The ARC is up at #SenateEstimates this Friday. As per tradition, they come in last on the schedule ▶️ https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Senate_estimates/ee

I'm sure there won't be many questions about ANU & TEQSA, so there'll definitely be time for lengthly discussion about the ARC 🫠

As usual in ARC #SenateEstimates, Coalition Sen. Henderson attacked individual researchers & projects 🚮

She went on about the Oz article (confected for Estimates fodder) on ARC projects “wasting taxpayer money”.

But … one was approved by the Coalition 🤭
https://youtu.be/0JZUOQSLJXc

Sen. Mehreen Faruqi asked ARC, again, in #SenateEstimates if they can just email outcomes with a short publicity embargo.

ARC tries to sell their tweet-a-day-before as a "system we've developed" that’s "gone past [the embargo] approach".

The spin, man😒
https://youtu.be/cR6JyqfVY28

"I think it’s a real mess to put researchers in that position"

Sen. Mehreen Faruqi asks in #SenateEstimates why ARC ask applicants to assess other applications to the same scheme.

Seems like an obvious conflict of interest!?

ARC say they're reviewing their peer review system!

https://youtu.be/VOGd1jCHDRY

ARC were asked by Sen. Mehreen Faruqi in #SenateEstimates about the rapid decline in the number of Discovery Projects.

They didn’t answer the question at all. Instead they wanted to "check the data". How uninformed about their own schemes can the ARC be??
https://youtu.be/LAPZzczJY98

The acting ARC CEO is very confused about how webpages work.

Greens Sen. Mehreen Faruqi asked for an explanation in #SenateEstimates about ARC's accidental early publication of #DECRA outcomes.

Some magical thinking here🤯

"We looked into this"🤣🤌
https://youtu.be/rvf2t0TAOCo

ARC is up at #SenateEstimates tonight (Thursday), bringing up the rear of the program yet again, at ~9:30pm (AEDT) ▶️ https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Senate_estimates/ee

I'll try to watch it and report back.

ARC #SenateEstimates

Yesterday the ARC answered questions on the following:
🔹Delay to DECRAs
🔹Discovery Projects 2-stage process

Short 🧵 reporting the basics👇

ARC appears before #SenateEstimates this Thursday, once again securing the least convenient time on the agenda, ~9:00pm (AEST) ▶️ https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Senate_estimates/ee

ARC basically only answered "we'll take that on notice" last time. Hope they find some actual answers this time.