Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Science, Technology and Personnel) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, in writing, on 23 March 2011:

(1) How many think tanks or policy institutes are funded by the Minister's department, and

(a) what are

(i) their names, and

(ii) key areas of research, and

(b) in what office/agency within the department do they fall.

(2) What sum of funding was provided to each of the think tanks or policy institutes in part (1) in

(a) 2007-08,

(b) 2008-09,

(c) 2009-10, and

(d) 2010-11.

(3) For each think tank or policy institute in part (1), on what date

(a) was an announcement made that it would be formed, and

(b) did it commence operating.

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