Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Carr. I refer to the minister’s previous answers today and his dogged refusal to acknowledge the severe cost of axing Commercial Ready to individual innovators right around the country. Is the minister saying that one of Australia’s most distinguished scientists, Sir Gustav Nossal, was wrong when he described the axing of Commercial Ready as ‘short-sighted’ and that Mr David Henderson of UniQuest, the company who commercialised the anticancer drug, Gardasil, was wrong when he warned that we will see ‘less Australian techs moving into the marketplace’ and that the CEO of Cochlear, the bionic ear company, was also wrong when he said that the decision was ‘the saddest and dumbest decision of the entire budget’?