Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

I have been urged to change the guidelines. It was the previous government that changed the guidelines to withdraw public benefit support as the basis for selection in these rounds. What we have undertaken to do is to provide the assistance we have for the CRC program. There has been an extensive review but, at the end of the day, there were 10 other CRCs that did not get through that particular round on the basis of the advice of the expert panel. (Time expired)