it is today.

Professor Amitabh Mattoo, Director, Australia India Institue

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Sincere thanks to everyone who has made 2013 such a successful year for the Australia India Institute. The importance of the Australia-India relationship is now better appreciated and we look forward to further deepening the engagement between our countries.

In 2013, we were delighted to welcome to Melbourne info-tech entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani, and the Secretary of DFAT, Peter Varghese, and many other distinguished speakers and guests. Our Director, Professor Mattoo, participated in Victoria’s fourth trade mission to India this year, marking deepening ties between the state and India. We also hosted a delegation of Indian MPs, creating people-to-people linkages with representatives of Australian governments and the Institute. In another exciting step, the Institute launched a node in Sydney, at the University of New South Wales, under foreign policy analyst Rory Medcalf.

In 2014, we will consolidate the work of the Institute to better support the Australia-India relationship, and effectively address funding issues. The Institute is integral to keeping Australia’s

relationship with India active and lively.

Thanks to all our partners and funders, in particular to the University of Melbourne where we are located and which has provided invaluable support, and to the Australian Government Department of Education, our major funding source. We have worked closely with both on projects through the year and they have been a great help. Thanks too to the State Government of Victoria and its Department of Business and Innovation, for supporting scholarships, particularly the Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships, and other A.I.I programs. We are also sincerely grateful to the Indian High Commission and its Consul-Generals.

Thanks to Professor Mattoo, a vital element of our operation. Thanks too to our staff, fellows, board, funding partners and all other stakeholders and friends of the Institute for a great 2013. We look forward to an even more productive 2014.

Robert Johanson, Chair, Australia India Institute Board.

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Maestro Zubin Mehta In 2013, the Australia India Institute, in partnership with the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, was honoured to bring to Melbourne maestro Zubin Mehta. Considered India’s greatest gift to the Western classical music tradition, Mehta conducted the Australian World Orchestra, performing two works of universal appeal: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, first played at the Theatre des Champs-Élysées in Paris in 1913, and; Gustav Mahler’s 1st symphony, often referred to as The Titan. During his visit, maestro Mehta received an honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne.

M.M. Pallam RajuIndia’s Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is one of its largest and most powerful government departments, with responsibility for all levels of education and training in a nation of more than one billion people. In June 2013, the HRD Minister, M.M. Pallam Raju visited the

Australia India Institute, and gave an oration at a function held in his honour at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Vocational education and training (VET) featured strongly in his speech, delivered before an audience packed with senior government officials and academics, including former Australian Foreign Minister and Chancellor of the Australian National University, Gareth Evans, and India’s High Commissioner to Australia, Biren Nanda. Minister Raju’s visit to Australia provided opportunities for him to engage with Australian and State Government representatives keen to build stronger people-to-people, education and trade ties with India. In Melbourne, he met the Victorian Government Minister for Business and Innovation, Louise Asher, and attended a roundtable organised by the Asia Education Foundation. In Sydney he attended a meeting of the Australia India Education Council. He also visited higher education and skills training institutions.

Maestro Zubin Mehta (left) receives his honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne, with A.I.I Chair, Robert Johanson

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Ela GandhiInternationally renowned social activist and granddaughter of the Mahatma, Ela Gandhi spoke at the Australia India Institute on the subject If Gandhi Were Alive Today during her two-day visit to Melbourne in February. The eminent South Africa-based thinker and advocate of Gandhian non-violent solutions participated in a program of events framed around the theme “Global Problems, Local Solutions”. Highlights of her Melbourne program included: a visit to the Collingwood Children’s Farm to acknowledge Gandhi’s vision of sustainable development; an interaction at the Hanover Welfare Services shelter at Southbank to highlight the plight of homeless people; a visit to the University of Melbourne’s Early Learning Centre at Abbotsford to discuss ways of inculcating ethical non-violent values in young children, and; a forum at the Victorian Women’s Domestic Violence Crisis Service on violence against women.

India’s Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju (far left) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with A.I.I Director Amitabh Mattoo (2nd from left) and India’s High Commissioner to Australia, Biren Nanda (2nd from right).

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Peter Varghese, AOThe Australia India Institute hosted the Secretary of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Peter Varghese AO who delivered the Annual Australia India Institute Oration entitled Our Journey with India. The oration detailed India’s role in the 21st century, its economic weight and strategic influence, and the convergence of India and Australia’s strategic aims.

Nandan NilekaniIn October, at the University of Melbourne, Nandan Nilekani delivered the Australia India Institute Oration on India’s Transformation: The Role of Information Technology. Having co-founded some of India’s most successful and important IT companies and organisations, Nilekani is now Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). He spoke about how a national identity system giving each citizen a unique ID number can create a more inclusive India, thereby transforming the lives of millions more Indians

Indian Parliamentary delegationIn February 2013, an Indian parliamentary delegation led by the Minister for Planning, Rajiv Shukla, made a goodwill visit to Melbourne. Accompanying the Minister was Neeraj Shekhar, a leader of the Samajwadi Party, and son of former Indian Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar. Other delegates included Thaawar Chand Gehlot and Ramen Deka of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Bhartruhari Mahtab of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) party in Orissa. The group attended receptions at the Australia India Institute and the Consulate General of India, and held talks with members of the Australian Parliament.

In May 2013, another group of influential Indian MPs visited Melbourne to meet with academics, policy makers and business leaders at an Australia-India Roundtable co-sponsored by A.I.I, DFAT and the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research’s Governance & Public Policy Initiative. Harsimrat Kaur Badal from Punjab and Shiv Kumar Udasi from Karnataka, both rising political stars, spoke on India’s education

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challenges, to which the University of Melbourne’s Fazal Rizvi and Marion van Rooden of the Victorian Department of Business and Innovation both responded. David Luff of resources company Rio Tinto participated in talks on India’s energy security.

The Hon. Louise Asher, MPAmitabh Mattoo, Director of the Australia India Institute hosted a reception in honour of the Hon. Louise Asher MLA, Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business, Minister for Tourism and Major Events, Minister for Employment and Trade. At the reception, Minister Asher announced the State Government of Victoria’s commitment to match Australian Government funding of $1.5 million for the Australia India Institute. Minister Asher also awarded certificates to recipients of Victoria India Doctoral Scholarships.

Sanjay Jaiswal (2nd from left), Madhu Goud Yaskhi, Alan Tudge, Shivakumar Udasi, Amitabh Mattoo, Ramesh Chandran, Harsimrat Badal, and Pradeep Taneja (10th from left) and Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo during their visit to the Australia India Institute in May 2013.

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The Australia India Institute’s international conferences are flagship events, bringing together leading experts from across the world on important academic and policy themes. These conferences enabled the Institute to shape and project an emerging agenda for Australia-India co-operation in 2013.

FICCI Higher Education Summit The 9th FICCI Higher Education Summit was held over two days in November 2013 at Federation House in New Delhi, hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and the Australia India Institute. The conference brought together key policy makers, educationists and representatives of industry at national and international level, for deliberations and knowledge sharing. Attendees included A.I.I Distinguished Fellow and Indian MP, Shashi Tharoor, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Glyn Davis and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Susan Elliott, A.I.I Chairman Robert Johanson, A.I.I Director Amitabh Mattoo, and

other vice-chancellors and parliamentarians from India, Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

University of Melbourne Deputy Vice-Chancellor Susan Elliott addresses the FICCI conference in New Delhi

University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis addresses the FICCI conference

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Gondwanalandings: Voices of the emerging Indian diaspora in AustraliaIn September 2013 the Australia India Institute held its fourth annual international conference, Gondwanalandings: Voices of the Emerging Indian Diaspora in Australia. The conference featured plenaries and panels addressing critical community and creative perspectives on the Indian diaspora in Australia, and underwrote a framework for cultural understanding between the two nations that capitalises on the vibrant Indian diaspora in Australia. It also mapped the history of Indian-Australians, highlighting socio-cultural and political issues faced by the diaspora in Australia, showcased Indian-Australian artistic talent and stories shedding light on the benefits of inter-cultural dialogue, projected a future in which arts policy introduced more Indian-Australian voices into the mainstream, and discussed critical perspectives on gender and migration, Indian-Australian literature in the Asian Century, and diasporic media and film beyond Bollywood.

Professor Nayanjot Lahiri addresses the Diaspora Conference

State of the NationIn association with Asialink, the Australia India Institute held forums in Melbourne and Sydney on ‘India as an emerging superpower’. The forum comprised Mike Moignard, Australia India Institute Fellow and former Austrade Commissioner to New Delhi, Deepak Saxena, Managing Director of Riverina Oils & Bio Energy, Mark Laurie, Partner & PwC Australia India Practice Leader, and A.I.I Director, Amitabh Mattoo.

(L-R) Michael Moignard, Mark Laurie, Deepak Saxena, and Amitabh Mattoo

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Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Lecture: India, Indians and Ideas that have shaped the World. Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore the eminent Bengali renaissance poet, philosopher, essayist, critic, composer and educator became the first-ever Asian writer to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

Sumit Ganguly, Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, delivered the inaugural Tagore memorial lecture titled India, Indians and Ideas that have shaped the World, as a part of the Australia India Institute’s Diaspora Conference.

Susan Elliott, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Engagement), The University of Melbourne

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New Chair in Contemporary Indian StudiesIn 2013 the Australia India Institute and the University of Melbourne established a permanent Chair in Contemporary Indian Studies. This important position, funded in large part by the State Government of Victoria, puts the University of Melbourne at the forefront of a resurgence in Indian Studies in Australia.

The inaugural chair, Anthony D’Costa, internationally-renowned political economist, took up his position in May. Formerly with the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, Professor D’Costa had previously spent 18 years at the University of Washington. The author of eight books, he has written extensively on the political economy of the steel, automobile, and info-tech industries, on themes of globalisation, development, innovation and industrial restructuring. Most recently, he co-edited with Amiya Kumar Bagchi Transformation and Development: The Political Economy of Transition in India and China, and edited Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia and A New India? Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century. Recent research includes work on the international mobility of IT workers. Recipient of a grant under the US Government’s Fulbright-Hays program, he has also received fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Korea Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (Abe Foundation), and the World Institute of Development Economics Research.

Undergraduate Teaching: Contemporary IndiaAs an Australian centre of knowledge on India, teaching is a core activity of the Australia India Institute. The long term aim is to build a community of scholars working on India, who can introduce India in all its historical, political, social and cultural dimensions to young students engaging with India-relevant issues.

