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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I just wrote the attached and sent to Plibersek and my local member—am circulating it in the interests of pooling ideas (and I’ve drawn a bit from the Academy’s response as well as Anna’s points). Please feel free to
use/ amend/ improve and send! (*note the yellow highlights need to be customized). I hope I’ve got all the information right but I think a quick response has something to be said for it … if we do a more formal one later we can be even more fact-checky and
footnoted. Also NB Plibersek has already spoken against the changes & this is worth acknowledging up front I guess—while hoping she’ll also do more (that bit isn’t in the draft b/c this draft is my local member version).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">& season’s greetings… </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">😐</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Monday, 20 December 2021 at 4:54 pm<br>
<b>To: </b>"csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au" <csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[csaa-forum] Major changes to ARC funding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear CSAA community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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="background:white">Stuart
Robert (who is the acting minister for education and youth). These changes see <b><u>70% of all ARC funding focused on manufacturing</u></b>. Sounds unbelievable? You can read about it here:</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p9ydmrv" target="_blank">Letter of Expectations from Minister to ARC | Australian Research
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">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
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The government are taking $75 million away from of 'pure' research (DPs) to invest in LPs through research on:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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