12 July, 2010
Labor must follow the Coalition’s lead and cut further money from its wasteful Green Car Innovation Fund, after revelations that there is poor demand from car buyers for Toyota’s Hybrid Camry.
It has been reported that sales of the locally-built hybrid (the first vehicle to be subsid...
01 June, 2010
Another day, another broken promise from the Rudd Government – this time over the funding of a science and innovation initiative.
At a Senate Estimates hearing on Monday, Industry Minister Kim Carr begrudgingly accepted that Labor has completely neglected its commitment to fund a group of so-...
01 June, 2010
Under pressure in Senate Estimates questioning, Industry Minister Kim Carr has condemned those who criticise the Government’s proposed research and development tax changes as “losers” and “stuffed pigs”.
Shadow Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister, Sophie Mirabella, said Senato...
09 April, 2010
The Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, attended an important defence industry meeting at Bruck Textiles in Wangaratta today. The meeting focused on the important role that defence related businesses have in maintaining and developing and indigenous manufacturing capability.
“Defence man...
04 March, 2010
Sophie Mirabella MP, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, said that scientific integrity at the CSIRO has taken a back seat to the political game playing of the Rudd Government.
“In a clear abuse of the scientific process, the Minister for Science, Kim Carr, today contin...
01 March, 2010
Sophie Mirabella MP, Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research said today that details of the draft national science curriculum represent a step back for science education.
“Political correctness has taken hold of the science curriculum, with Chinese traditional...
26 February, 2010
Negative publicity across several industries criticising the Government’s proposed changes to research and development have unsettled the sensitive Rudd Labor Government.
After ignoring submissions on proposed R & D changes last year Treasury has now been forced to backflip and say “the...
12 February, 2010
This week the Minister for Defence Science, Materiel and Personnel, Greg Combet, backfliped on his Government’s secret plan to buy combat fabric from China. The Minister’s claim that the Chinese supply was just an “option”, contradicts Defence confirmation of the contract and the Indi Labor ca...
11 February, 2010
Over 7000 users of the Governments current research and development tax concession will be surprised to discover the Government labels them as rorters.
The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, wants to restrict the scheme because he says it is subject to bogus claims and...
10 February, 2010
The Minster for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, Greg Combet, has indicated that only today he overturned a decision to buy Chinese made camouflage fabrics for the Australian Defence Force.
It was revealed in Senate Estimates today that this Chinese tender was 10% cheaper than the Bruck t...