The undergraduate subject at the University of Melbourne focuses on developments in India since independence from British rule, specifically: India’s constitution and democratic structures; Indian society and social movements; and Indian foreign policy. Students are introduced to the process by which the Constitution was drafted, and the main amendments and principal debates around its functioning since 1950. Contemporary social issues covered include caste, secularism and development. Continuity and changes in India’s foreign policy, starting with the era of Non-Alignment, are also introduced. The subject explores critical dimensions of contemporary Indian politics and society, and introduces students to intellectual debates around key issues.

Postgraduate Teaching: India and the WorldAs India’s influence increases in the international system, understanding its foreign policy and engagement with the rest of the world becomes more important for students of international relations. This subject is a comprehensive review of some key issues of India’s worldview and its behaviour towards the external world designed to familiarise students with the origins and conduct of India’s foreign policy. The course maps the historical trajectory and pre-colonial roots of India’s foreign policy institutions and decision-making processes and examines contemporary thinking and policies. It covers intellectual debates on the nation’s external relations, the culture of strategic thinking in India’s relations with the outside world, India’s relations with its neighbours and great powers, its nuclear weapons debate, and its engagement with multilateral institutions.

MOOC Subject: Contemporary IndiaThe Australia India Institute is developing an online subject on Contemporary India to be hosted on Coursera. This fully-fledged online teaching subject will be the first of its kind anywhere in the world, and will help showcase the University of Melbourne’s commitment to Indian studies.

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Victoria India Doctoral ScholarshipsThe Australia India Institute manages and administers the Victoria-India Doctoral Scholarships (VIDS) for the Victorian Government. The program allocates scholarships to Indian PhD candidates accepted to a Victorian university. Victoria’s nine universities all provide a full tuition waiver with the scholarships, worth AUD90,000 over the duration of the candidate’s studies. Launched in June 2011, the VIDS programme enters its third year in 2014.

The successful candidates for 2013 now studying at Victorian universities are:

Rahul Deb Das, University of Melbourne. Research Title: ‘Approach to Integrated Disaster Management Modelling using Artificial Intelligence’

Poshmaal Dhar, University of Melbourne. Research Title: ‘Understanding how Muc1 (Mucin1) regulates gastrointestinal inflammation caused by bacterial pathogens’

Nidhish Francis, University of Melbourne. Research Title: ‘The role of protease-activated receptor-1 in muscle regeneration’

Raj Kumar Shukla, Monash University. Research Title: ‘Dry Powder Formulation for Pulmonary Delivery of Peptides’

Dhanasekaran Sakthive, Monash University. Research Title: ‘Immune Reponses to vaccine adjuvants’

Harish Ravishankar, Deakin University. Research Title: ‘A Nano-based Process Development of Membrane for Remediation of Heavy Metals’

Amol Janardan Patil, Deakin University. Research Title: ‘Enhancement of durability of intrinsically conductive polymer coated textiles through nanotechnology’

Hina Kalra, LaTrobe University. Research Title: ‘Role of WNT signalling pathway in modulating the extracellular matrix components in colorectal cancer’

Vasudev Dehalwar, Victoria University. Research Title: ‘Design and performance evaluation of cognitive radio network for real time communication in smart grid’

ABOVE - Victoria-India Doctoral Scholars at Government House with Governor of Victoria Alex Chernov AC QC and Mrs Chernov Right - Student Andrea McLean with Indian friends in Jaipur

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Manpreet Kaur Grewal, Victoria University. Research Title: ‘Improving emulsion stability of UHT milk by ultrasonication’.

In 2013, the VIDS Knowledge Exchange was launched at the offices of the Department of Business and Innovation in Melbourne. A forum for scholars to meet and share knowledge amongst themselves, with their supervisors, and with significant stakeholders in industry and business, the knowledge exchange in 2013 included short presentations from four VIDS scholars about their research, followed by a question-and-answer session.

The Australia-India Student Experience – Study Tour In January 2013, the Australia India Institute took twenty participating undergraduate students to visit two of India’s most prestigious higher education institutions, the Universities of Delhi and Mumbai. Funded by the Commonwealth Department of Industry Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, the Australia India Student Experience strengthens relations

between India and Australia and engages young Australians as global citizens.

Participants were exposed to the intellectual and cultural life in a country that is both an emerging superpower and one of the world’s oldest and most dynamic societies. The students, from universities across Australia, travelled to Mumbai, Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. They visited the sprawling slums of Dharavi, in Mumbai, for an introduction to a way of life they had never encountered before, and interacted with Indian undergraduate students at HR College to discuss the challenges facing today’s youth.

In Delhi the students met Australia’s High Commissioner to India, and took part in an Old Delhi heritage walk. They came to appreciate how tradition and modernity are seamlessly interwoven in every aspect of Indian life, be it economic or social. In Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, they were impressed by the grace and grandeur of Mughal architecture, and its embodiment of tolerance and harmony. In Jaipur they visited Amber Fort, the Palace on Water (Jal Mahal) and marvelled at the work of block painters. They also interacted with

Australian and Indian artists present in Jaipur for the Australia India Institute Artists’ Retreat. The students’ blogs about their experiences can be read at www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/blog

The Australia-India Student Experience – InternshipsIn 2013, the Australia India Institute took twenty Australian university students from disciplines including Information Technology, Law, Pharmacy, Commerce, Management, Health Sciences and Communications, to Mumbai to experience life and work in India’s financial capital. The innovative Australia-India Internship Program provides one-month placements with Indian and Australian companies and institutions based in India’s financial capital. In 2013 participating organisations include the National Australia Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Victorian Government, and Cipla, the world’s largest manufacturer of anti-retroviral drugs. Interns were selected from universities in NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania.

Education Leaders’ ExchangeFive Australian universities have joined a program of reciprocal visits to link Australian and Indian Vice-Chancellors and senior university executives. The program includes leadership workshops and the opportunity to “shadow” each other’s daily roles. The exchange, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and managed by the Australia India Institute, comprises two phases. Indian universities hosted Australian education leaders during the week of the FICCI Higher Education Summit in Delhi in November 2013. Australian universities will reciprocate in May 2014.

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The A.I.I/Lowy Institute India PollsIn 2012 the Australia India Institute, working with the Lowy Institute and MacArthur Foundation, conducted face-to-face surveys with 1,233 Indian adults on their opinions of India and the world. The project was led by Australia India Institute Associate Director, Rory Medcalf . In 2013, the release of the results, in two tranches, attracted international attention. The India-Australia Poll 2013 and associated publication, Partners, Problems and Prospects: Indian Attitudes to Australia, revealed that Indians feel warmly towards Australia and see it as a preferred destination for higher education. The representative field survey measured Indian perceptions of Australia on issues including education, diplomacy, naval strategy, energy, science, uranium and cricket. The survey’s surprise findings on what Indians really think about Australia, its political system and way of life, provide insights for business, government and universities. A second tranche of data and subsequent publication, Facing the Future: Indian

Attitudes to the World Ahead, cast light on Indian attitudes towards the world more generally, including insights into Indian attitudes towards China and the US.

The Task Force on Indian Ocean Security, Stability and Sustainability The Australia India Institute Task Force on the Indian Ocean unveiled its report at the Australian Parliament House, Canberra in March 2013. The report, The Indian Ocean Region: Security, Stability and Sustainability in the 21st Century, was formally launched by the Honourable Richard Marles, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Its analysis of regional security included non-traditional security issues, such as fishing and food security, global warming and environmental issues, population and migration, and access to undersea energy resources. Indian and Australian perspectives on the issues were canvassed at a roundtable meeting of analysts and policy-makers in Fremantle, Western Australia in May 2012.

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Principal contributors to the report were:

Dennis Rumley, inaugural Professor of Indian Ocean Studies at the University of Western Australia

Ric Smith, former Australian Ambassador to China and former Secretary of the Australian Department of Defence

David Brewster, Visiting Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, Australian National University

Sanjay Chaturvedi, Department of Political Science, Panjab University

Timothy Doyle, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Adelaide

Amitabh Mattoo, Director, Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne, and Professor of Disarmament Studies, Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Swaran Singh, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Siddarth Varadarajan, Editor, The Hindu newspaper.

The Task Force on Science, Technology, InnovationThe task force evaluated collaborative scientific research projects conducted under the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF). Its report – Science, Technology, Innovation: Australia and India – was launched by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Ian Chubb, at the Australia India Institute in May 2013. The report cites lessons learned from collaborative research and recommends further initiatives to stimulate collaboration and innovation in scientific endeavours engaging the two nations. The report discusses how the race to provide cheaper goods for Asia’s middle class is driving down the cost of both consumer and life-sustaining technologies, and creating a win for rich and poor alike. So-called ‘frugal’ or ‘inclusive’ innovation has produced AUD40

Several members of the Indian Ocean Task Force [L-R] Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi, and David Brewster

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tablet computers, cars costing just AUD2 000, and prosthetic feet for as little as AUD33. The report recommends that Australia extend the AISRF, describing such collaborations as a key contributor to Australia’s growth in the Asian Century.

Principal contributors to the report were:

Robin Batterham AO FREng FAA FTSE – immediate past President, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE); Kernot Professor, University of Melbourne

R. A. Mashelkar FRS FTSE – National Research Professor, CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, Pune; President, Global Research Alliance; Chair, National Innovation Foundation, Government of India.

Emerging Leaders Fellowships For the second year running, the Australia India Institute conducted a program of eight-week residential fellowships at the Institute’s Melbourne office. Nine outstanding mid-career Indian professionals from media, academia, the civil service and public life were brought to Australia to further their research projects.

Each fellow delivers a public lecture on a subject of international significance and produces an extended essay on the same theme, then published by the Institute. The fellows, who travel to at least one interstate destination, also engage more broadly with Australian society through the Institute and the University of Melbourne.

The Emerging Leaders Fellowships program will continue in 2014.

The Emerging Leader Fellows in 2013 were:

Arumugam Aramvalarthanathan - Independent Business Advisor/EntrepreneurResearch title: “Start-up ecosystems in Asia and Australia”

Aramvalarthanathan is an independent advisor to entrepreneurs and businesses, and serves on the boards of the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship at IIM, Ahmedabad, and

JRE entities in India and Singapore. He began his career in 1995 as an investment banker with ICICI Securities before moving to AIG’s private equity business. He was a director with both Standard Chartered Private Equity and the Merlion India Fund, before becoming a director at JRE Partners, where he set up and led a private equity partnership between Rothschild, Jardines and Exor in Singapore and India. An alumnus of BITS, Pilani and IIM, Ahmedabad, he was a Chevening Gurukul scholar at the London School of Economics.

