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

We heard from the shadow minister just then that it was a different portfolio. He has failed to understand the elements of the innovation program that we are trying to run. He has failed to understand the links between our university system, our public research and development scheme and our private research and development scheme. He has failed to grasp the fundamentals of the national innovation revolution that the government are pursuing. What we have here is an opposition that is locked in the past. What we have here is an opposition that is so out of touch with what is going on that it may actually have to—