Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given that the minister has failed to identify the particular recommendations of the report, seven out of 10 of which are actually highly critical of this government’s response in innovation, I ask him: is it not the case that the Productivity Commission has also rejected the government’s botched management of the Cooperative Research Centres program, which was established under Labor, and has argued that ‘the original objectives of the program should be reinstated’? Minister, I ask you again: isn’t it the case that the government’s approach to innovation is little more than rhetoric and red tape?