Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL ACT 2001 - SECT 3

    The object of this Act is to establish a national body to:

  (a)   support Australian universities in conducting excellent research, including collaborative research with local, national and international partners, for Australia's economic, social, environmental and cultural benefit; and

  (b)   promote and conduct activities to shape and foster the Australian research landscape and community, including by supporting academic career pathways, expanding Indigenous knowledge systems and evaluating the excellence, impact and depth of Australian research; and

  (ba)   support Australian universities to attract and retain academic researchers and promote quality academic jobs; and

  (c)   support research integrity, promote ethical research and facilitate access to research publications and research data; and

  (d)   uphold peer review as a core process to identify excellent research; and

  (e)   administer funding of excellent pure basic research, strategic basic research and applied research in all disciplines under the National Competitive Grants Program, except experimental development; and

  (f)   administer funding for nationally significant research programs; and

  (g)   provide expert advice on research to the Commonwealth Government; and

  (h)   partner with other Commonwealth entities to deliver research grants by those other entities.

Note:   Research does not include medical research (see section   4). The National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992 deals with funding for medical research.