Commissioning research that can shape a regulatory agenda

McKinnon — named research commissioner

McKinnon is the organisation named as commissioning two Reset research projects on platform transparency and the Australian misinformation code. Its public account describes commissions across 2023–2024; the research preserves uncertainty about the precise historical contracting entity within the wider group.

The identifiable outputs

The two named reports are Functioning or Failing? in May 2024 and Achieving Digital Platform Public Transparency in June 2024. An April 2024 briefing separately acknowledges support. The disclosures do not establish that the briefing was another paid commission or state the fees. Current group-entity listings cannot substitute for the signatures on the historical agreements.

What the records show

McKinnon — named research commissionerAchieving Digital Platform Public Transparency —June2024

reports commissioning comparative transparency research

Commissions reported across2023-24; exact date for this commission unknown; reportJune2024

Commission of this report identified among commissions reported across2023-24. Exact commission date unallocated by source; no disclosed amount, clearance rights or fee schedule. Present privacy-policy entity does not prove historic counterparty.

McKinnon — named research commissionerFunctioning or Failing? —May2024

reports commissioning misinformation-code research

Commission identified2023; reportMay2024; exact contract/payment dates unknown

McKinnon identifies2023 commission; May2024 report says early2023 approach and describes Reset designing methods. Fee, historic legal party, IP/publication approval and donor-required conclusions unknown.

McKinnon — named research commissionerRegulating for Transparency —April2024

briefing acknowledges support

BriefingApril2024

Amount/form unknown. Not automatically one of the two separate named commissions or a fresh additional payment. Recipient retains errors/omissions responsibility; attendance not endorsement.

From the investigation

Reset.Tech Australia: three documented funding instruments

The most consequential bridge is McKinnon's commission of two identified reports, one of which expressly recommends considering a duty of care and the other of which transmits EU and UK transparency models. Mannifera supplies a quantified award for advocacy during the Online Safety Act review. The Internet Society Foundation award has a different, documented children's-privacy research purpose.

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Integration limit and next obtainable records

The narrow next records are the Mannifera/ACF grant letter and disbursement record identifying Reset's legal counterparty and restrictions; the Foundation's executed phase-two agreement, amendments and instalment reconciliation; and McKinnon's 2023/24 scopes of work, executed contracts and publication-clearance provisions. Likely custodians are the named grantor/administrator and Reset. Their absence here leaves payment timing and substantive approval rights unresolved, not presumed absent. No request or outreach has been made.

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Reading and custody

All URLs above are primary issuer/recipient/ABR records. Access state is read only for the stated passages; no whole-report content audit is claimed. Source ancestry: existing funding note supplied discovery; McKinnon's page links the commissioned recipient outputs; financial statements are published on McKinnon's Storyblok asset host; ABR independently supplies registered identity/history. These are not ACNC mirrors accessed through a workaround. Search results on ACNC/storage and unrelated biographies were excluded without opening.

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Candidate directional relations and limits

The next discriminating records are the 2023/24 executed Reset engagement letters and scopes , identifying legal counterparties, fee, milestones, publication rights and approval/termination terms; Research Committee terms of reference, membership/appointment resolutions and relevant minutes ; and the single-member register and constitutions in force when those decisions were made. Custodians are McKinnon's historical entities/current records holder and Reset. Appointment resolutions would distinguish founders' public sponsorship of appointments from their actual legal power. Contract allocation records would determine whether the Research Centre route applies to these commissions. None was obtained, and no contact was made.

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Further reading

Reset.Tech Australia: three documented funding instruments

McKinnon's commissioning governance

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What the connections say

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McKinnon — named research commissionerreports commissioning misinformation-code researchFunctioning or Failing? —May2024

Commission identified2023; reportMay2024; exact contract/payment dates unknown

Reported by the cited source

McKinnon identifies2023 commission; May2024 report says early2023 approach and describes Reset designing methods. Fee, historic legal party, IP/publication approval and donor-required conclusions unknown.

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McKinnon — named research commissionerreports commissioning comparative transparency researchAchieving Digital Platform Public Transparency —June2024

Commissions reported across2023-24; exact date for this commission unknown; reportJune2024

Reported by the cited source

Commission of this report identified among commissions reported across2023-24. Exact commission date unallocated by source; no disclosed amount, clearance rights or fee schedule. Present privacy-policy entity does not prove historic counterparty.

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McKinnon — named research commissionerfunding page identifies distinct entity within organizationFormer Susan McKinnon Research Centre Ltd

Reported by the cited source

Group listing is not a contract signature, ownership percentage or allocation of a Reset commission. Historical entity names and current aliases remain distinct.

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