2015 Budget - Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

By Paul Kniest (NTEU National Office). In an article entitled  Science research spared the budget axe (The Australian of 7 May 2015)  Sarah Martin wrote:

funding for the National Collabor­ative and Research Infrastructure Strategy will be given a two-year reprieve, with funding until 2017.

The story goes on to say that $300m for NCRIS, as the NTEU predicted in a recent briefing paper (2015 Federal Budget: What surprises for higher education?),  is expected “to be offset by cuts to other higher education research grants, most likely so-called “block” funding.”
Therefore, science and research is not to be spared the budget axe at all. More...