The AAAS' CEO Alan Leshner's Editorial in the May 16 Issue of Science is as Pertinent for Australia as for the United States. (May 16, 2008)

The Rudd Labor government's 2008-09 allocation for the  Australian Research Council is up 5.9% from last year. With inflation expected to top 4% Senator Kim Carr's, When societies invest in science, they are investing in their own future, rings a bit hollow.