Lisa Chesters (Bendigo, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Nobel prize winner, Professor Brian Schmidt, said about the government's shameful attempt to hold 1,700 scientists and their work hostage for its own political purposes: 'This is not the way a grown-up country behaves. It is very childish.' Why did it take the government so long to back down on this childish plan?

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