{"id":14869,"date":"2022-02-10T05:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T05:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14869"},"modified":"2022-02-10T05:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T05:07:39","slug":"greens-secure-inquiry-into-political-interference-in-arc-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/greens-secure-inquiry-into-political-interference-in-arc-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens secure inquiry into political interference in ARC grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Senate has given its support to a motion of Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi to refer her private members\u2019 bill&nbsp;<em>Australian Research Council Amendment (Ensuring Research Independence) Bill 2018<\/em>&nbsp;to a Senate Inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Faruqi, Greens spokesperson for Education, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very pleased that the Senate has agreed to this inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no place for political interference in research funding and my bill would ensure that grants are allocated through the established rigorous processes, not ministerial intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to hearing from universities and researchers on this critical issue. Frankly, for too long, their voices have been ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLiberal Ministers have vetoed seventeen peer-reviewed grants in just the last four years. The government is out of control and the madness has to end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inquiry has been referred to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Committees\/Senate\/Education_and_Employment\">Senate\u2019s Education and Employment Legislation Committee<\/a>. More information will be made available in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has given its support to a motion of Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi to refer her private members\u2019 bill&nbsp;Australian Research Council Amendment (Ensuring Research Independence) Bill 2018&nbsp;to a Senate Inquiry. Senator Faruqi, Greens spokesperson for Education, said: \u201cI\u2019m very pleased that the Senate has agreed to this inquiry. \u201cThere is no place for political &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/greens-secure-inquiry-into-political-interference-in-arc-grants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens secure inquiry into political interference in ARC grants&#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-14869","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\/14869","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=14869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14870,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14869\/revisions\/14870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}