Senate debates

Monday, 16 June 2014

Questions without Notice

Higher Education: Research Funding

3:04 pm

Photo of Marise PayneMarise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

We have committed $127 million of funding, through the ARC, to key priorities, including $42 million to the James Cook University to expand their capacity in tropical health and medicine; $26 million to ARC Discovery, as part of our $200 million commitment to intensify research in dementia; $35 million for a national network to coordinate research towards finding a cure for type 1 juvenile diabetes; and $24 million for the Antarctic Gateway Partnership in Tasmania. Unlike those opposite, this government understands that— (Time expired)

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