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

I think I have been answering the question quite directly and quite specifically. What we have here is an opposition that has failed to grasp the fundamentals of the need for a national innovation strategy. We have an opposition here that has been stuck in the past. We have a government that has actually committed to an innovation revolution in this country. We have an opposition that is out of touch and way out of time, and fails to understand the fundamentals of this whole policy agenda. What we have here is an opportunity, an opportunity for the opposition to come forward and support the government in its bid to see a fundamental shift in the culture of innovation that this country so desperately needs. I look forward to the opposition’s support for the national innovation review report, which is due in a little over a month.