Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator Pratt, I move:

(1) There be laid on the table, by the Minister responsible for the Australian Research Council, or when that minister is in the House of Representatives, the minister in the Senate representing that minister, by not later than 15 days after the end of the previous calendar month, a letter of advice that a list, meeting the requirements of paragraph (2), of all Australian Research Council grant recommendations received by the responsible minister each month, has been published on the Internet.

(2) The list of grant recommendations must be published in a machine readable format and specify the following information for each recommendation:

(a) identification or application number;

(b) title of application;

(c) scheme or stream;

(d) date received by the responsible minister;

(e) whether the grant was approved or not approved by the responsible minister;

(f) date of the responsible minister's decision;

(g) date the applicant was informed of the grant outcome;

(h) the amount of funding granted (if any); and

(i) whether the grant was publicly announced and, if so, the date of the announcement.

(3) If the Senate is not sitting when the letter is ready for presentation, the letter is to be presented to the President under standing order 166.

(4) This order is of continuing effect.