{"id":4374,"date":"2019-11-25T09:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2019-11-25T09:21:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T09:21:19","slug":"greens-move-to-depoliticise-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/25\/greens-move-to-depoliticise-research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens move to depoliticise research funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens will move in the House and the Senate to reverse the Liberal government\u2019s recent politicisation of Australian Research Council grants by requiring the Minister to publicly release all successful grant applications in a timely manner and without other government MPs or candidates involved.<br \/>\nThe government recently changed the ARC rules so that grants could be announced by Coalition MPs \u2013 and only Coalition MPs \u2013 even when the successful grant was outside the government MP\u2019s electorate.<br \/>\n<strong>Quotes attributable to Greens Science &amp; Research spokesperson, Adam Bandt MP:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cResearch funding should be independently assessed and not a political plaything.<br \/>\n\u201cBy holding back public announcements of successful grants until it suits the political needs of a marginal seat Coalition MP, the government is threatening the independence of the ARC.<br \/>\n\u201cResearchers shouldn\u2019t have to worry that their grant application is at risk because a government MP won\u2019t stand next to them at a press conference.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Liberals can\u2019t be trusted to act properly, so the Greens will amend the law to require successful ARC grant applications to be publicly released in a timely manner and without politicians or candidates involved.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Greens\u2019 amendment to the\u00a0<em>Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2019<\/em>, currently before the Parliament, reads:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/1f20735217fb7df5078bb8602\/images\/f56dc4eb-f223-4c41-bc59-e44611f5f961.png\" data-file-id=\"1020513\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens will move in the House and the Senate to reverse the Liberal government\u2019s recent politicisation of Australian Research Council grants by requiring the Minister to publicly release all successful grant applications in a timely manner and without other government MPs or candidates involved. The government recently changed the ARC rules so that grants &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/11\/25\/greens-move-to-depoliticise-research-funding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens move to depoliticise research funding&#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-4374","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\/4374","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=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}