{"id":299,"date":"2013-09-27T09:13:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T09:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:14:18","slug":"australian-research-council-rejects-funding-to-research-growing-problem-of-forced-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/australian-research-council-rejects-funding-to-research-growing-problem-of-forced-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Research Council rejects funding to research growing problem of forced marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>CRUCIAL funding to research the growing problem of teenage forced marriages was rejected by the under-fire Australian Research Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The federal and NSW governments have both questioned the decision to reject funding for the study, saying they fear child-bride marriages are far more common than previously thought.\u00a0Associate Professor Jennifer Burn from the University of Technology, Sydney and Director of Anti-Slavery Australia, said she applied for funding to explore the issue of forced marriages in NSW, but her application was &#8220;knocked back&#8221; by the Council earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com.au\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CDUQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytelegraph.com.au%2Fnews%2Fnsw%2Fchild-bride-reveals-the-dark-secret-of-unspoken-crime-in-sydney%2Fstory-fni0cx12-1226714052940&amp;ei=O4A7UobHD4byiAfohoDgCw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFU0llqK9Yzyg__N_J9-kRO5VHbNA&amp;bvm=bv.52434380,d.aGc\">Child bride reveals the dark secret of unspoken crime in Sydney<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Australian Research Council (ARC) has been accused by the newly-elected federal government of &#8220;wasteful&#8221; spending on unnecessary projects.\u00a0This includes grants for research into how people could adapt to climate change through public art, and another project into the meaning of &#8220;I&#8221; involving a retrospective study of 18th and 19th century German existentialists.\u00a0Ms Burn said the area of forced marriages was under-researched and her project sought to quantify how prevalent it was in the community.\u00a0&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of work to be done,&#8221; Ms Burn told\u00a0<i>The Sunday Telegraph<\/i>, adding that in NSW it was widely suspected to be a much bigger problem than on paper.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/australian-research-council-rejects-funding-to-research-growing-problem-of-forced-marriages\/story-fnii5s3y-1226723284497\">http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/australian-research-council-rejects-funding-to-research-growing-problem-of-forced-marriages\/story-fnii5s3y-1226723284497<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRUCIAL funding to research the growing problem of teenage forced marriages was rejected by the under-fire Australian Research Council. 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