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Labor guarantees funding for ARC approved grants

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Labor has promised not to block any funding for research projects recommended to it by the Australian Research Council following backlash to several Coalition ministers vetoing funding fo humanities...

Senate to probe Australian Research Council grant vetoes

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A parliamentary inquiry will examine the power of ministers to veto research funding after the Greens successfully referred their bill seeking to the remove the power to the Senate...

Govt’s $2b uni research funding stretched over 11 years

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The $2 billion the federal government will inject to align university research commercialisation with its hand-picked manufacturing priorities will be stretched across the next 11 years. A day after...

Experts who recommended research grants condemn minister’s veto

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The experts who recommended funding for research projects that were later blocked by the acting Education minister late last year have condemned the intervention, warning it “undermines” the independent...

Barry Pogson: Blocking research has consequences

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Blocking humanities projects damages other research disciplines and is “inconsistent” with the federal government’s demand for academic freedom in Australian universities, according to one of the country’s most eminent...

University of Sydney demands end to govt’s research interference

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott is “dismayed” at the acting education minister’s decision to block two of the institution’s research projects from receiving funding, despite the proposals being...