AAMRI 2025 Election Statement
28 March 2025
This Federal election, AAMRI is calling for immediate action to ensure the survival of the nation’s health and medical research sector, which has reached crisis point.
As Australia’s health and medical research sector struggles to meet surging research costs while navigating Australia’s complex, fragmented and inefficient funding system, the sector is on the brink of collapse.
The AAMRI 2025 Election Statement makes the case for a government intervention, calling on all parties and candidates to commit to three key strategic priorities:
Priority 1 – Increase investment in health and medical research to cover the full costs, including releasing unallocated Medical Research Future Funds and increasing National Health and Medical Research Council funding by $120 million annually to cover the full salaries of researchers’ awarded grants.
Priority 2 – Develop a National Health and Medical Research Workforce Plan as part of the National Health and Medical Research Strategy.
Priority 3 – Increase national R&D investment to 3% of GDP, using a public and private sector approach and guided by Strategic Examination of Australia’s Investment in R&D, with the increased in investment to be directed towards funding the full costs of research.
AAMRI is actively seeking responses from the major parties and crossbenchers
For more in-depth discussion of the current issues and opportunities, read the full AAMRI 2025 Election Statement – Position Paper.
Media coverage received
- March 18, 2025 – Herald Sun OpEd by Dr Elizabeth Hartland – Trump’s folly is already here
Campaign videos
Releasing the unspent funds in the Medical Research Future Fund
Building the foundation to support the full costs of Australian medical research