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
Attached: 1 image Hi Minister Jason Clare 👋 We fund fewer than half as many basic, blue-sky, ARC discovery projects than in 2010. The collapse has continued in the last 2 years. Please, increase ARC funding for discovery research like all the reviews recommend. Data▶️ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyITNrCVt7pdLiUzyvC99q7l_X99rCS68r8_3i3h85s/edit?usp=sharing
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