Sunfish makes some very good points. Didn't anyone watch this week's episode of Utopia? You can get a research report to say anything you want. Which is why the PROCESS is important.
As a board member of an NFP which overseas a modest but significant research grant budget, I can say that NFP's go to great lengths to make the research allocation process both transparent and independent. I see no reason why CASA should be exempt from the governance processes that non government bodies are required to follow.