Rolling out the Science in Society project. Lifting cross-government science investment by 70 per cent in eight years, to $1.5 billion in 2015/16. Increasing investment in the Marsden Fund from $36 million annually in 2008/09 to $52 million in 2014/15, to encourage more investigator-led, blue-skies research.
in favour of cultural policies or leisure facilities, for example museus, libraries or public sport clubs