Susan George - Additional Director of Income Tax (Vigilance), Government of IndiaResearch title: “Decentralisation and Good Governance: A Distinct Possibility or a Distant Utopia?”

George is an Additional Commissioner of Income Tax in the New Delhi office of the Indian Revenue Service. Between 2007 and 2012, she worked as a director in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj involved in policy formulation and advocacy for administrative and fiscal empowerment of rural local governments in India. During this period, she oversaw Ministry schemes relating to empowerment of elected women’s representatives, e-governance for Panchayats, and incentivising states to devolve powers to the Panchayats.

Varughese K George - Chief of Bureau (Political) Hindustan TimesResearch title: “Domestic Politics of India’s Foreign Policy”

Varughese K George writes and oversees political coverage for the Hindustan Times, one of India’s leading English language dailies. Based in New Delhi, he has also worked with the Indian Express and Tehelka. He has won several prestigious awards, and in 2006 was selected Ramnath Goenka Journalist of the Year.

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Happymon Jacob - Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiResearch title: “Contours of South Asia’s nuclear instability”

Based at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies at JNU, Jacob teaches courses on ‘India & Disarmament’, ‘National Security & International Relations’ and ‘Foreign Policy Decision Making’. His current research is focused on South Asian nuclear order and India’s foreign policy. Jacob writes a weekly column in the Srinagar-based Greater Kashmir daily and contributes to major national newspapers. He is the author/editor of four books.

Aprajita Kashyap - Assistant Professor, University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGS Indraprastha University, DelhiResearch title: “Managing Diversities in Federations: Natural Resources Issues in Australia, Brazil and India”

Aprajita Kashyap has twelve years of research experience on different aspects of polity, governance, federalism and environment. She obtained her Masters from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and for the last five and a half years has been working as an Assistant Professor at the University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, where she teaches Political Science, International Relations, and Comparative Politics.

Balaji Parthasarathy - Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, BangaloreResearch title: “Reversing the flow of ideas? From local technologies for the marginalised to new forms of global governance”

Parthasarathy is ICICI Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. His research and teaching interests broadly focus on the relationship between technological innovation, economic globalisation, and social change. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Rakesh Ranjan - Director in Housing and Urban Affairs Division of Planning Commission, Government of IndiaResearch title: “Use of land-based financial instruments in funding urban infrastructure projects and state level regulatory framework suitable for attracting private investment in infrastructure projects”

In his role as Director of the Housing and Urban Affairs Division in the Planning Commission, Rakesh Ranjan contributed significantly to drafting policies and programs for urbanisation in the 12th plan period. He also worked as a director in the Infrastructure Division (Highways and Power sector) of the Planning Commission, tasked with developing a suitable regulatory framework to attract private investment to the sector.

K.P. Sudheer – Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, ChennaiResearch title: “Sustainable Water Management: Challenges in India”

K. P. Sudheer is a professor and Head of the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Division of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from Kerala Agricultural University, his Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and his Doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2000. Prior to joining the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2003, he was associated with the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee for six years. He has conducted pioneering research in the area of hydrology and water resources engineering.

Sharda Ugra – Senior Editor, ESPNcricinfoResearch title: “The role of Australia’s growing South Asian community in its cricketing ecosystem and whether the transformation in Australia’s immigration patterns – with their recent shift towards South Asia - will be felt within its cricket in the decades to come.”

Sharda Ugra has been a sports journalist for over 22 years, working across print, radio and online outlets, including ABC Radio Australia. She is currently senior editor at ESPNcricinfo, the

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world’s biggest independent single-sport website. Sharda has covered and reported on a range of sports in Iran, China, Port of Spain and Peshawar. The majority of her writing has revolved around cricket, about which she has written for popular and academic publications in India, England and Australia.

In late 2013 the next cohort of Emerging Leader Fellows was announced. The following India-based researchers will be travelling to Australia to undertake research in 2014:

Sushil Aaron, Director of Projects, Centre for Policy Research

Rajshree Chandra, Post-doctoral fellow, Centre for Policy Research

Swati Chatuverdi, Deputy Editor, Zee News

Puneet Gandhi, Senior Manager (Business Development and M&A), Times Group

Ashis Jalote-Parmar, Associate Professor and Head of Intelligent Design Lab Institute of Information & Communication Technology, (IICT) Ahmedabad University

Binoy Job, Director, Prime Minister’s Office

Ansuman Pattnaik, Additional Director of Income Tax (Investigation)

Joy Purkayastha, Resident Editor, The Times of India, Pune

Rajesh Santhanam, faculty member, the Daly College, Indore

Rajiv Sharma, CEO, Sterling Addlife India Limited

Arvind Shrivastava, Secretary to the Government of Karnataka

Amaresh Singh, Director (Investigation) Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance

Nirupama Subramanian, Associate Editor, The Hindu

Kunal Upadhyay, CEO, Infuse Ventures & Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad

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BooksAmitabh Mattoo, The Reluctant Superpower: Understanding India and its Aspirations, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. 2012

Happymon Jacob, Domestic Politics, Strategic Culture and Indian Foreign Policy, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. 2014

Happymon Jacob and Mallika Joseph, India’s Economic Growth: Opportunities and Challenges for the Region, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. 2014

Mallika Joseph, Demography in South Asia and Implications for Regional and Global Political Narratives, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. 2014

Amitabh Mattoo and Mallika Joseph, Rise of China and India: Implications for the Asia Pacific, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. 2014

Amitabh Mattoo and Souresh Roy, India-Australia Relations in the Asian Century: Perspectives from India and Australia, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. 2014

Amitabh Mattoo and Happymon Jacob, New Directions in Indian Foreign Policy, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. 2014

Forthcoming titles Amitabh Mattoo, Deconstructing the Argumentative Indian, Melbourne University Press. 2014

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Occasional papersThe Fearless Nadia Occasional Papers are original essays commissioned by the Australia India Institute focusing on various aspects of the relationship between India and Australia. Fearless Nadia (1908-1996) was an Australian actress who began her career working in the Zarko circus and eventually became a celebrated star of Hindi films in India. Fearless Nadia brought a new joie de vivre and chutzpah to Indian cinema with her breathtaking ‘stunts’. The occasional papers seek to inject a similar audacity and creative dialogue into the relationship between India and Australia. This year’s Fearless Nadia Occasional Papers included:

India, Australia, and the Asian Century by Hamish McDonald

Skills Challenge: Australia and India’s Skills Training Needs by Prasenjit Kundu

Unfinished Business: Re-imagining the Australia-India Economic Relationship by Michael Moignard, and

China Rises, India Ponders: India’s “Look East” Policy Gathers Momentum by Harsh Pant

Task Force reports

In 2013, the reports of two A.I.I. Task Forces were released. In each case, the contents of the reports were widely reported in Australian and international media.

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Skills Challenge: Australia and India’s Skills Training Needs

Prasenjit Kundu

Winter 2013: Volume 1

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The Fearless Nadia Occasional Papers on India-Australia Relations

The Fearless Nadia Occasional papers are original essays commissioned by the Australia India Institute focusing on various aspects of the relationship between India and Australia. Fearless Nadia (1908-1996) was an Australian actress born Mary Ann Evans in Perth, Western Australia, who began her career working in the Zarko circus and eventually became a celebrated star of Hindi films in India. Fearless Nadia brought a new joie de vivre and chutzpah into Indian cinema with her breathtaking ‘stunts’. Her role in the renowned film Hunterwali, where she appeared dressed in boots and wielding a whip, became an iconic image in 1930s Bombay. The Occasional Papers series seeks to inject a similar audacity and creative dialogue into the relationship between India and Australia.

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Simi Garewal presenting the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture

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The Mahabharata of WomenThe Mahabharata of Women was performed in Melbourne in 2013 with sponsorship from the Australia India Institute. Directed by K. Madavane, the play puts a new twist on the pan-Indian epic, The Mahabharata, interpreting it from the perspective of the female characters. The play has been produced independently in India, Canada, France and Germany, in English, French and German. It had three successful performances in Melbourne.

Tagore’s Vision – The Poetry of India (Ballet)In 2013, the Australia India Institute joined forces with the Victorian College of the Arts to present a dance performance set to the poetry of Kelvin Brown and India’s iconic aesthete-intellectual, Rabindranath Tagore.

Artists’ retreatIn keeping with the Australia India Institute’s mission to engender greater interaction between Australia and India, the Institute conducted a 10-day artists retreat in Jaipur in January 2013 . Curated by Chaitanya Sambrani, it was intended to foster and intensify dialogue between Australian and Indian artists in the context of globalisation, to investigate ways in which tradition, media and materials may be mobilised in dealing with challenges and possibilities of cross-cultural dialogue, and to promote understanding and future collaborations. This retreat, built upon the success of the first at Red Hill in Australia in 2011, was modelled on an academic ‘colloquium of experts’; in this case, practicing artists with an interest in texts, and/or artists whose work relates to globalisation. The Institute will produce a publication which highlights the research and discussions that took place during the retreat.

“The Weight of Water” by Prajakta Potnis – Australia India Institute’s Permanent Collection

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Pushpamala N. “Bicycling Friends” 2011 from the series: Travelogue ( Exotic Views). Archival Inkjet print. Photography: Ajay Bhaskar. Cast: Pushpamala, N. and Shreelatha Rao Seshadri. Image size: 32” x 25.6”. Edition no: 3/6 – Australia India Institute’s Permanent Collection

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“Ark” by Gulammohammed Sheikh – Australia India Institute’s Permanent Collection

The following artists participated in the Jaipur 2013 Retreat:

Indian ArtistsDesmond LazaroVeer MunshiPushpamala NManisha ParekhJustin PonmanyPrajakta PotnisMithu SenGulammohammed SheikhGigi Scaria Parvathi Nayar

Australian ArtistsLyndell BrownJon CattapanKate DawCharles GreenFiona HallLynne Roberts-GoodwinHossein ValamaneshAngela ValamaneshSavanhdary Vongpoothorn

Jaipur Literature Festival; Kiran Bedi book launchAt the 2013 Jaipur Literature Festival in India’s Rajasthan state, A.I.I. Director, Amitabh Mattoo launched anti-corruption activist Kiran Bedi’s book Uprising 2011, which chronicles the largest mass mobilisation against corruption in India since independence. Co-authored with Pavan Choudary, the book provides an insider account of the movement led by charismatic social activist Anna Hazare in the period 2010-12. On launching the book, Professor Mattoo called on all Indians to unite for a better-governed India in which people felt secure. “Politics is far too important to leave to politicians…we must all act, and act now.”

