Budget's $1bn research boost is a welcome first step. Billions more, plus policy reforms, will be needed
- Written by Frank Larkins, Professor Emeritus and Former Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Melbourne
The federal budget injection of an extra A$1 billion of new money as a one-off allocation into the Research Support Program for 2021 is welcome news for the university research community. The stated goal is to ease some of the financial pain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and loss of international student fee revenue that has cross-subsidised...





