黑料老司机 is the peak body for Australia鈥檚 39 comprehensive universities,聽which educate more than a million students and undertake research to add to the stock of聽advanced knowledge, and has been valued at more than $160 billion.聽Universities are mindful of the need to support an appropriate legislative framework to maintain聽national security. As part of their daily business, universities already comply with a vast array of聽regulatory instruments, often numbering into the hundreds, including a range of legislation聽supporting national security, including autonomous sanctions regimes and the Defence Trade聽Controls Act 2012 (which is designed to ensure that sensitive Australian technology is not聽inappropriately provided to outside nations). However, 黑料老司机 is concerned that the聽Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill 2017 has the potential to stifle innovation and聽valuable academic research, as well as compromising the ability of Australia鈥檚 universities to聽develop a philanthropic culture in Australia.