Film Screening – Heat and DustIn 2013, Indians mourned the passing of one of their greatest modern storytellers, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. To mark this sad occasion, the Australia India Institute organised a screening of Heat and Dust, the 1983 motion picture that Jhabvala adapted from her own Booker-Prize winning novel of the same name. Directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, the film earned Jhabvala a BAFTA Award for best adapted screenplay. She would later win two Academy Awards for her screen adaptations of A Room with a View and Howard’s End, and was nominated for another Oscar for her adaptation of The Remains of the Day. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died in her home in New York City on 3 April 2013. She was 85.

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Biren Nanda: the Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture 2013The High Commissioner of India to Australia, Biren Nanda, delivered the annual Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture on the subject Indian Foreign Policy in a Globalised World at an event in Melbourne hosted by the Australia India Institute. High Commissioner Nanda’s lecture explored developments in India and the world that are shaping India’s foreign policy, and impacting upon its neighbours, the major powers, and middle-ranked powers like Australia. The 2013

Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture was compulsory listening for anyone interested in the rise of India, and Australia’s relations with an emerging superpower in the Asian Century.

Simi Garewal: Satyajit Ray Memorial LectureTo honour India’s greatest filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, the Australia India Institute welcomed to Melbourne Simi Garewal, one of Ray’s female leads, and an influential media figure in India. Garewal offered unique insights into India’s

Former Australian Secretary of Defence, Ric Smith, giving his Tiffin Talk “India: Reflections over 50 Years”

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‘Bollywood’ film industry which, in the wake of the shocking 2012 Delhi rape case, has been criticised for what some see as its patriarchal attitudes. In Garewal’s telling, the representation of women in Indian cinema reveals much about India’s modern history, and the shifting expectations placed upon women, both on screen and off.

John McCarthy: the Ambassador’s Journal series - Australia, Asia, and BeyondIn August 2013, former Australian High Commissioner to India, John McCarthy gave a penetrating analysis of the challenges facing Australia’s foreign policy, in the first of the new Ambassador’s Journal series of lectures hosted by the Australia India Institute. McCarthy spoke on Australia, Asia and Beyond - Some Thoughts for a New Government. Widely acknowledged as one of Australia’s most accomplished diplomats, McCarthy also served as Ambassador to Japan, Indonesia, and the United States. Speaking on the anniversary of India’s independence, he emphasised the importance of closer ties between Australia and India.

Greg Sheridan: the Australia India Institute/Observer Research Foundation annual oration Australia India Institute Distinguished Fellow and journalist Greg Sheridan gave the inaugural Australia India Institute/Observer Research Foundation annual oration in India in 2013. As foreign editor of The Australian newspaper, Sheridan is one of Australia’s most influential foreign policy commentators and a passionate advocate of closer ties between Australia and India.

Tiffin TalksIn 2013, the Australia India Institute continued its series of weekly lunchtime seminars to encourage exploration of issues of interest to both Australians and Indians. The seminars are called Tiffin Talks in honour of India’s famous tiffin carriers and the metal boxes in which they deliver lunches to millions of office workers.

The ‘tiffins’ encompassed a wide range of topics, with engaging speakers from academia, government, media and the business community, including visitors from interstate and overseas. The lunchtime forums have become a regular haunt for a loyal cohort of Melbournians interested in India.

Secretary of Defence, Ric Smith, former broadcaster and politician Maxine McKew, and author and opinion editor of The Age newspaper, Sushi Das. Past Tiffin Talks can be heard online as podcasts on the Institute’s website.

Speakers in 2013 included Australia’s former Secretary of Defence, Ric Smith, former broadcaster and politician Maxine McKew, and author and opinion editor of The Age newspaper, Sushi Das. Past Tiffin Talks can be heard online as podcasts on the Institute’s website.

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Kiran Bedi presenting at the Gondwanalandings: Voices of the Emerging Indian Diaspora Conference in Australia

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Speakers in 2013 included:

Robin Jeffrey The Great Indian Phone BookKevin Murray The Jewel in the Crown Rakesh Ranjan Urbanisation in India – challenges and opportunitiesBalaji Parthasarthy Reversing the flows of ideas? From local technologies for the

marginalised to new forms of global governanceGreg Sheridan Australia Among the Great Asian Powers - India, China, and the

United StatesAprajita Kashyap Natural Resource Issues in Australia, Brazil, and IndiaMaxine McKew Beyond the Lost Decade – a review of the Oz/India relationshipSanjay Chaturvedi Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic: Emerging Indian

PerspectivesArumugan Aramvalarthanathan Entrepreneurship and start-up ecosystemsSwaran Singh India and China: Rivals, Friends or Foes?Sushi Das Indian Diaspora in Australia and Racism; A Journalist’s PerspectiveSoumitri Varadarajan The Green Bus ProjectRoshni Narendran The caste system and women entrepreneurs in IndiaMarian Hadingham Muskaan’s keys to unlock educational disadvantage for children

from the slum communities of Bhopal, IndiaSusan George Decentralisation and Good Governance: The Unfinished AgendaBharat Ramakrishna Building Bridges: How community-based health is cultivating

communitiesHappymon Jacob From Pariah to Partner India & the International Nuclear OrderAnthony D’Costa How are Indians Positioned in Japan?Mike Moignard Unfinished Business: Re-imagining the Australia-India Economic

RelationshipCharles Green, Lyndell Brown The Hippy TrailSharda Ugra Going East: Australian cricket and the burning platformRobyn Eckersley India and the International Climate NegotiationsAndrew May A Thousand Oranges: colonial authority in the Khasi Hills of

North-East IndiaBrian Stoddart Cricket, Sport and the “New India”- a Soft Power Analysis of India’s

Global PositionGigi Scaria Dust: landscape of the futureRic Smith India - Reflections over 50 yearsPhil Ryan Middle-class India - The golf barometerNadeem Malik Failed State or Absence of State: The Case of PakistanChris Ogden India’s International Rise: Dynamics and TrajectoriesVarughese K George Elusive consensus: foreign policy debates in IndiaK.P. Sudheer Sustainable Water Management: Challenges in India

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Nandan Nilekani, Australia India Institute oration - India’s Transformation, the role of Information Technology“I’m going to speak today about technology and its role in India’s transformation. I think many people are familiar with the Indian software export story. Today India exports more than 50 billion dollars of IT and software around the world and it has transformed India, created millions of jobs and established India as a big player in the IT space.

But what I am going to talk about today is not so much about what we export, but how technology can be used as an instrument for transformation of a society. I think one of the things about information technology is that it’s ubiquitous, it’s cheap and it improves very fast. In some sense India, and other developing countries, have an opportunity to take advantage of this in ways that we could not take advantage in the previous industrial revolutions.

Now there are many definitions of an industrial revolution, but the one I use is one by an economist at North Western called Robert Gordon who said, basically, there’ve been three industrial revolutions. The first was between 1750 and 1830, which was the rise of the steam engines, locomotives, the railways, and the telegraph. The second industrial revolution as per his definition was between 1870 and 1900 which was the rise of electricity, the internal combustion engine, indoor plumbing and water, communications, chemicals, plastics, and a whole list of things that came about in that era, and in his definition the third industrial revolution is the one of computers, the web, smart phones, and all the things that we see here.

Now in some sense when the first two industrial revolutions happened, India was not an independent country, and therefore was not able to leverage those revolutions. But this third industrial revolution of information technology is happening at a time when the country is free and therefore it is something that can be uniquely used for development.

There are also other certain things about this technology that make it very, very viable. As I said thanks to Moore’s Law, computing power is becoming cheaper and cheaper, and more and more powerful day-by-day. The computer in your smart phone is equal in power to the computer in the early space programs. So you can see that things are becoming more and more powerful, and more and more accessible to everybody.

You can think of this as a rise of ubiquitous computing where everybody can have a device in his or her hand which is a smart device, a phone or a tablet. This is an era where you have an inexhaustible amount of computing storage and space on the cloud which you can access, and if you do so with your various Dropbox and Google drive technologies, then of course, you have an era of ubiquitous connectivity where everybody’s on the network.

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Now India has seen the first avalanche of that with the mobile phone, and the mobile phone in India has been a huge revolution. Today Indians have about 600 to 700 million mobile phones. The mobile phone tariffs in India are among the cheapest in the world and there has been a huge amount of innovation which has put connectivity into the hands of everyone so they can make basic voice calls, and in fact there’s a great book by (A.I.I. Distinguished Fellow) Robin Jeffrey and his colleague called Cell Phone Nation, which describes how India has adapted to the whole cell phone era.

But going beyond the cell phone, I think we are on the verge of another kind of revolution, because if you think about this technology, which is available ubiquitously, cheaply, and with broadband connectivity, it fundamentally provides ways to look at development. What we think, what we use to live, and how we bring change together. In some sense the project which I lead today, which is called as the Unique Identification Authority of India, or the Aadhar project, is one such example of how we are using modern technology to “leap frog”.

So what is the problem that we’re trying to solve in the Aadhar program? Aadhar means “foundation” and what it really is trying to solve is the problem of people not having acknowledgement of their existence by people and by the state, or lack of acknowledgement of their identity.

There are some states of India where more than half of the births are not registered at the time of birth. What this does is, you end up with a lot of people growing up without any identity documents for themselves, and the documents that we take for granted like a passport or a drivers licence are actually there with very few people. You know, out of India’s population of 1.2 billion people, something like only 50 million people have a passport, which is only 5 per cent of the population. Only something like 30 million pay taxes which is 3 per cent of the population. Maybe 150 million have driver’s licences, about 15 per cent of the population. But fundamentally all these traditional things which we take for granted as identity are really there for a very narrow part of the population. They have this huge, you know, mass of people who don’t often have an ID.

Just a simple concept of a number gives you so much flexibility. So why is this important? Because using these tools, using these capabilities you can transform the way you deliver things. You can transform the way you deliver financial benefits, you can transform the way you deliver non-financial benefits. You can transform the way people get access.”

