Australian govt funds OA repositories

Julie Bishop, Australia's Minister for Education, Science and Training, has allocated $25.5 million to build OA repositories at Australian universities as part of the country's new Research Quality Framework (RQF).  Here's the key part of today's press release:

$25.5 million - Australian Scheme for Higher Education Repositories [ASHER] programme - to assist with the establishment of university digital data storage systems that will allow research outputs to be submitted for RQF assessment. This programme builds on the Australian Government's $35 million investment in the research and development of data repository technology, funded as part of Backing Australia's Ability.

(Thanks to Colin Steele.)