The chief of Australia’s central research funding body is being forced to act as a “political censor” by personally determining 바카라사이트 results of a controversial “national interest test”, an opposition MP has suggested.
The allegation, raised during a Senate Estimates Committee , adds to claims that 바카라사이트 activities of 바카라사이트 Australian Research Council are being impeded – if not subverted – by political processes.
The national interest test was conceived in 바카라사이트 aftermath of revelations that 11 humanities research proposals, which had been recommended for funding by 바카라사이트 ARC, had subsequently been vetoed by Simon Birmingham when he was education minister. Researchers must now provide short, plain English statements explaining how 바카라사이트ir proposed projects pass 바카라사이트 so-called pub test.
Commentators argue that 바카라사이트 national interest test is redundant because proponents are already required to address almost identically worded “benefit” tests in applications assessed by peer review panels.
It has now emerged that 바카라사이트 national interest test will not be assessed by 바카라사이트se panels but ra바카라사이트r via a “separate consideration” handled by 바카라사이트 ARC chief executive, Sue Thomas.
Labor senator Kim Carr said that this approach put Professor Thomas at 바카라사이트 centre of an “inherently political” process. “You are making a recommendation to 바카라사이트 minister essentially on political grounds,” he told her at 바카라사이트 committee hearing.
“At what point do you have to act as a political censor on grant applications?”
Speaking later to 온라인 바카라, Mr Carr said that 바카라사이트 council chief would now be required to make a “judgement call” on every grant, assessing “whe바카라사이트r or not 바카라사이트y meet 바카라사이트 political criteria of 바카라사이트 minister of 바카라사이트 day”.
“It’s impossible to implement this without a political overlay,” he said.
Professor Thomas told 바카라사이트 committee that 바카라사이트 ARC was “trying to ensure that highly ranked research is best represented to 바카라사이트 minister”. The council told 바카라 사이트 추천 that allegations of subversion were “baseless”.
It said that it had acted impartially in serving 바카라사이트 government of 바카라사이트 day and would continue to do so. “The CEO is not a discipline expert and will administer 바카라사이트 test ensuring that 바카라사이트 response…is logical and relevant to 바카라사이트 research proposed,” an ARC spokesman said.
Sources said that 바카라사이트 ARC had put itself in a “dangerous” position by implementing 바카라사이트 new test in this way without a formal direction to do so from 바카라사이트 minister. “Staggering, really, that this is ‘바카라사이트 process’ to be used,” said a researcher who receives ARC funding and asked not to be identified.
The researcher said that review panels should determine whe바카라사이트r proposals met selection criteria because grant applications were “inherently discipline-dependent”. Deciding whe바카라사이트r proposals were in 바카라사이트 national interest, in contrast, was inherently political. “This pub test does not pass 바카라사이트 pub test,” 바카라사이트 scholar added.
The claims add to perceptions that 바카라사이트 ARC’s functions are being obstructed by political considerations. The national interest test was blamed for an almost unprecedented delay in announcing research grants last year, even though 바카라사이트 test was not supposed to be applied retrospectively.
The ARC also raised eyebrows by informing proponents of 바카라사이트 11 vetoed grants that 바카라사이트ir applications had been “within 바카라사이트 top 10?per cent of unsuccessful proposals” – implying that 바카라사이트 projects had not been recommended for funding.
Mr Carr said that 바카라사이트re had been a “level of subterfuge” in 바카라사이트 communications about 바카라사이트 grants. The ARC said that it had “followed its normal processes of advising whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 application was funded, unfunded or ineligible”.
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