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Peter Varghese, the Australia-India Institute oration - Our Journey with India“India was in my blood long before it was ever on my mind. My parents were both born and grew up in Kerala, in the south of India; members of a Syrian Christian community which insists, probably correctly, that it dates back to St Thomas the Apostle. My parents, both now deceased, were unusual by any measure, and by the measure of their times they were extraordinary.

They were strong-willed risk takers. They both went from village to university, decided they would marry for love, not by arrangement, left India soon after their marriage to make careers as teachers in Kenya. And most extraordinary of all took a family of nine children to a country across the world where they knew not a soul and for which they were given only a two-year visa.

That country was Australia in 1964. The visa was for two years because the White Australia policy was still in place and my father, by then a senior principal in the Kenyan school system, came under a special program for distinguished Asians.

So my connection with India is once removed. I have been a culinary Indian all my life and religion played a much bigger part in our upbringing than the culture of Kerala. All of us were taught from an early age to think for ourselves and to believe that there was nothing to which we could not aspire. The result was a clan of argumentative Australians.

When I went to India in 2009 as Australia’s High Commissioner I did so primarily for professional, rather than personal reasons. My view then, as now, is that for an Australian diplomat there could be no more exciting an appointment than to India. The reason was simple: India was the only big relationship which still had so much room for growth, which meant that a High Commissioner could make a real difference. With Australia’s other large, and much more established relationships, a Head of Mission may be able to shape ten or twenty per cent at the margin. But with India, it seemed to me, that number was more likely to be closer to forty to fifty per cent…

The Australia India relationship can be seen in three distinct phases: The period of empire, the decades between Indian independence and the opening of the Indian economy in the early nineties and the years since then.

I am not including in these three phases our geological connection because if you go back 300 million years, Australia and India were literally joined at the geological hip before continental drift separated us.

The days of empire, from first settlement in Australia in 1788 to Indian independence in 1947, were actually remarkably close.

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In the early decades of our penal settlement, India was arguably our largest trading partner, linked through the infrastructure of the British Empire and sustained by a network of army officers and officials who made lives in both countries. The Sydney-Calcutta sea link was a vital supply chain.

This was however for the most part a connection with India, not Indians. When the relationship with Indians in an independent India did commence, it was narrowly focused, although many of the personal links continued.

Seen from a state perspective, the stunted nature of the Australia-India relationship from the late forties to the early nineties should not surprise us. For the first four decades after India’s independence we inhabited different worlds. Our hard interests, strategic and economic, rarely intersected.

India’s economy went down the path of self-sufficiency, not global trade. Strategically we inhabited different universes. India was a leading light of the Non-Aligned Movement, comfortable with the high moral tone of its foreign policy. Australia was a paid up member of the western alliance, a staunch ally of the US.

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Today it all looks so different. India is in the top bracket of our international relations. We have committed to a strategic partnership. The economic relationship is booming. Our geo- strategic interests are converging. We are finding more common ground in multilateral fora, a welcome if still nascent change from the days when differences over trade and non-proliferation soured a generation of Australian and Indian diplomats towards each other.

And the rapidly growing Indian diaspora in Australia – now just shy of 400,000 – is forging links which will add much-needed depth and texture to the people-to-people relationship.

The turning point in all of this was India’s 1992 decision, led by Narasimha Rao and crafted by Manmohan Singh, to open its economy; a move which will be judged by history as every bit as significant as Deng Xiao Ping’s decision to open the Chinese economy.

The opening of the Indian economy did what decades of diplomatic endeavour could not: it put India on a glide path which would see it redefine its economic and strategic interests and in the process create a convergence of interests between our two countries which has a long way to run.”

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Biren Nanda, The Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture - Indian Foreign Policy in a Globalised World“As I speak of the changing nature of our engagement with the international community, it is but natural that I should refer to relations between Australia and India. India and Australia have several commonalities including the shared values of a democratic system, a free press, an independent judiciary and a vibrant civil society. These elements have served as a solid foundation for close cooperation and multi-faceted interaction between the two countries. Today it is on the basis of shared interests that India and Australia are witnessing a robust development in their bilateral ties. We have established institutional platforms for furthering cooperation in diverse areas like foreign affairs, defence, education, science and technology and resources.

High-level visits on both sides are promoting engagement across a wide range of areas and creating new opportunities for both countries. Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s state visit to India in October last year was an outstanding success with substantive outcomes that have contributed significantly to the agenda of our strategic partnership. We have shared perspectives on global challenges like international terrorism and are partners in regional cooperation in the context of our dialogue partnership with the ASEAN and participation in the East Asia Summit.

As our bilateral ties expand we have a growing interest in the maintenance of security of sea-lanes of communication in our region. As the centre of gravity of the world economy shifts to Asia and the Indian Ocean region, India and Australia have the potential to cooperate more closely in areas like combating piracy, disaster management, food and energy security and the prevention of drug trafficking. We welcome the white paper on Australia in the Asian Century and its emphasis on building relationships with Asian countries including India.

There has been a significant expansion of trade and investment between our two countries. The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement negotiations which we have embarked upon will strengthen institutional connectivity and accelerate the rapid expansion of our commercial ties. We expect that the conclusion of the Agreement will expand the base of merchandised trade, remove non-tariff barriers, facilitate investment and address behind the border restrictions to trade. We seek to achieve some correction in the adverse balance of trade in goods and services with Australia. In services we seek greater Mode IV access and Mutual Recognition Agreements.

As the Indian economy grows, the global situation presents a mixed picture. On one hand, we are growing at a healthy pace, increasing our share in global trade and output. On the other hand, many obstacles have to be overcome if we are to sustain rapid growth in the years ahead. Particularly important are the supply side constraints of the Indian economy’s narrative of catch-up growth including energy, water, food, infrastructure and not in the least education and skills training. It is no surprise, therefore, that these supply side constraints are the driving force behind the rapid growth in ties between India and Australia.

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There is much that India can gain from interaction and exchanges with Australia in terms of best practices, improved capabilities and… resources. Australia is a major and growing source for imports of gold, copper, coal and diamonds for the Indian economy. A number of Indian companies have invested in the resources and manufacturing sectors in Australia.

We have welcomed the decision of the Australian Government to allow exports of uranium to India. Nuclear power generation is an important element in India’s efforts to achieve energy security and to reduce the carbon footprint of the economy. Australian companies possess expertise, technology and products in a number of areas of interest to India. They are increasingly looking to opportunities in telecom, logistics, steel production technologies, mining technologies, energy exploration and infrastructure projects. Australian investments in India are making significant contributions to the economic relationship between the two countries.

Australia and India have a unique opportunity to be partners in progress in the Asian Century provided they equip themselves with the awareness, knowledge and the tools that would enable them to do so.”

‘Chai and Conversation’ continued at the Australia India Institute in 2013, providing an avenue for discussions with and introductions to high profile guests and visitors. The sessions are a roundtable event with a select number of guests enabling free intellectual discussions in a private forum. Some high profile guests in 2013 included Nik Senapati, Rio Tinto India Managing Director, Rory Medcalf, Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute and Associate Director of AII’s Sydney Node, Rajshree Chandra, Associate Professor from the University of Delhi, and Robin Jeffrey, author of The Great Indian Phone Book.

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Workshops, Seminars and Events

Jan 30-Feb 1 Australia India Youth Dialogue in Melbourne and SydneyFeb 11 Indian parliamentarians visitFeb 20 Chai and Conversation – “What lies ahead for India in 2013” with Rory MedcalfFeb 25 “If Gandhi Were Alive Today” – oration by Ela GandhiMar 15 Chai and Conversation – “The Great Indian Media Bazaar” with students and faculty

members of Indiana University (USA). Mar 20 Indian Ocean Security Task Force launch – Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign

Affairs, the Hon. Richard MarlesMar 21 Chai and Conversation – with top Indian TV interviewer Karan ThaparMar 23 “Tagore’s Vision: Poetry of India” – dance and poetry performance with VCAMar 25 Chai and Conversation – “The Indian Resources Sector” with Nik SenapatiMar 25 Signing of MOU for the ICCR Visiting Chair by Indian Consul General and acting

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Engagement) Professor Simon EvansApr 17 A.I.I. - Lowy India-Australia poll launchApr 18 Heat and Dust - film screeningApr 23-26 “Discovering the Deccan” lecture seriesApr 30 Reception in honour of the Hon. Louise Asher MP May 6 Science Technology Task Force launch with Chief Scientist Ian ChubbMay 7 Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture: “The Representation of Women in Indian Cinema” by

Simi Garewal

Launch of the India-Australia Poll 2013. [L-R] Geraldine Doogue AO, Neville Roach AO, Christopher Kremmer and Mark Laurie

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May 16 Australia India Institute annual oration “Our Journey with India” by DFAT Secretary Peter Varghese

May 20 A.I.I. - Lowy India poll launchMay 27 Launch of Indian Ocean Task Force Report in IndiaJun 3 ‘Young Parliamentarians’ visitJun 5 Friends of Asha receptionJul 10 Indian Education Minister oration – Pallam RajuJul 23 State of the Nation: India - MelbourneJul 25 State of the Nation: India – SydneyJul 30 VIDS Knowledge ExchangeJul 31 Nuclear negotiator Venkatash Varma lunchAug 13 AEF National Conference dinner with Asia FoundationAug 15 “Ambassador’s Journal” – oration by John McCarthyAug 21 CMC Vellore Director Sunil Chandy visit and dinnerSep 17 Australian Friends of Asha Slums receptionSep 25 “An Evening with Kiran Bedi” – Biopic screening and Q&A with Kiran BediSep 25-27 Conference: “Gondwanalandings: Voices of the Emerging Indian Diaspora in

Australia”Oct 2 Zubin Mehta conferral of Honorary Doctorate, Government HouseOct 15 “India’s Transformation: The Role of Information Technology” oration by Nandan

NilekaniOct 17 Dinner reception in honour of Meenakshi GopinathNov 10-13 FICCI Higher Education Summit

Dec 11 Chai and Conversation with Rajshree Chandra

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A.I.I. in the NewsThe Australia India Institute was consistently engaged with the media both in Australia and India throughout 2013. The Director, Professor Amitabh Mattoo, was called on regularly to comment on issues of interest to both countries. Distinguished guests and speakers hosted by the Institute in 2013 attracted an unprecedented level of media coverage in national print, radio, television, and online news media

