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At the Senate's Estimates today, #Bishop waxed lyrical about the funds she has personally brought into ANU from Philanthropists in WA and elsewhere (Over $60M). She also mentioned that in 2019 ANU's financial position was 'vastly' better (ie. before she took it over), and then COVID happen, nasty Covid made everything dearer and expenditure went up apparently. That was the entire focus in her defence. Verbal garbage a plenty avoiding any explanations for ANU's alledged financial woes or financial mismanagement.
I blame the #Senators for focussing on #Bishop rather than ANU's financial management and the doctered financial reports which show something like $142M deficit whereas the auditors had the university with a $90M surplus. Instead they wasted time on student numbers, student scholarships and the Kambri programme giving Bishop the lecturn she gladly used. Funny though, she now accepts credit for turning the ANU financial position around -- just like that in a few months, magically.
It's also convenient that the interim #Vice Prof Brown was the one who made changes to RenewANU implementations in January this year and is implementing those changes now.
Senators Shoebridge, Pocock and Faruqui were more on point (on leadership and finance) and made a few uncomfortable - Covid came up again then. But it was confirmed that ANU's dire financial position stems from an accounting perspective (different buckets of money)
Giving Bishop an opportunity to glaze the cherry and ignore accounting practices was irresponsible. And I am now convinced that the Chancellor is blind to her conduct and reponsibility for the current state of affairs on campus.
Throughout, Bishop appears in total denial else she's completely clueless.
#ANU #RenewANU #SenateEstimates
If you haven't watched the Senate Estimate hearing with ANU Chancellors answering questions from Senators.
Link to Vid:
https://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Read_Listen/ParlView/video/3951731
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The acting ARC CEO is very confused about how webpages work.
Greens Sen. Mehreen Faruqi asked for an explanation in #SenateEstimates about ARC's accidental early publication of #DECRA outcomes.
Some magical thinking here🤯
"We looked into this"🤣🤌
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Help me out here. Are misinformation & disinformation really fundamental to Judaism? I thought that was just an 🇮🇱 Zionist thing.
Australian Jewish Association CEO Robert Gregory tells Senate Estimates that the AJA is against legislating to help stamp out misinformation and disinformation because he says it will mean that “Jewish practises which are thousands of years old could come under breach of the law”🤔
AJA’s President David Adler raised concerns and insisted that new misinformation laws will affect Jewish people “directly” because of their faith.
Bear in mind that there are religious exemptions in the Bill.
#AusPol
#Judaism
#disinformation
#misinformation
#SenateEstimates
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Here's the official announcement of the 2-stage process for #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 ▶️ https://www.arc.gov.au/news-publications/media/feature-articles/discovery-projects-scheme-two-stage-application-process
(On Thursday night, at #SenateEstimates, the ARC said they weren't in a position to say whether this would run for DP25. But now we have a video announcing it on Monday. Riiighhht.)
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ARC #SenateEstimates: 2-stage process for #DiscoveryProjects
Senator Mehreen Faruqi: Will this run for #DP25?
ARC: Announcement soon (“haven’t finalised”, “very close”) but no delay to 28th Nov opening date.
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ARC #SenateEstimates was last Friday night.
Topics
🔹#IndustryFellowships review needed
🔹Assessor scores for all schemes!
🔹Low-rank triage?
🔹3 months to approve grants?
🔹Outcomes emailed to applicants?
🔹ARC advice to #RaiseTheStipend?
🔹The unserious OppositionSummary🧵👇
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It's possible, though not confirmed, that the early and mid-career schemes, #IE23 & #IM23, are also being NIT-picked.
ARC said in #SenateEstimates there'd only be one round of NIT-picking👇
https://twitter.com/ARC_Tracker/status/1626382772821692417 -
Now in middle of ARC's goal period for #DP23 announcement, "2nd half Nov". But CEO stated in #SenateEstimates that #NITpicks might take 'til "end of month". So, early Dec?
History👇
DP23 started 2.5mo late coz of #DP22 #preprints & security checking stuff-ups -
Now in middle of ARC's goal period for #DP23 announcement, "2nd half Nov". But CEO stated in #SenateEstimates that #NITpicks might take 'til "end of month". So, early Dec?
History👇
DP23 started 2.5mo late coz of #DP22 #preprints & security checking stuff-ups -
Now in middle of ARC's goal period for #DP23 announcement, "2nd half Nov". But CEO stated in #SenateEstimates that #NITpicks might take 'til "end of month". So, early Dec?
History👇
DP23 started 2.5mo late coz of #DP22 #preprints & security checking stuff-ups -
Now in middle of ARC's goal period for #DP23 announcement, "2nd half Nov". But CEO stated in #SenateEstimates that #NITpicks might take 'til "end of month". So, early Dec?
History👇
DP23 started 2.5mo late coz of #DP22 #preprints & security checking stuff-ups -
Now in middle of ARC's goal period for #DP23 announcement, "2nd half Nov". But CEO stated in #SenateEstimates that #NITpicks might take 'til "end of month". So, early Dec?
History👇
DP23 started 2.5mo late coz of #DP22 #preprints & security checking stuff-ups -
@sangomahanty Yep. The ARC CEO mentioned in #SenateEstimates that NIT-picking of #DP23 would hopefully be complete by "end of November", which aligns with statements from DMers in the last few weeks. Their stated goal was for an announcement before end of Nov, but it may bleed into early Dec by the sounds of things.