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

The government’s white paper Powering ideas: an innovation agenda for the 21st centurya paper which, I would suggest to you, Senator, it would also be helpful that, if you ask a question like this, you actually read—outlined quite an extraordinary array of measures: the largest innovation agenda this country has seen since records began. We have of course seen no action from the opposition on these things. We have an opposition spokesperson on innovation who does not understand the meaning of the word and has made no effort whatsoever to get her head around the issues involved with this portfolio. In fact, what we see from the opposition is opposition for opposition’s sake—a Leader of the Opposition who has opposed everything, supports nothing and is in a state of despair since he lost the last election.