Senate debates

Monday, 18 March 2024

Bills

Australian Research Council Amendment (Review Response) Bill 2023; In Committee

6:59 pm

Photo of Anthony ChisholmAnthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

The government will not be supporting this amendment. Making funding rules disallowable is a key transparency mechanism in this bill. It ensures that funding rules are subject to the scrutiny of the parliament. The ARC board will prepare funding rules which will be issued in a manner which takes into account the disallowance processes and time frames so that researchers have certainty as a result.

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