5/01/13 Daily News and Analysis Over 100 foreign educational institutes in Vibrant Gujarat SummitJan-13 Indian Link Flashback 2012Jan-13 MUSSE Globally focused undergraduates head to India5/01/13 Indian Voice Australian students get a taste of India10/01/13 Indian Link University of Sydney Co-operative co-existence (Shashi Tharoor)16/01/13 News Students aim to challenge stereotypes on Indian study tour16/01/13 Hindustan Times No real business plan16/01/13 Campus Daily Students aim to challenge stereotypes on Indian study tour23/01/13 Greater Kashmir Omar irked over ‘daft’ advisory24/01/13 The Australian Youth holds key to vibrant Australia-India relations1/02/13 UNSW Kevin Jackson’s Theatre Diary1/02/13 The Interpreter Australia India Youth Dialogue7/02/13 South Asia Times Rajiv Shukla leads parliamentary mission to Australia12/02/13 South Asia Times Ela Gandhi Public Lecture19/02/13 IBN Live Indian Ocean Security Task Force Maritime Security Asia to be launched in Australia SIFY News 25/02/13 ZeeNews Death penalty not a solution to end violence against women: Ela Gandhi26/02/13 The Australian Education misses the moral lessons: Ela Gandhi11/03/13 The Australian Brendan O’Connor inflames row over ‘unfair’ 457 visas13/03/13 MUSSE Gandhi’s granddaughter visits the University20/03/13 The Australian Australia and India “could lead region”20/03/13 dfat.gov.au Launch of the Australia India Institute Indian Ocean study20/03/13 Deccan Chronicle Nidhish receives PhD scholarship20/03/13 ABC Australia, India need to do more on Indian Ocean: report20/03/13 XinhauNet China has legitimate role in Indo-Pacific security: report25/03/13 Indian Express Meet the Winners (VIDS)26/03/13 The Hindu ICCR inks pact with Melbourne University to set up chair in Indian Studies28/03/13 The Malay Mail Bollywood wheels roll into MelbourneApr-13 Bharat Times Tagore’s Vision8/04/13 The Asian Age Taming the Dragon9/04/13 Sydhwaney.com Tagore comes alive in Victoria10/04/13 Theatre People The Mahabharata of Women

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10/04/13 The Age India beyond the clichés: we’ve got some catching up to do10/04/13 Sydney Morning Herald India beyond the clichés: we’ve got some catching up to do11/04/13 SBS Punjabi Mahabharata of Women12/04/13 The Australian No Passage to India17/04/13 Sydney Morning Herald Bruised reputation hasn’t recovered17/04/13 The Hindu It’s not that complicated, mate17/04/13 The Australian Most Indians agree there’s more to our relationship than cricket17/04/13 Financial Review Indians warm to Australia despite tensions17/04/13 The Age Indians believe student safety just not cricket17/04/13 ABC RN New poll finds Australia well-liked in India17/04/13 ABC AM Australian education still highly regarded in India: survey17/04/13 The Age Indian student worries persist17/04/13 Senator Bob Carr Survey confirms strength of Australia-India ties (press release)17/04/13 Herald Sun Indians regard Australian education highly: poll17/04/13 The Interpreter Poll: What Indians think of Australia17/04/13 SBS Indian opinions towards Australia warm: study17/04/13 NZweek Indians think highly of Australian education, safety concerns continue: poll17/04/13 The Conversation It’s not just cricket: Indians have their say on Australia17/04/13 Financial Express Australia re-emerges as preferred country for Indian students: poll17/04/13 Invest in Australia Survey confirms strength of Australia-India ties17/04/13 The Times of India Australia still a favourite overseas destination for Indians: poll17/04/13 Deccan Herald Indian students’ safety in Australia still a concern: poll India’s citizens think highly of Australian education, safety concerns continue: poll 17/04/13 Bernama18/04/13 Hindustan Times Most Indians still favour Australia as study destination: poll18/04/13 The Interpreter Indians trust their media: why?18/04/13 India EDU News 75 per cent Indians feel Australia good place to study - poll 201318/04/13 The Hindu Timeless tale of anguish20/04/13 The Australian Ambivalent about Oz2/05/13 Herald Sun Foreign workers on 457 visas could undergo “genuineness” test2/05/13 Sydney Morning Herald McKew says Labor’s 457 visa stance ‘a political stunt’ Canberra Times 2/05/13 The Telegraph McKew swipes at 457 visa reform The Australian 2/05/13 The Economic Times Tightening of working visa norms in Oz ‘political stunt’: Ex-MP

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2/05/13 The Australian Foreign Workers on 457 visas could undergo ‘genuineness’ test3/05/13 The Australian Visa scheme ‘not plagued by more than 10,000 rorts’10/05/13 News Track India Australia and India engaging on corporate affairs16/05/13 The Australian Help with Hindi is at hand16/05/13 Herald Sun We don’t get India, they don’t get us16/05/13 Adelaide Now We don’t get India, they don’t get us17/05/13 The Observer Paper calls for Hindi to be included in Australian curriculum17/05/13 The Age DFAT boss warns against pushing India Sydney Morning Herald Border Mail 17/05/13 ABC Radio Australia Protracted Aust, India relations ‘strengthening’, says top diplomat17/05/13 ZeeNews Patience key to India-Australia ties: Varghese20/05/13 Financial Review Call for unis to bolster Indian ties20/05/13 The Hindu How the world looks from India20/05/13 The Age China’s rise fuels mistrust among many Indians Sydney Morning Herald 20/05/13 The Indian Express Australia India Institute calls for Hindi to be included in Australian curriculum20/05/13 The Indian Express 83% Indians view China as major security threat: poll20/05/13 India Real Time Indians rank China a threat, survey finds20/05/13 Daily News & Analysis Indians like the United States most and Pakistan least: India poll survey20/05/13 ABC Radio Australia New poll reveals Indian ‘hopes and fears’20/05/13 The Economic Times Indians sceptical of China’s policy towards Asia, India: poll20/05/13 Firstpost India poll 2013: Indians are worried about water, energy, and China20/05/13 News Track India Lowy India Poll 2013 study: 83 per cent Indians consider China a security threat21/05/13 The Australian A chequered view of Chinese colours Li’s Indian travails21/05/13 Business Standard Dialogue between Indian and Aus youth must for robust ties21/05/13 Radio Australia China a security threat to India, says survey21/05/13 Foreign Policy Wisdom of the crowd21/05/13 News Track India Annual report of A.I.I. - Australia India Youth Business Standard Dialogue Partnership launched22/05/13 Silicon India News Indians sceptical of China’s Policy towards Asia, India: poll National fear of the dragon: Poll reveals majority of Indians are apprehensive of China22/05/13 Daily News & Analysis Report calls for Hindi to be included in Australia curriculum22/05/13 Matters India Youth to take India Australia ties further22/05/13 The Australian Chief scientist Ian Chubb sees fall in research

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22/05/13 Real Clear World A deep mistrust colours India-China ties23/05/13 The Asian Age Time for serious talks with China23/05/13 Ooska News Water shortage among top threats to India’s security, survey finds27/05/13 The Diplomat What Indians think about China7/06/13 Punjab Newsline Harsimrat Badal seeks cooperation from Australian govt for safeguarding interests of Punjabi diaspora8/06/13 Brisbane Times Passage from India widens to a highway13/06/13 Financial Review Australia could help India modernise its economy24/06/13 ABC Radio Australia Australian students embark on internship in India26/06/13 The Australian Internship earns Mark Powles a passage to India2/07/13 ABC 774 Bruce Esplin, Robin Jeffrey, Carillo Gantner8/07/13 South Asia Times Oz warned losing India edu market8/07/13 The Satellite Report says TAFE should deliver service in India Northern Rivers Echo 8/07/13 Business Standard Aus TAFEs may miss out on big share of India’s market: study10/07/13 The Australian Push for VET centre of excellence in India10/07/13 Business Standard Indian students present research work in Australia10/07/13 Business Standard India, Australia welcome signing of MoU to promote agriculture, retail, telecom skills17/07/13 The Australian India calls for research alliances19/07/13 Daily News and Analysis India poll 2013 reveals Indians are optimistic about economy, see Pakistan as major threat, and think corruption is holding us back20/07/13 DAWN.com Bureaucratic, military-level talks urged with India22/07/13 Business Recorder Jinnah Institute arranges 12th round of Chaophraya Dialogue30/07/13 TwoCircles.net Former Pak’s Ambassador to US, Sherry Rehman to speak at Jamia7/08/13 ZeeNews Indian-origin candidates in fray in Australia elections8/08/13 Australia Network News Australia urged to put more effort into its trade relationship with India8/08/13 The Economic Times Australia asked to put more efforts in trade ties with India12/08/13 ABC Radio Australia Australia urged to improve trade and business links with India12/08/13 ABC RN Australian agriculture urged to look at India19/08/13 Business Line Narendra Modi could give a new sense of direction: Ex-Australian envoy19/08/13 ZeeNews Modi could give a new sense of direction: Ex-Oz envoy20/08/13 NDTV Narendra Modi could give a new sense of direction: former Australian envoy6/09/13 Business Standard Australia eyes mega Indian infrastructure projects

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10/09/13 The Economic Times India-Australia ties likely to get boost under PM-elect Tony Abbott11/09/13 National Journal Australian election seen likely to speed talks with India on uranium deal12/09/13 ABC Radio Australia India tweaks the dragon’s tail17/09/13 The Conversation Back to the drawing board as ‘shining’ India stumbles25/09/13 IB Traveller Tourism Australia: What makes Indians ‘repeat travel’ and what scares them off30/09/13 The Age Big stakes in Indian numbers game1/10/13 World Politics Review Global Insider: Australia seeks assurances from India in advance of nuclear trade deal10/10/13 The Age Exhibition captures beauty of salt desert14/10/13 The Economic Times One out of two Indians to have Aadhaar by mid-2014: Nandan Nilekani16/10/13 ZeeNews Considering all my options: Nandan Nilekani on joining politics16/10/13 FirstPost Half of Indians to have Aadhaar number by mid-2014: Nilekani16/10/13 FirstPost Aadhaar will solve the problem of non-existent identity, says Nilekani16/10/13 The Economic Times Aadhaar example of using technology to leapfrog: Nandan Nilekani16/10/13 The Hindu Nandan Nilekani non-committal on joining politics16/10/13 The Indian Express Aadhaar example of using technology to The Times of India leapfrog: Nandan Nilekani ZeeNews Press Trust of India 16/10/13 Business Standard New Australian government flags better ties with India 17/10/13 SBS Massive digital identification project in India17/10/13 Hindustan Times Aadhaar will help the poor: UIDAI chief Nilekani17/10/13 The Conversation In Conversation with Nandan Nilekani18/10/13 The Times of India Honorary degree to LSR principal Meenakshi 19/10/13 The Australian Gift for IT holds out best hope for Indian miracle31/10/13 The Diplomatist Start of a new innings: Australia changes guard11/11/13 The Australian History of shared sacrifice unites India, Australia19/11/13 The Times of India Time for Canberra and New Delhi to establish a new partnership10/12/13 The Age Start of something extraordinary in India10/12/13 SMH Start of something extraordinary in India13/12/13 The Hindu Caring for the Crafts

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The Australia India Institute leadership team engaged throughout the year in a broad range of dialogues and policy forums.

