how do I find australian government grants?

Question

How do I find Australian government grants to study music?

Answer 1

Have you checked the music scholarship list online at Music Council of Australia? Start there.

www.mcs.org.au

Your local university has plenty of brochures and other things that can help you--even if you don't plan on going there. Just ask for the names of Federal and State grants that may help you. Or go to their website online and click to find the links to read about get that info.

Grants sometimes are administered locally by city councils in Australia, so check there, too. Go online to your local council website and follow the links there.

If you are still in secondary or high school, go see your school's guidance counselor or careers counselor. They can tell you what the names of the government grants are, then you can follow up by getting info on those specific grants.

Also see:

Australian Music Foundation in London--scholarships for Australians to study music anywhere in Europe. You must reside in Australia or the UK.

www.ukcosa.org/uk

Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship for Australians studying instrumental music ages 25-31.

Contact claudia at artsmanagement dot com dot au

If you are in the Brisbane area try here for arts scholarships:

www.brisbane.qld.gov.au
www.arts.qld.gov.au

Answer 2

To every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Unfortunately, prolonging the first home buyers grant will only prolong the inevitable - a greater national deficit that will play untold havoc on individual pockets. The government unwittingly believes this extension will stimulate the economy. But in true Labour fashion little consideration is given to the means of compensating this generous grant and so economic mismanagement again appears to be the realm. It is indeed a pleasant fiction to believe that it will make housing affordable to those who are yet to own their first home. Unfortunately as previously discussed by others, in view of the grant, housing prices are inflated by capitalistic monsters and so the grant is but a joke! What you now have is first home buyers locked into contracts just as detrimental if the grant did not exist. The long-term effect is that these home-buyers like all of Australians will eventually pay through other financial devices the government would care to inflict in the future. The extended grant is but a smoke screen and further evidence of economic mis-management.