Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

The government is confident that the priority of this country has to be high-skilled, high-wage jobs, particularly in manufacturing. Manufacturing does have a great future in this country. However, it will not be like the manufacturing of old. It will be a new manufacturing, based on high technologies, high skills and business innovation. We will make sure that researchers in science at our universities are very much at the forefront.