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Bill shorten addressing STEM leaders at the Shine Dome
28 November 2018

Major parties to use science and technology to persuade voters at next election

Announcements from both of the major parties today has marked out science and technology as an area of competition in next year’s Federal election. Both parties have announced plans to improve the way they engage with the science, technology, engineering and mathematics sector – the government through a new Science and Technology Council, and the […]

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Bill Shorten delivering his Budget Reply speech
11 May 2018

STA welcomes Opposition focus on education and STEM skills

Science & Technology Australia has welcomed the Federal Opposition’s pledge to strengthen Australia’s future prosperity through science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and increase the number of STEM skilled people within the Australian workforce. In his Federal Budget Reply Speech the Opposition Leader, the Hon Bill Shorten MP, said a Labor government would lift caps on commonwealth-supported university […]

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NRIA meeting Bill Shorten and Kylie Walker
17 August 2017

Statement from the National Research and Innovation Alliance

This media release was distributed on behalf of the National Research and Innovation Alliance. Basic research and long-term funding focus welcomed by Australia’s research leaders The National Research and Innovation Alliance welcomes Labor’s science, innovation and research agenda outlined today by the Opposition Leader, the Hon Bill Shorten MP. The Opposition Leader laid out his […]

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Science meet Business 2016
9 March 2016

Science meets Parliament – 2016 Wrap Up

The 16th annual Science meets Parliament took place on 1 and 2 March 2016. It brought 200 working scientists to Canberra for a two-day program of professional development and networking aimed at helping them better communicate their science to the media, policy makers and parliamentarians. Presentations by Leader of Opposition, the Hon Bill Shorten MP, Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan […]

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