Australia-Indonesia Institute Invites Applications For Journalism Award

Jakarta, Oct 24 (Antara) - The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australia-Indonesia Institute invite applications for the Elizabeth O`Neill Journalism Award, the Australian Embassy here said on its website on Thursday. The Award commemorates the distinguished career of Elizabeth O`Neill OAM, who died in service of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Indonesia on 7 March 2007. The Award builds on her tireless work to foster mutual understanding of Australia and Indonesia through accurate and informed media coverage. According to the embassy, the Elizabeth O`Neill Journalism Award is awarded to one journalist from Indonesia and one from Australia each year. The Award is open to high achieving journalists from print, radio, television and online media organisations. The Indonesian Award recipient will spend up to two weeks in Australia on a fully funded program to build a stronger understanding and appreciation of the broad range of issues facing contemporary Australia and relations with Indonesia. It said that the program will be tailored to the journalist`s area of expertise and reporting responsibilities in such areas as foreign and trade policy, development assistance, people-to-people links and education. The successful applicant must be available to travel in the first six months of 2014. Indonesian applicants must be Indonesian citizens resident in Indonesia. Full details on the application process can be found on the department`s website at http://www.dfat.gov.au/media/elizabeth-oneill/. Applications close on COB 1 November 2013. We expect the successful Award recipients (Indonesian and Australian) will be announced in December 2013.