Kim Carr continues to campaign for the independence of research selection. On Tuesday the Senate backed his motion that the government reveal why it blocked 11 Australian Research Council grants to humanities academics. It also ordered the government to produce the ARC’s in-coming brief to Minister Tehan, presumably for what it might reveal. The government has to 9.30 today to deliver, or come up wth some half-plausible excuse.
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