Trilateral Dialogue on Indian Ocean (TDIO)The A.I.I. Director, Amitabh Mattoo attended this dialogue hosted by the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi in partnership with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). Senior foreign policy and government officials, and scholars from Australia, India and Indonesia took part. The dialogue was followed by closed door, track two talks between the three countries.

Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs.A.I.I. Director, Amitabh Mattoo participated in the 60th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. The conference, themed “Dialogue, Disarmament, and Regional and Global Security”, took place in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2013.

The conference brought together approximately 200 leading current and former policy makers, scientists, and other opinion shapers from around the world to explore creative solutions to some of the world’s most challenging problems. Mattoo was elected to the council and executive committee of the organisation.

Australian Leadership Retreat 2013, Hayman Island, Great Barrier ReefAustralia’s premier gathering for business, political, academic and community leaders is a forum that promotes the fearless exchange of ideas among domestic and international leaders. The retreat has built its formidable reputation on substance over celebrity, and a high-powered roll call of speakers and attendees. The retreat sets, rather than follows, national agendas through open, robust, and confidential debate, with a deliberate focus on the long term. The theme for 2013 was Opportunity from Disruption. The Chair of the A.I.I. Board and the A.I.I. Director spoke at and participated in the retreat.

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Lancet Commission on Adolescent HealthIn 2013, the Australia India Institute’s Director, Amitabh Mattoo, served as a University of Melbourne Commissioner on the new Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Well-being. The Commission also included academics from Columbia University, and from University College London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, working across disciplines to explore a “green-field site” in the areas of health and development. It is the first time the University of Melbourne has participated in a commission convened by the prestigious international medical journal.

Symposium on Plain Packaging at the International Conference on Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: The Endgame for TobaccoAmitabh Mattoo chaired a panel at this important international conference. The conference, organised by the Public Health Foundation of India and HRIDAY, in partnership with India’s

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) and others, deliberated on a range of ‘endgame’ ideas that have been proposed to accelerate tobacco control. The Conference, which brought together 23 Indian and international organisations as partners, heard more than 600 speakers and delegates from 52 countries, including Health Ministers from India and Jamaica, the Director-General of WHO, Margaret Chan, India’s parliamentary opposition leader Sushma Swaraj, and other MPs. More than 200 abstracts on eight themes were presented over two days.

Jaipur Literary Festival; Kiran Bedi book launchOn the opening day of Jaipur’s Literature Festival in 2013, Professor Mattoo officially launched anti-corruption activists Kiran Bedi and Pawan Choudhary’s inspiring book Uprising 2011. The book, a collection of stories, reports, and cartoons, discusses the work of social activist Anna Hazare and the ‘second war of independence’ (against corruption) that Bedi led from 2010 to 2012.

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From L-R Bernard Philip, Deputy High Commissioner to India, Ric Smith, former Secretary of the Department of Defence and Rory Medcalf, Associate Director Australia India Institute, NSW Node

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Sydney Node, the University of New South Wales Since early 2013, the University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) has intensified its India engagement, stepping up the work of its Node of the Australia India Institute with the appointment of former diplomat Rory Medcalf as Associate Director and Georgia Blérot as Executive Officer.

Highlights of the year included the Gandhi oration, held on Martyr’s Day, 30 January, and in 2013, given by eminent jurist Michael Kirby.

On 2 October, in memory of the Mahatma and his message, and commemorating the anniversary of his birth, UNSW hosted a public ceremony and panel discussion on Gandhi Jayanti. Parliamentarians, business figures, community leaders and scholars gathered to hear members of the Australia India Youth Dialogue talk about Gandhi’s relevance to young Indians and Australians today.

UNSW hosted a visit by India’s Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr M. M. Pallam Raju. It hosted delegations of senior Indian officials and government scientists to discuss bilateral cooperation in science and technology, energy and green materials. Together with the Chairman of A.I.I., the Node hosted a dinner for Nandan Nilekani, with distinguished guests including Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. It also hosted visits by senior officials in education and water management from the Government of Maharashtra, and supported wider A.I.I. participation in the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas

(Overseas Indians Day) conference in Sydney in November. The Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, Professor Fred Hilmer, and the Node Associate Director both spoke at the conference.

The A.I.I. Node at UNSW has worked to support the efforts of the NSW Government in engaging India, with senior UNSW staff joining Premier Barry O’Farrell on his visit to Maharashtra and Gujarat in December 2013. It will look to deepen collaboration with the NSW Government and these dynamic Indian states in 2014.

La Trobe University Node.In 2013, La Trobe University continued to develop and consolidate the teaching of Hindi and, with the support of its Vice-Chancellor, secured an ongoing lectureship in Hindi and South Asian Studies. The position has been filled by Dr Ian Woolford, formerly at Cornell University, who took up his post in January 2014. La Trobe has also established a new university-wide centre called La Trobe Asia, which will oversee all aspects of its engagement with Asia, enhancing its long tradition of expertise and interest in the region. In doing so, La Trobe is working to fulfil its mission to create and disseminate knowledge in a world increasingly shaped by Asia’s states and societies. Working in and engaging with India is seen as a crucial part of La Trobe Asia’s activities in the coming years. Professor Nick Bisley has been appointed as the new centre’s Executive Director

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Board of the Australia India Institute in 2013The Australia India Institute’s Board comprises a Chair, Vice-Chancellor or nominee, the A.I.I. Director or nominee, Department of Education nominee, La Trobe University nominee, University of New South Wales nominee, a representative of the University of Melbourne appointed by Council, the Chief Executive Officer, Asialink or nominee, and up to two people co-opted annually by the Board. The Board exercises governance oversight of the operations of the Institute, formulates an annual budget for the Institute approved by Council, and sets the strategic direction of the Institute, including consideration and approval of its strategic plan and annual program of activities. It also monitors the performance of the Institute with regard to any conditions placed upon grants from the Commonwealth of Australia or any other sources.

The Australia India Institute Board met four times in 2013: ➢ 4 March ➢ 18 June ➢ 2 September ➢ 25 November

The 2013 Board members were:

Robert Johanson – Chair, Deputy Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and Chairman of the Melbourne University Fund

Susan Elliott – Deputy Chair, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Engagement, the University of Melbourne

Susan Bennett - General Manager, International Education and Science Division, Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.

James Donald – Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW

Julia Fraser - Associate Director – Asialink & Co-Director – Asia Australia Mental Health

Amitabh Mattoo – Director, Australia India Institute

John Rosenberg - Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University.

Australia India Institute StaffAmitabh Mattoo: Director

Rory Medcalf: Associate Director – Sydney Node

Anthony D’Costa: Chair of Contemporary Indian Studies

Ashok Malik: Australia India Institute/Observer Research Foundation Chair

Shanka De Silva: Operations Manager

Aliya Elariss: Project Co-ordinator (India)

Elise Fagone: Events, Programme and Marketing Manager

Tess Gross: Executive Assistant to the Director

Alexandra Hansen: Media and Communications Officer

Shibu Kitroo: Operations and Finance Officer

Souresh Roy: Research Assistant to the Director

Marianna Sarris: Operations and Projects Officer

Simone Traglia: Events and Project Officer

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PatronThe Hon Alex Chernov AC QC, Governor of Victoria

Distinguished FellowsMani Shankar Aiyar

Deidre Coleman

Suranjan Das

Swapan Dasgupta

Gareth Evans

Charles Green

Robin Jeffrey

Sunjoy Joshi

Maxine McKew

Rob Moodie

Ashis Nandy

Linda Rosenman

Greg Sheridan

Brian Stoddart

Shashi Tharoor

FellowsFarrah Ahmed

Ravi Bhatia

Howard Brasted

Lance Brennan

David Brewster

Richard Cashman

Robyn Davidson

Peter Deutschmann

Bina Fernandez

Pavan Gandhok

Meg Gurry

Marlene Kanga

Christopher Kremmer

Wayne Lewis

Jane Lu

Hector Malano

Jim Masselos

Michael Moignard

Michael Pearson

Fazal Rizvi

Dennis Rumley

Samir Saran

Kalvinda K Shields

Christopher Snedden

Pradeep Taneja

Pera Wells

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Attached are the income and expenditure financial statements of the Australia India Institute from 2008 to 31 December 2013 as prepared by Finance - Australia India Institute and for 2012 and 2013 audited and certified by the Senior Financial/Operational Auditor – Internal Audit - University of Melbourne. From 2008 to December 2010 the financial report was certified by Chief Finance Officer, University of Melbourne and published in the 2010 annual report.

The Government funds (including AGDE), State and Local Government Grants (DSDBI), University contributions and other income were expended for the purpose they were provided in the Conditions of Grant and the Institute has been in compliance with all contract, agreement and pertinent legislation.

