Author: Joseph Brookes

ARC bombarded with FOIs for research application scores

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Australia’s university research funding agency has received hundreds of Freedom of Information requests from unsuccessful grant applicants for the scores and feedback on their rejected proposals. Responses will be...

Another committee to probe $15bn NRF

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With debate intensifying around the government’s planned $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund, Industry minister Ed Husic on Wednesday referred a committee to inquire into how to develop advanced manufacturing...

Govt in-house consultancy progressing despite UK failure

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The Albanese government looks set to unveil its in-house consultancy project at the May budget, with several options that consider the failings of the United Kingdom’s recently scrapped equivalent...

Treasury secretary shoots down NRF inflation fears

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Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy on Wednesday quelled fears the Albanese government’s $45 billion in off budget spending would add to aggregate demand, saying he does not think the funds...

Coalition fury at Husic’s NRF AUKUS link

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Industry minister Ed Husic made a “desperate intervention” in the growing debate around the government’s flagship industry policy when he linked the planned $15 billion fund to national security,...

Unis demand slice of NRF to fund more commercialisation

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The government’s $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund should be used to rebalance the way Australian research and development has been supported in Australia after a decade of business tax...