Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy is a very, very important research scheme. When we came to power, we discovered that the Labor Party had defunded the scheme from 30 June 2015. So I talked to the Prime Minister and the Treasurer about how we could make sure that NCRIS continued into the future doing the good work that it does. To put that in context, the government spends $9 billion a year on research in higher education—every year—and $150 million is the national collaborative research infrastructure scheme. I and the Prime Minister were absolutely determined to make sure that continued, so we linked it to the savings in the reform bill—

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