COMMONWEALTH COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE PROGRAM

298 Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite) (23 August 2011) (First Session). With respect to 2011-12 Budget Paper 4—Volume 2, p196—

Who were the four recipients of grant support from the Commonwealth's Cooperative Research Centre Program, which two were successful and how much did they each receive?

The Hon. T.R. KENYON (Newland—Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for Recreation and Sport): The four bids supported by the South Australian Government were:

CRC for Contamination and Remediation of the Environment

CRC Next Generation Australian Pork

Future Biofuels

Heritage Futures

As stated in the budget papers, only two of these bids were successful in receiving Commonwealth support these two bids were:

CRC for Contamination and Remediation of the Environment; and

CRC Next Generation Australian Pork

These successful SA bids were existing CRCs seeking extensions. The CRC CARE will receive a total of $29 million and CRC Pork a total of $20 million from the Commonwealth. Both CRCs sought eight year extensions and this funding will conclude in 2019.

DFEEST has existing contractual arrangements with these particular CRCs (due to expire in 2011-12) which will now to be extended. Each CRC has been allocated $100,000 per annum over three years (2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15).