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Discretionary grants

Discretionary grants are payments where the Minister or paying agency has discretion in determining whether or not a particular applicant receives funding and the conditions that apply in return for the grant.

The discretionary grant programs administered by the Department in 2005–06 are listed below.

• Anti-Doping Research program
• Commercial Radio Black Spots program
• Consumer representation and research grants
• Coordinated Communications Infrastructure Fund
• Cultural Development Program
• • Contemporary Music Touring Program
  • Festivals Australia
  • Playing Australia
  • Regional Arts Fund
  • Visions of Australia
• Demand Aggregation Broker program
• Indigenous Broadcasting program
• Indigenous Sport and
  Recreation program
• IT Training and Technical Support program
• Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records
• National Arts and Crafts Industry Support
• National Transmission Network Residual Funding Pool
• National Recreation Safety program
• Networking the Nation
• Promotion of Indigenous Art
• Regional Arts and Culture Support
• Remote commercial transmission supplementation
• Television Black Spots—Alternative Technical Solutions program

More information about these programs is available on the Department's website at www.dcita.gov.au. A list of grant recipients for each program is available on request.

Document ID: 52730 | Last modified: 6 February 2008, 1:12pm