Annette Hurley (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is a political matter by the opposition and one that is not supported by anyone on this side, because this government has been the one that has supported the CSIRO and its research efforts. Indeed, in the last budget the government increased funding to CSIRO by $43 million, or 6.4 per cent, and allocated more money to the national research vessel—$120 million. It provided $30 million for an expanded Atlas of Living Australia, $80 million for a new Square Kilometre Array science centre, $36 million for the Australian Synchrotron and so on. The government has demonstrated time and time again its support for the CSIRO and its determination to see it as an independent research organisation.