Science & Research
Science, technology and innovation are crucial to Australia's current and future prosperity
Adam is a fierce advocate for the importance of scientific research and the need for it to be adequately funded and supported.
While Australia’s expenditure on R&D as a proportion of GDP has increased, we are still below the OECD average and a long way from where we should be, which is up around 3% like Japan and Germany.
The government needs to make a commitment to increased R&D funding and set a national goal of at least 3% of GDP. That will require an increase in public funding but also a greater contribution from the private sector as well.
media-releases
23 Jun 2011
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott should rethink plans to associate with Lord Monckton, Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.
"Monck...
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10 May 2011
Senator Bob Brown held a press conference where he discussed the government's 2011-12 federal budget.
media-releases
10 May 2011
Public mental health and private mineral wealth are the big winners out of this year's budget, Greens Leader Bob Brown said tod...
media-releases
17 Jan 2011
After the hottest and wettest year in recorded history, the seas off northern Australia are also currently warmer than ever bef...
news-stories
19 Aug 2010
The Australian Greens 2010 Federal Election election policy initiatives.Click the link below to view the list &...
news-stories
15 Jul 2010
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office have produced a Google Earth map displaying the impacts of a 4º C temperature rise...
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14 Jul 2010
At this National Press Club I acknowledge the traditional owners of the Canberra region and all the Indigenous people of our na...
media-releases
25 Jan 2010
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has welcomed Professor Ross Garnaut's support for the Greens proposal for an interim carbon ...
media-releases
19 Dec 2009
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown says that, after the Copenhagen collapse, next year's federal election will be a referendum ...
event
25 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
On Monday hundreds of people came together at federal parliament to protest what is shaping up to be a shocker of an ETS, expec...
