Rural Research and Development for Profit

In reply to Mr PEDERICK (Hammond) (17 June 2014).

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL (Mawson—Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Recreation and Sport, Minister for Racing): The $100 million four-year Rural Research and Development for Profit is an Australian government program announced in the May federal budget. The federal government will release program guidelines, including details on research priorities for the first round of funding, in the coming months. The program will be administered by the Department of Agriculture, not the research and development corporations, and will be a competitive grants round.

As such, it is not possible to indicate what South Australia's share of this funding will be.