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Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013General operating / Aii Project

Fed Gov DIICCSRTEUoM Project / Account number : 95576 95579Actual as of end 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2012 2013OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous Year)

- 5,503,789 4,389,266 3,900,270 760,385 - 1,507,152

INCOME - - - - - - - Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding / Financial Assistance

5,506,000 - 2,600,000 - - 1,500,000 -

State & Local Government Grants - - - - - - - Other Grant Income (PCS) - - 137,580 77,715 - - - Investment Income - - - - - 7,152 36,067 Non Course Fees & Services - - - - - - - Professional Services / Consulting and Contracted Services

- - - - - - -

Other Income (GCP) - - - - - - - Fee for Service Income - 604 214,407 -93,142 1,398 - - Asset Disposal - - 900 59 841 - - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM)

- - - - - - -

Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses recovery)

- - - - - - -

Total Income 5,506,000 604 2,952,887 -15,368 2,239 1,507,152 36,067

EXPENDITURE - - - - - - - Salary Costs Permanent - 371,570 738,837 283,868 354,602 - - Salary Costs Casual - 25,989 47,028 142,774 54,697 - - Salary Expenditure Total - 397,559 785,865 426,642 409,299 - - Grant Expense - 25,000 529,522 261,761 72,500 - - Finance Related Costs (Tax) 534 5,090 39,157 102,922 11,259 - - Student Support - 2,158 21,828 20,828 - - - Consumable Goods and Services 430 42,645 257,659 385,786 52,681 - - Expert Services - 458,049 738,929 537,966 42,598 - - Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes

1,247 167,311 867,173 1,164,253 40,463 - -

Expensed Assets - 2,985 31,424 32,006 6,562 - - Infrastructure Related Expenses - 2,322 134,946 183,505 57,848 - - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost)

- 12,008 35,380 8,848 69,415 - -

Non Salary Expenditure 2,211 717,568 2,656,018 2,697,875 353,326 - - Total Expenditure 2,211 1,115,127 3,441,883 3,124,517 762,625 - - Net Surplus/(Deficit) 5,503,789 -1,114,523 -488,996 -3,139,886 -760,385 1,507,152 36,067 CLOSING BALANCE 5,503,789 4,389,266 3,900,270 760,385 -1 1,507,152 1,543,220

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Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013General operating / Aii Project

Vic Gov DSDBIUoM Project / Account number : 95581

Trust Account95581

Trust Account95583

Actual as of end 2012 2013 2013OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous Year) - 1,554,990 -

INCOME - - - Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding / Financial Assistance - - - State & Local Government Grants 1,500,000 - - Other Grant Income (PCS) - - - Investment Income 54,990 -26,803 1,543 Non Course Fees & Services - - - Professional Services / Consulting and Contracted Services - - - Other Income (GCP) - - - Fee for Service Income - - - Asset Disposal - - - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM) - -750,000 750,000 Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses recovery) - - - Total Income 1,554,990 -776,803 751,543

EXPENDITURE - - - Salary Costs Permanent - - 47,635 Salary Costs Casual - - 5,577 Salary Expenditure Total - - 53,212 Grant Expense - - 70,195 Finance Related Costs (Tax) - - 36,366 Student Support - - 5,307 Consumable Goods and Services - - 106,971 Expert Services - - 324,657 Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes - - 394,374 Expensed Assets - - -2,563 Infrastructure Related Expenses - - 37,196 Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost) - - - Non Salary Expenditure - - 972,504 Total Expenditure - - 1,025,716 Net Surplus/(Deficit) 1,554,990 -776,803 -274,173 CLOSING BALANCE 1,554,990 778,187 -274,173

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Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013University of Melbourne Other

IncomeUoM Project / Account number : 006-88-

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Actual as of end 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2013OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous Year)

- 875,308 600,454 327,415 903,986 -2,059 -

INCOME - - - - - - - Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding / Financial Assistance

- - - - - - 660,696

State & Local Government Grants - - - - - - - Other Grant Income (PCS) - - - - - - 21,000 Investment Income - - - - - - - Non Course Fees & Services - - - - - - - Professional Services / Consulting and Contracted Services

- - - - - - 24,831

Other Income (GCP) - - - - - - - Fee for Service Income - - - - - - 3,150 Asset Disposal - - - - - - 318 Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM)

1,000,000 - - 850,000 - - -

Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses recovery)

- - - - - - -

Total Income 1,000,000 - - 850,000 - - 709,995

EXPENDITURE - - - - - - - Salary Costs Permanent 110,386 188,381 193,643 200,504 779,594 - 589,048 Salary Costs Casual - 5,205 - 9,824 24,667 - 97,818 Salary Expenditure Total 110,386 193,586 193,643 210,328 804,261 - 686,866 Grant Expense - - - - - - - Finance Related Costs (Tax) 173 4,965 883 58 -677 - - Student Support - - - - - - - Consumable Goods and Services 4,545 4,658 7,018 -4,142 -738 - - Expert Services 903 10,394 40,522 34,277 11,141 - - Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes

8,685 58,803 9,423 18,024 389 - -

Expensed Assets - 2,444 19,137 510 491 - - Infrastructure Related Expenses - 4 2,413 14,374 91,177 2,298 - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost)

- - - - - - -

Non Salary Expenditure 14,306 81,268 79,396 63,101 101,784 2,298 - Total Expenditure 124,692 274,854 273,039 273,429 906,045 2,298 686,866 Net Surplus/(Deficit) 875,308 -274,854 -273,039 576,571 -906,045 -2,298 23,129 CLOSING BALANCE 875,308 600,454 327,415 903,986 -2,059 -4,356 23,129

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University In-Kind Contribution Report 2011 - 31st December 2012Estimate

2008Estimate

2009Estimate

2010Estimate

2011Actual 2012

Actual 2013

CHARGESOverhead Charges 1 42,346 58,155 299,498 339,332 - - IT Common Services - - - - 64,027 85,463 Finance Common Services - - - - 9,266 6,925 HR Common Services - - - - 3,931 13,241 Property Common Services - - - - 111,583 87,795 Property Rental - - - - 61,133 61,045 OHS Common Services - - - - 649 1,211 SPU Common Services - - - - 2,398 1,745 Total Charges 42,346 58,155 299,498 339,332 252,987 257,425

Drivers for Overhead Charges:FTE 1 1 5 6 Overhead charges per annum per FTE 2 56,461 58,155 59,900 61,697

Notes: 1. 2008-2011 data are estimates based on a unit of $56,461 per Full-time Effective (FTE) staff member indexed at 3% p.a. 2. Data for 2012 and 2013 are notional calculations of property and common charges attributed to the Institute in the divisional budget 3. 2012 data is based on actual usage of property and common charges 4. 2013 data is based on the drivers used to calculate the 2013 budget allocations of property and common charges 5. In 2013, the charges will remain as budgeted, except that property charges may vary in Q3 and Q4 should space requirements vary

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Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013Other special projects

Vic Gov DSDBIUoM Project / Account number : VIDS

I Trust Account

95589

VIDS I 95577

VIDS II Trust Account

95585

2012

Actual as of end 2013 2011 2012 2013 2013 2013OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous Year)

- - 963,492 1,024,422 - -

INCOME - - - - - - Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding / Financial Assistance

- - - - - -

State & Local Government Grants - - 2,000,000 - - - Other Grant Income (PCS) - - - - - - Investment Income 5,978 - - -1,664 29,878 -4,951 Non Course Fees & Services - - - - - - Professional Services / Consulting and Contracted Services - - - - - - Other Income (GCP) - - - - - - Fee for Service Income - 1,000,000 -1,000,000 - - - Asset Disposal - - - - - - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM) 1,000,000 - - -2,000,000 1,000,000 -

Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses recovery) - - - - - - Total Income 1,005,978 1,000,000 1,000,000 -2,001,664 1,029,878 -4,951

EXPENDITURE - - - - - - Salary Costs Permanent - - 60,169 -60,169 - 60,169 Salary Costs Casual - 28,858 29,942 -13,346 - 13,346 Salary Expenditure Total - 28,858 90,112 -73,516 - 73,516 Grant Expense - - - 87,041 - 540,000 Finance Related Costs (Tax) - - 651 -564 - 652 Student Support - - 810,000 2,743 - 90,000 Consumable Goods and Services - 1,082 1,372 -850 - 1,351 Expert Services - 6,568 1,244 -1,169 - - Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes - - 35,691 -16,653 - 18,267 Expensed Assets - - - - - - Infrastructure Related Expenses - - - - - - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost) - - - - - - Non Salary Expenditure - 7,650 848,958 70,548 - 650,269 Total Expenditure - 36,508 939,070 -2,967 - 723,785 Net Surplus/(Deficit) 1,005,978 963,492 60,930 -1,998,696 1,029,878 -728,736 CLOSING BALANCE 1,005,978 963,492 1,024,422 -974,274 1,029,878 -728,736

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Australia India Institute - Income and Expenditure Report 2008 - 31 December 2013Other special projects

Fed Gov DIICCSRTE F G AusAid

F G AIC British Gov

UoM Project / Account number : AIEC 95578

AISE 95580

RLP - AIELE 95588

IACP 95584

YPD 95587

PCS 95582

Actual as of end 2012 2013 2012 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013OPENING BALANCE (Notional cash carry forward from Previous Year)

- 370,750 - 159,620 - - - -

INCOME - - - - - - - - Commonwealth Funding / Block Grant Funding / Financial Assistance

303,328 - 200,000 - 147,500 269,960 25,000 -

State & Local Government Grants - - - - - - - - Other Grant Income (PCS) - - - - - - - 131,036 Investment Income - - 869 1,376 - - - - Non Course Fees & Services - - - - - - - - Professional Services / Consulting and Contracted Services

- - - - - - - -

Other Income (GCP) - - - - - - - - Fee for Service Income 136,364 - - - - - - - Asset Disposal - - - - - - - - Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (UoM)

- - - - - - - -

Internal Recoveries-Department Use (Shared expenses recovery)

- - - - - - - -

Total Income 439,692 - 200,869 1,376 147,500 269,960 25,000 131,036

EXPENDITURE - - - - - - Salary Costs Permanent - - - - - - - -

Salary Costs Casual - - 17,115 52,635 - - - -

Salary Expenditure Total - - 17,115 52,635 - - - -

Grant Expense - - - - - 53,000 - - Finance Related Costs (Tax) - - 31 14 - - 641 529 Student Support - - 1,040 1,894 - - - - Consumable Goods and Services 364 3,508 654 7,327 34 - - 12,340 Expert Services 45,000 42,636 - 4,293 6,266 120,000 - 30,951 Travel, Accom, Conf, Seminars, Workshops, Events & Programmes

20,250 19,001 22,409 93,011 25,117 6,807 19,942 87,562

Expensed Assets - - - - - - - - Infrastructure Related Expenses 3,328 - - 565 90 - - 167 Internal Allocations/Transfers-Central Admin. (Support Cost)

- - - - - - - -

Non Salary Expenditure 68,943 65,145 24,134 107,103 31,507 179,807 20,583 131,548 Total Expenditure 68,943 65,145 41,249 159,738 31,507 179,807 20,583 131,548 Net Surplus/(Deficit) 370,750 -65,145 159,620 -158,362 115,993 90,153 4,417 -512 CLOSING BALANCE 370,750 305,604 159,620 1,258 115,993 90,153 4,417 -512

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