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Monash staff receive Don Chipp grants

30 November 2005

Two Monash staff members have each been awarded grants of $5000 by the Don Chipp Foundation.

Dr Nick Economou (left) with Mr Zareh Ghazarian.

Dr Nick Economou, the Deputy Head of the School of Political and Social Inquiry, received one of the grants. The other went to Professor Sarah Joseph, the Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law.

Dr Economou and Mr Zareh Ghazarian, who is a politics PhD student and sessional lecturer, will use the grant to fund a project titled 'The impact of the Australian Democrats on community perceptions on the role of the Australian Senate'.

"This study will examine the impact the Australian Democrats' approach and performance has had on public perceptions of the role of the Senate," Dr Economou said.

Professor Joseph said her project, titled 'Bills of rights in the age of terror', aimed to facilitate and contribute to contemporary debate about the role a Bill of Rights would play in upholding democratic values in an age of terrorism.

Professor Sarah Joseph.

This is the second year the grants have been awarded. Four grants are awarded annually to Australian research projects considered consistent with the aims of the Don Chipp Foundation -- research related to the promotion of social and economic justice within the Australian community.

Two of the grants are for $5000 and two are for $2500. Thirty-four applications were received by the foundation this year.

The Don Chipp Foundation is an independent research body affiliated with the Australian Democrats. Mr Don Chipp founded the Australian Democrats, leading them to their first national election in 1977.