Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

It is good to get that clarification. If there were a change in personnel at a workshop or conference, that would be an exempt minor issue. You talked about the consultations that have been had with the universities, but you didn't go to my question, which was: what assurances are you able to give them so they have confidence in entering into research arrangements and contracts with the entities that are captured? I want to ask that question again. I also want to follow up on your response that there is a limited number of these universities or other organisations that don't have institutional autonomy. Does the department have an estimate of how many of these there are that Australian universities already have arrangements with? How many would be currently captured, and how many of these organisations globally are covered? If you say it's limited, you must have an approximation of what that limited number is.