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What is the Native Title Anthropologist Grant Program?
The Native Title Anthropologist Grant Program is a grant opportunity that aims to increase native title anthropology capacity by supporting native title anthropologists working in the system.
Background
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people maintain a distinctive cultural, spiritual, physical and economic relationship with their land and waters. The program seeks to increase native title anthropology capacity by supporting native title anthropologists working in the system. This work supports the recognition and protection of native title for First Nations people.
Objectives
The objectives of the program are to:
- support the native title sector by increasing its native title anthropology capacity through:
- increasing the availability of qualified and experienced anthropologists
- assisting junior and early career anthropologists develop skills useful to the native title sector
- strengthening the sector as it shifts towards a post-determination stage
- further the objectives of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, including:
- Priority Reform 2 – Building the Community-Controlled Sector
- Outcome 15 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people maintain a distinctive cultural, spiritual, physical and economic relationship with their land and waters.
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Funding
The Australian Government has announced a total of up to $1.053 million GST exclusive over 3 years for the Native Title Anthropologist Grant Program 2022 to 2025. The grant opportunity will run from 2022–23 to 2024–25. There is no minimum or maximum grant amount but grants cannot exceed the amount of available funds.
Eligible Projects
To be eligible, your grant activities must directly relate to the project and may be used to pay for any of the following:
- Greater future capacity for anthropological work in the native title sector
- Stronger linkages between academic and applied anthropological work, to ensure anthropological skills are available to support the resolution of ongoing native claims and the effective management of native title into the future
- Professional development and support for native title anthropologists, in particular to build claims resolution, post-determination and compensation skills, including legal skills
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible, you must be one of the following entity types:
- Company
- Cooperative
- Corporate Commonwealth Entity
- Corporate State or Territory Entity
- Incorporated Association
- Indigenous Corporation
- Local Government Entity
- Non-corporate Commonwealth Entity
- Non-corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
- Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
- Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
- Partnership
- Person
- Sole Trader
- Statutory Entity
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Timing
Applications close 29 November 2022.

