Australia’s fisheries scientists will “bear the brunt” of a federal plan to cut $7 million from rural industry research funds to cover the cost of bureaucrats attending global meetings, a Senate inquiry has heard.
Tim Lester, operations manager for the Council of Rural Research and Development Corporations told the inquiry that the cut would result in some research projects being abandoned.
“It means that there are projects that will not be done,” he told a Senate rural affairs committee hearing in Canberra on 11 November.
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