Taxpayers’ Union Hopes Marsden Fund Report Will Bring Smarter Research Investment
13 APRIL 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Taxpayers’ Union is welcoming yesterday’s release of MBIE’s Marsden Fund Assessment Report, and hopes that its recommendations will bring about smarter investment in research.
Taxpayers’ Union Researcher Matthew Rhodes says, “In the last round of Marsden Fund grants, $530,000 was handed out to figure out ‘what
is the Southland accent’, and the year prior, $600,000 was gifted to Professor Jane Kelsey to pontificate on apparent
‘embedded neoliberalism’ in New Zealand. Like many taxpayers, we asked whether there were higher priorities for taxpayer
money.”
“We look forward to the recommendations being adopted so that precious research money is better used to produce actual
benefits for taxpayers.”
ENDS