Policy page-turner

The Parliamentary Library has a briefing book for the 46th parliament – with enough to keep members and senators busy to the 50th

The PL’s learned policy people point to two key issues on our patch:

* research and development funding, including investment as a share of GDP, the (endlessly unresolved) R&D tax incentive and calls for a translational research fund, to serve as non- medicine equivalent to the Medical Research Future Fund

* higher education: the PL sets out the past decade of difference in HE and VET policy and suggests; “the 46th Parliament will likely need to weigh up the advantages of large-scale changes to address distortions created by a decade of two-track reform, against the risks in terms of cost, complexity, diversity of providers, and challenges negotiating changes to VET with the states and territories.”

Like CMM said, that should keep them busy through to the 50th parly.


The Parliamentary Library has a briefing book for the 46th parliament – with enough to keep members and senators busy to the 50th

The PL’s learned policy people point to two key issues on our patch:

* research and development funding, including investment as a share of GDP, the (endlessly unresolved) R&D tax incentive and calls for a translational research fund, to serve as non- medicine equivalent to the Medical Research Future Fund

* higher education: the PL sets out the past decade of difference in HE and VET policy and suggests; “the 46th Parliament will likely need to weigh up the advantages of large-scale changes to address distortions created by a decade of two-track reform, against the risks in terms of cost, complexity, diversity of providers, and challenges negotiating changes to VET with the states and territories.” Like CMM said, that should keep them busy through to the 50th parly.


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