Election year:
2023
Political party:
Green Party
Policy:
Science and Research
- Significantly increase total investment in RS&T and reduce organisational complexity, transaction costs and overheads associated with funding decisions and research delivery.
- Introduce clear ethical investment guidelines for the Government's venture capital funds.
- Change the existing sector-focused and corporatised science model in Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) and universities into one that that enables crossdisciplinary research, focuses on public good and economic transformation, and is more enabling and empowering of science and innovation.
- Require environmental education and ethics to be parts of all scientific programs of study, including science education.
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