It has been clear for some years that Australia’s governments are no longer able to keep up with the pace of scientific progress.

Fast-emerging issues such as climate change, the water crisis, the internet, nanotechnology, gene modification, stem cells, extinctions and future energy are leaving our politicians and bureaucrats flat-footed. And, for all the election hype about “Australia’s future” there is hardly a whisper about science – the main means by which that future will be delivered.

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