Senate debates Questions without Notice

National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy


Tim Ayres

Tim Ayres NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation

2:48 pm

In the budget, the National Resilience and Science Council was established, and it will be legislated. It will direct the work of Australia's research and development, our commercialisation capability and our industrial policy. We will deliver legislation to the parliament in the normal way. It is a mobilisation effort to harness our national research and development capacity in the Commonwealth, in the states and in the university sector and point them at Australia's big challenges.

Senator, you might find it offensive to have somebody say to you that what you do is complain and not deliver, but you find it perfectly fine, including in your contributions earlier today—

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