Established by Sir Keith Murdoch in New York City in 1948, the American Australian Association is the leading privately funded nonprofit organization dedicated to deepening and strengthening cooperation and understanding between the institutions and people of the United States and Australia.
Welcome to the
American Australian Association
Programs
Business & Innovation
The dynamic economic bond between Australia and the United States is at the core of the relationship between the two nations.
Graduate Education
The AAA Graduate Education Fund provides scholarship awards of up to US $40,000 to support graduate-level study (Masters, Ph.D. or Post-Doctoral Research) for Americans and Australians to study in each other's countries respectively.
Veterans
The AAA Veterans' Fund provides scholarship awards of up to US $50,000 to support honorably discharged post-9/11 military veterans, from America and Australia, to pursue undergraduate and graduate-level study in each other's countries respectively.
Arts
The AAA Arts Fund provides scholarships and grants to support American and Australian emerging or early-career artists to pursue artistic development in each other’s countries respectively.
CONNECT, GROW, LEARN, INSPIRE
Privately funded scholarship program between the US and Australia
800+
Graduate Education, Veteran and Art Alumni
1000+
Corporate Sponsors, Partners and Members
Over US $10.5 million of Awarded Scholarships to date
Thank you for supporting our programs!
Events
G’Day USA AAA Arts Gala
US-Australia Dialogue on Medical Innovation in Response to COVID-19
Presented in Partnership with G'Day USA
The Biden Administration: Priorities & what this means for Australia
Spotlight On:
Dame Joan Sutherland Fund Alum Jeremy Chan Releases EP featuring Mezzo Soprano, Kristen Gornstein
Spotlight On:
Caroline Garcia
2018 AAA-AFNGA AusArt Scholar (Arts Fund)
Caroline was supported by the AusArt Scholarship in 2018 to complete her Master of Fine Arts at Parsons, The New School in New York. She works across live performance and video through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural dance, ritual practice, new media, and the sampling of popular culture and colonial imagery.
Spotlight On:
Tui Nolan
2019 AAA-Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar (Graduate Education Fund)
Methodological Statistician, Tui Nolan, is a Gudjal man from Sydney, Australia, with degrees from both the University of Technology Sydney and The University of Sydney. In February 2020, Tui will begin his postdoctoral research Cornell University in the Department of Statistical Science under the supervision of Professor David Rupert, supported by the AAA-Aurora Indigenous Education Scholarship.
Spotlight On:
Q & A with Business Council Member Tania Yuki
Founder & CEO Shareablee
Business Council member, Tania Yuki, founded Shareablee in February 2013. It now monitors more than 1M global companies and 9M+ influencers across social platforms using 800+ metrics. We asked Tania about her experience as an Australian CEO in New York.
