• $12.5 million over four years for a National Justice Reinvestment Unit to coordinate and support justice reinvestment initiatives at a national level.101 4.5.8 Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts Communications and the Arts within the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts (DIRTDCA) provide community grants for activities through its Arts and Cultural Development program. While none have a specific focus on racism, some appear to have some relevance. These include the following grants programs: • Arts and Cultural Development • Festivals Australia • Visions of Australia, and • Australian Music Industry Package.102 Communications and the Arts also funded the Gujaga Foundation a one off/ad hoc grant of $70,629 in 2019-20 to support two First Nations cultural events to commemorate the arrival of James Cook at Kamay Botany Bay, one of which was a Meeting of Two Cultures event.103 4.6 Australian Research Council grants The Australian Research Council (ARC) sits under the Department of Education and is the Commonwealth agency responsible for facilitating the National Competitive Grant Program for university research.104 The ARC has two funding schemes: • Discovery Program, comprising: – Discovery Projects: supporting basic and applied research by individuals and teams – Discovery Indigenous: supporting basic and applied research by First Nations researchers – Discovery Early Career Researcher Award: supporting early-career researchers – Future Fellowships: supporting mid-career researchers, and 101 Australian Government | Grant Connect, accessed January 2024 102 Australian Government | Grant Connect, accessed January 2024 103 Australian Government | Grant Connect, accessed January 2024 104 Australian Government Australian Research Council (2024) website accessed 13 February 2024 57