Higher Education Support Amendment (Australia's Economic Accelerator) Bill 2022

The majority voted against a second reading amendment introduced by NSW Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Greens), which means it failed.

Amendment text

At the end of the motion, add ", but the Senate:

(a) notes that this bill:

(i) provides a significant amount of funding for research translation and commercialisation, and

(ii) provides absolutely no funding for pure research; and

(b) calls on the Government to:

(i) recognise that pure research is a public good with immense value,

(ii) recognise that pure research is as important and worthy of funding,

(iii) commit to substantially increasing funding for pure research, which has fallen significantly over the past three decades, and

(iv) commit to a substantial increase in stipends, given PhD candidates are increasingly struggling to make ends meet with stipends falling well below the minimum wage".