Ring fence basic research funding in ARC overhaul


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Government funding for blue sky research should be protected by a legislated ring-fence in order to reverse decades of decline and to “feed the very beginning” of the innovation pipeline, research groups have told an inquiry into reform at the Australian Research Council (ARC).

In submissions to the bill that will bring about governance and process changes at the ARC, both the Group of Eight (Go8) universities and Science and …

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