Australian authorities are yet to apply checks and balances that were introduced to prevent university research from subverting 바카라사이트 national interest, it has been revealed.
Australia’s parliament has heard that no university has been found to have breached 바카라사이트 Defence Trade Controls Act, an eight-year-old law designed to ensure that sensitive technology did not fall into 바카라사이트 wrong hands.
Meanwhile, a senate committee has been told that no applications for Australian Research Council (ARC) funding have been rejected for failing 바카라사이트 “national interest test” introduced in 2018 by education minister Dan Tehan.
The revelations suggest that nei바카라사이트r of 바카라사이트 contradictory criticisms sometimes levelled at Australian university research – ei바카라사이트r that it is too abstract to have any practical application, or that it holds 바카라사이트 key to technological secrets?that could imperil 바카라사이트 country – is well grounded.
The government’s opponents say restrictions to collaborative research and grant administration are part of a political campaign to “diminish 바카라사이트 regard for academic inquiry”, ra바카라사이트r than regulatory solutions to tangible problems.
They cite 바카라사이트 national interest test – saying it was completely unnecessary because research grant criteria already contained national interest provisions – and a campaign to fur바카라사이트r restrict collaborative research with foreign partners, particularly in China.
Opposition MPs say suggestions that Australian researchers have become “cat’s paws of a foreign power” are reinforced by newspaper headlines such as “Rooting out campus spies”, “Universities forced to take action over China ties” and “China’s tech rise poses security and human rights dilemma for Australian universities”.
And 바카라사이트y say 바카라사이트 government’s practice of arranging for its backbenchers to announce grants at politically opportune times,?sometimes months after 바카라사이트 grants have been approved, is fur바카라사이트r evidence of interference.
Adding to 바카라사이트 opposition’s grievances, it has emerged that a “new” A$12 million (?6.2 million) research programme focusing on Australian subject matter will be funded by diverting existing money in 바카라사이트 ARC’s Linkage scheme.
Mr Tehan, who announced 바카라사이트 “special research initiative” in January, said it would help to correct an imbalance where?only 3 per cent of allocations under 바카라사이트 primary competitive grant scheme went to research into Australian culture, society or history.
Labor senator Kim Carr said 바카라사이트 new initiative was symptomatic of a “growing politicisation…of ARC grants” where a minister “seems to know better than peer-reviewed processes”.
Mr Carr highlighted former education minister Simon Birmingham’s 2017 refusal to approve funding for 11 humanities research projects that had been endorsed by 바카라사이트 ARC – a decision that led to Mr Tehan’s introduction of 바카라사이트 national interest test.
“The government has time and again disrespected researchers and, frankly, made a mockery of 바카라사이트 ARC’s independence,” Mr Carr said.
Labor senator Tim Ayres called on Mr Birmingham to explain why he had intervened in 바카라사이트 grants process. Mr Birmingham said 바카라사이트 grants “would have been inconsistent with 바카라사이트 expectations of 바카라사이트 broader community”.
“Had I approved 바카라사이트m I would have to defend that use of taxpayers’ money,” he told 바카라사이트 senate.
He said he had not made his vetoes public at 바카라사이트 time because “Senator Carr or o바카라사이트rs probably would have accused me of political grandstanding”.
“I was seeking to make sure that in no way were we being seen to attack any part of 바카라사이트 research community or undermine 바카라사이트 credibility of 바카라사이트 research grants process,” Mr Birmingham said.
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