{"id":23221,"date":"2023-10-03T01:33:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T01:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=23221"},"modified":"2023-10-03T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T01:33:12","slug":"aad-senate-inquiry-hearings-commence-in-hobart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/aad-senate-inquiry-hearings-commence-in-hobart\/","title":{"rendered":"AAD SENATE INQUIRY HEARINGS COMMENCE IN HOBART"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Antarctic scientists will tomorrow provide evidence to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-xlryull-ikididduyh-y\/\">Senate inquiry<\/a>&nbsp;hearing into the current&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-xlryull-ikididduyh-j\/\">mismanagement of funding<\/a>&nbsp;of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inquiry was initiated following the Albanese Government\u2019s failure to set the record straight and address&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-xlryull-ikididduyh-t\/\">rising fears about what science programs will be axed<\/a>&nbsp;as a result of a $25 million cut from the AAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, The Tasmanian Polar Network, Imas, CPSU and TasPorts will also provide evidence at tomorrow&#8217;s hearing, held in nipaluna\/Hobart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNews broke of the AAD\u2019s $25 million cut over two months ago, and since then the Albanese Government has left the Division\u2019s staff languishing in uncertainty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to put politics aside and get to the bottom of the AAD\u2019s funding mismanagement.<br><br>\u201cWhat needs to be thoroughly scrutinised is the impact a $25 million cut from the AAD will have on Australia\u2019s Antarctic activities, including what science programs are expected to be axed and why.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s shocking that we are not hearing more from the Australian Government on this matter given we claim 40% of Antarctica as Australian Territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMore than ever our planet depends on us understanding the Antarctic region, so we must appropriately fund the necessary science to study it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHopefully the Senate can assist the Albanese Government to clear up this troubling situation, and make sure science programs are prioritised and fully funded as originally planned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>* Public submissions to the inquiry and information about the hearing\u2019s schedule, can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-xlryull-ikididduyh-i\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctic scientists will tomorrow provide evidence to a&nbsp;Senate inquiry&nbsp;hearing into the current&nbsp;mismanagement of funding&nbsp;of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). The inquiry was initiated following the Albanese Government\u2019s failure to set the record straight and address&nbsp;rising fears about what science programs will be axed&nbsp;as a result of a $25 million cut from the AAD. Australian Meteorological &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/aad-senate-inquiry-hearings-commence-in-hobart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AAD SENATE INQUIRY HEARINGS COMMENCE IN HOBART&#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-23221","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\/23221","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=23221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23222,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23221\/revisions\/23222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}