Deadline: 30-Oct-2025
The Elizabeth O’Neill Journalism Award is awarded to one journalist from Indonesia and one journalist from Australia each year.
The award covers international airfares and domestic transfers from the participant’s home city, accommodation, internal transport, vaccinations, visas, travel insurance, and other allowances. The award does not cover the cost of travel for dependents, interpreters, camerapersons or other technical support people, additional baggage, or other airline offerings. Successful applicants must have a valid passport with at least six months’ validity from the date of departure.
The award is open to journalists from print, radio, television, and online media organisations at any stage of their career. Indonesian and Australian award recipients spend up to two weeks in Australia and Indonesia, respectively, on a fully funded program coordinated by the Australia-Indonesia Institute of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and supported by the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. Programs for successful candidates are developed to build a stronger understanding and appreciation of the broad range of issues facing contemporary Indonesia and Australia. The program will take place in 2026.
Programs are tailored to the journalist’s area of expertise and reporting responsibilities. They include a stay in the host country’s capital city, Jakarta or Canberra, with visits to at least one other province, state, or territory in the country visited. The program may include engagements with local media organisations, both commercial and government-owned, the employer organisation of the host country participant, academic institutions including those with specialist journalism and communications programs, media industry regulators and peak body organisations, government and parliamentary officials and ministers where possible, and leading representatives of civil society and non-governmental organisations.
Interested journalists are invited to submit an expression of interest of no more than 300 words to the Australia-Indonesia Institute Secretariat via email by no later than 5pm Thursday 30 October 2025.
For more information, visit Australian Government.
