university: Liberal MP Chris Crewther's superannuation fund owns shares in Gretals Australia, which is working on a project with the University of Melbourne, according to Nine News Australia. The university applied for and received a federally funded research grant through the Australian Research Council. To improve your experience update it here News National Labor doubts Lib MP Crewther's eligibility By AAP7 37pm Dec 5, believes legal advice shows another federal MP is ineligible to sit in parliament because of their financial interests in a company. Under section 44 of the constitution, MPs are banned if they receive profit from federal funding sources. But Mr Crewther says his own legal advice puts him in the clear. It follows, in our view, that if Mr Crewther holds an indirect pecuniary interest in the ARC funding agreement, then he is incapable of sitting as a member in the House of Representatives, and his seat is thereby vacated, lawyers Matthew Collins and Siohban Kelly told Labor.
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