Judith Troeth (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Campbell made a great issue at the start of his speech of not using figures and ‘figures only confuse people and mostly they are the wrong ones, anyway,’ and then proceeded to use several figures to prove his own case, which I thought was rather a strange thing to do. But he did make a claim that Australia only produces approximately two per cent of the world’s research innovation and output. The fact is, Senator Campbell—and you should have acknowledged this—that Australia is only a small player on the world stage.