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The National Foundation for Australia-China Relations is pleased to release its Annual Update 2024-25, with highlights of our grants, activities and events over the previous financial year.

The National Foundation for Australia-China Relations is pleased to announce the 2025-26 grants round is now open for applications. Applications close on Monday midday 30 June 2025.

The Foundation’s annual Wang Gungwu lecture celebrates the substantial and longstanding contributions of Australia’s diverse Chinese communities to Australian life. This year’s speaker was Melissa Wu OLY, diving legend and five-time Olympian.

In 1995, a group of Chinese surgeons and health providers travelled to Australia with the support of AusAID funding to learn audiology from Australian experts at Macquarie University and the University of Melbourne. 30 years later, this ongoing hearing collaboration between Australia and China has been taken to new heights through Macquarie University’s Australian Newborn Hearing Screening Showcase.

First Nations stargazing, a visit to Parliament House with the Speaker of the House and dinner with a Nobel Laureate. This unique program enables Chinese international students to engage with influential leaders, experience democracy in action and understand us better. Chinese international students are an important part of Australia’s communities, classrooms and campuses.

The National Foundation for Australia-China Relations will co-host the eighth Australia-China High Level Dialogue with the Chinese People’s Institute for Foreign Affairs in Adelaide this week.

The National Foundation for Australia-China Relations is pleased to announce the 2024-25 grants round is now open for applications. Applications close on Monday midday 9 September 2024.

The National Foundation for Australia-China Relations is pleased to release its Annual Update 2023-24, with highlights of our grants, activities and events over the previous financial year.

Typhoon? Heatwave? Cities are where we often experience the effects of climate change first hand. This puts them at the forefront of dealing with the effects of climate change challenges. The Shared Pathways program by University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Centre for Cities connects city officials from Australia and China to encourage practical exchange on climate action.

Welcome to the June 2024 issue of the Foundation's newsletter, where you can read more about the Foundation's grants, activities and events.

Australian Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall famously ingested a concoction of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) to prove his hypothesis that the bacteria were a leading cause of gastric ulcers and cancer.

The Wang Gungwu lecture celebrates the substantial and longstanding contributions of Australia's diverse Chinese communities to Australian life. This year's speaker was Ming Long AM, the first woman of Chinese heritage to lead an ASX200 company and Chair of the Diversity Council of Australia.