{"id":851,"date":"2018-11-29T02:46:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T02:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=851"},"modified":"2018-11-29T02:46:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T02:46:30","slug":"minister-tehans-new-research-national-interest-test-farcical-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/minister-tehans-new-research-national-interest-test-farcical-and-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Tehan\u2019s New Research National Interest Test Farcical and Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education Spokesperson and Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has called the Liberal\/National Government\u2019s new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=3ZUQjNycMu7D%2Fe%2Bm%2FOmi3Qi1eTNrfRb0HcFplK3KYerw%2B6SfjwwI9iuOHl%2BXgrdNOvvPvP2TkVWYplc0TBPI7P6vHBz%2FoOA9ijfvetgQQCBm7qPXN7%2FqEg%3D%3D&amp;G=0&amp;R=https%3A%2F%2Fministers.education.gov.au%2Ftehan%2Ffunding-world-leading-research&amp;I=20181128005406.00000050d188%40mail6-53-ussnn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjViZmRlNzJjZWY0NDg1MGExZjcwMTUxNDs%3D&amp;S=aNE4IUiBewkVcEyj43iGoX48btvieYqAFbv_A_9LAs8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement%3Dtrue%26H%3D3ZUQjNycMu7D%252Fe%252Bm%252FOmi3Qi1eTNrfRb0HcFplK3KYerw%252B6SfjwwI9iuOHl%252BXgrdNOvvPvP2TkVWYplc0TBPI7P6vHBz%252FoOA9ijfvetgQQCBm7qPXN7%252FqEg%253D%253D%26G%3D0%26R%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fministers.education.gov.au%252Ftehan%252Ffunding-world-leading-research%26I%3D20181128005406.00000050d188%2540mail6-53-ussnn1%26X%3DMHwxMDQ2NzU4OjViZmRlNzJjZWY0NDg1MGExZjcwMTUxNDs%253D%26S%3DaNE4IUiBewkVcEyj43iGoX48btvieYqAFbv_A_9LAs8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543452943365000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFOm0oErGcVhUTZTIUlE0LPfG3Hog\">research national interest test<\/a>\u00a0farcical.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThe National Interest Test proposed by Minister Tehan is straight out of \u2018Yes Minister\u2019. This farcical proposal is the typical Liberal tactic of inventing a problem then trying to solve it.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Australian Research Council already requires researchers to demonstrate the benefits and impacts of their research.\u00a0 If the Minister had spent even five minutes talking to the research community he would know that.<br \/>\n\u201cNarrow political agendas of the Government of the day determining long term research priorities is a dangerous road to go down.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Minister makes a baseless claim that a \u2018national research test\u2019 will give confidence in research but the reality is that the research community has no confidence in a Minister that plays such silly games.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Liberals need to get out of the way and let researchers get on with the job of solving problems. I have a bill in the parliament to remove the Ministers veto altogether, which would be the best outcome to safeguard the independence of research,&#8221; she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education Spokesperson and Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has called the Liberal\/National Government\u2019s new\u00a0research national interest test\u00a0farcical. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe National Interest Test proposed by Minister Tehan is straight out of \u2018Yes Minister\u2019. This farcical proposal is the typical Liberal tactic of inventing a problem then trying to solve it. \u201cThe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/minister-tehans-new-research-national-interest-test-farcical-and-dangerous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minister Tehan\u2019s New Research National Interest Test Farcical and Dangerous&#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-851","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\/851","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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}