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Title

QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: ADDITIONAL ANSWERS

Communications: Funding

Database

Senate Hansard

Date

02-12-2003

Source

Senate

Parl No.

40

Electorate

Victoria

Interjector

 

Page

18648

Party

LP

Presenter

 

Status

Final

Question No.

 

Questioner

 

Responder

 

Speaker

Kemp, Sen Rod

Stage

Communications: Funding

Type

 

Context

Questions Without Notice

System Id

chamber/hansards/2003-12-02/0042


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Tuesday, 2 December 2003
Page: 18648


Senator KEMP (Minister for the Arts and Sport) (3:02 PM) —Last week Senator Murphy asked me a question regarding the extension of funding for the BITS program and the public release of two reports on the program. I undertook to provide additional information to Senator Murphy. I seek leave to incorporate the response, which has been provided by the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The answer read as follows—

The Government is currently considering evaluation reports of the BITS Incubator program (including the Tasmanian incubator) and the BITS Advanced Networks Program. These reports will inform Government in its Budget deliberations. The Government will consider public release of these evaluation reports when decisions on the future of the programs have been taken, subject to the protection of any commercially sensitive information.