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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Most of us are on our annual leave. I wanted to email the list in case some people do not yet know about the major changes made to ARC funding last week by <span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Stuart
Robert (who is the acting minister for education and youth). These changes see<span style="margin:0px"> </span><u><b>70% of all ARC funding focused on manufacturing</b></u>. Sounds unbelievable? You can read about it here:</span>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">I think that the way the funding research schemes work probably need to be explained to the voting public, as do the implications for this huge change, which extend well beyond stopping 'pure' research
into changing children's educational futures. I think we all need to begin discussions about this issue with politicians, family members, friends.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Would be great to see mainstream media cover this change, which has strategically occurred when Parliament has finished sitting and everyone is on annual leave, trying not to catch COVID while xmas
shopping. </div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">The government are taking $75 million away from of 'pure' research (DPs) to invest in LPs through research on:</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">-Resources technology</div>
<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">-Critical minerals processing</div>
<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">-Food and beverages</div>
<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">- Medical products</div>
<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">- Recyling and clean energy</div>
<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">-Defence</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">These research areas already have other specific schemes allocated to them, and money its being taken away from inventive research (including all arts, humanities and social sciences funding) to focus
on these areas only. I think ALL LPs need to be in manufacturing now, including CoEs, but need my RO to confirm this. </div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">This is about more than the culture wars - the implications for society and education are huge, and I think we all need to rally against these changes. I have included links to some industry specific
reportage below but more mainstream discussion would be good.</div>
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