Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Together with the Minister for Industry, Innovation, Science and Research and various other members from this side of the House—and I hope there were some from the other side of the House—I attended last night in the Great Hall the annual awards for the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. This is a great gathering of the Australian scientific community because you bring together not just scientists at the pointy end—that is, those out there in laboratory land doing all those interesting things in white coats, which most of us in this room have no idea about—

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