Bill
Higher Education Support Amendment (Australia’s Economic Accelerator) Bill 2022
passed, as at 2023-03-14. Education portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Education
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-12-01
- second reading — 2022-12-01
- other — 2023-02-08
- second reading — 2023-02-08
- second reading — 2023-02-08
- other — 2023-02-09
- third reading — 2023-02-09
- introduced — 2023-02-09
- second reading — 2023-02-09
- second reading — 2023-03-06
- second reading — 2023-03-06
- committee — 2023-03-06
- third reading — 2023-03-06
- other — 2023-03-07
- other — 2023-03-07
- passed — 2023-03-07
- royal assent — 2023-03-14
Divisions
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Australia's Economic Accelerator) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Support pure research — 2023-03-06, Senate: negative, ayes 14, noes 29
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Australia's Economic Accelerator) Bill 2022 - in Committee - Greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets — 2023-03-06, Senate: affirmative, ayes 35, noes 25
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2022-12-01.
This bill would let the minister give grants for industry-led postgraduate research and for university research that moves technologies towards commercial readiness in priority sectors.
It sets up an Australia's Economic Accelerator Advisory Board of up to eight members to advise the minister on grants and a research commercialisation strategy updated every five years.
The board must produce an annual investment plan and a yearly report to parliament on program performance and barriers to commercialising university research.
- Allow the minister to make grants under Part 2-3 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 for industry-led postgraduate programs.
- Create the Australia's Economic Accelerator Advisory Board to advise the minister and oversee priority managers.
- Require a research commercialisation strategy every five years, with the first one due soon after the amendments start.
- Mandate an annual investment plan from the board each financial year.
- Require the board to give the minister an annual report for parliament.
- Add new rules for handling program information.
Higher education providers, researchers, industry partners, and the Australia's Economic Accelerator Advisory Board and its priority managers.
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