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INQUIRY INTO ACADEMIC SALARIES

To-day Senator Gorton, Minister in Charge of Commonwealth

Activities in Education and Research, announced the appointment

of two assessors to assist Mr. Justice Eggleston in his Inquiry

to advise the Commonwealth Government on the levels of acedemic

salaries which could appropriately "be adopted "by it for the

purpose of calculating recurrent grants for universities. The

term of reference of the Inquiry are :-"To advise the Government on the standard salary or  of range of salaries for a professor and the standard   salary range for a reader or associate professor which   the Inquiry considers should "be adopted as a measure of  academic salaries to "be used "by the Australian Universities   Commission for the purpose of recommending grants to "be  made to universities, including the Australian National   University, for recurrent expenditure,"

Senator Gorton said that the Government had chosen

Professor D.P. DERHAM, M.B.E.,  B.DÃ¢ÂÂ,  IÃ¢ÂÂS,M.,  Dean of the

Faculty of Law at Monash University, as an assessor with

special knowledge of uplverisities and Mr. M.C. TIMES, B,EcÃ¢ÂÂ,

A.A.S.A*, General Manager of the Australian Atomic Energy

Commission as an assessor with experience in Government service.

The Minister added that these appointments would take effect

immediately and that MrÃ¢ÂÂ Justice Eggleston would proceed with

arrangements for the Inquiry. .

The Minister recalled that the purpose of the Inquiry

is to assist the Commonwealth in deciding the standard for

salary purposes it should take into account in determining the

level of recurrent grants for universities during.the 1964/1966

triennium. As already announced the Government’s findings on

this will he made retrospective to January 1, 1964= Senator

Gortc-n also explained that the Commonwealth was. not setting

out to fix salaries at universities as this is a function of

the State authorities.

CANBERRA

June 30, 1964 - P .M .

