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Calls for billions of dollars to get Australian science breakthroughs up and running

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Calls for billions of dollars to get Australian science breakthroughs up and running

Some of our nation's greatest scientists who've pioneered breakthroughs in things like vaccines and the response to climate change are among those recognised in today's Australia Day honours...

But getting their ideas from their gifted minds and into the lab almost always comes down to money... of which many say there's not nearly enough of.

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Professor Mark Hutchinson - Director - ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics
Misha Schubert - CEO - Science and Technology Australia

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