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It is important to remember that our policies about incentives/reimbursements/compensation, as well as our review feedback, can result in researchers using language that they think is clever but to the rest of us just sounds odd. In Australia, the National Statement does allow for incentives, especially for research that involves no greater than a low risk of harm. Hopefully, your institution has produced useful resource material to help researchers interpret and understand the provisions in the National Statement.