According to A*Star, funding to the sector as a whole has gone up 8 per cent to $4 billion for 2016 to 2020, compared with the previous five-year period, although 40 per cent will be for competitive funding, up from 20 per cent before.
But the agency was silent on the extent of the latest round of cuts.
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