{"id":14788,"date":"2022-02-07T05:14:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2022-02-07T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T05:14:13","slug":"greens-push-for-senate-inquiry-into-research-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/02\/07\/greens-push-for-senate-inquiry-into-research-veto\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens push for Senate inquiry into research veto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When parliament resumes on Tuesday 8 February, Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi will move to establish a Senate inquiry into her private members\u2019 bill, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Bills_Legislation\/Bills_Search_Results\/Result?bId=s1150\"><em>Australian Research Council Amendment (Ensuring Research Independence) Bill 2018<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Faruqi\u2019s bill would remove ministerial discretion in relation to the approval of research grants administered by the Australian Research Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cResearchers and universities are absolutely fed-up with this nonsensical, harmful veto power which allows targeted political interference in research funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo Liberal ministers have now vetoed seventeen projects in the last four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have a bill that would remove this power and it\u2019s about time the Senate took a look at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy hearing from university communities, academics, researchers and unions, the Senate will be forced to confront the real-world, damaging impact the veto has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPolitical interference has no place in research funding. The actions of the current government have been simply despicable in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI hope that through this process, Labor can finally come to the table and commit to supporting the removal of the ministerial veto ahead of the federal election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When parliament resumes on Tuesday 8 February, Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi will move to establish a Senate inquiry into her private members\u2019 bill, the&nbsp;Australian Research Council Amendment (Ensuring Research Independence) Bill 2018. Senator Faruqi\u2019s bill would remove ministerial discretion in relation to the approval of research grants administered by the Australian Research &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/02\/07\/greens-push-for-senate-inquiry-into-research-veto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens push for Senate inquiry into research veto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14789,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions\/14789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}