ALP, Liberals and Greens Reply to FASTS "Challenge" in Their Own Fashions. (August 18, 2010)

The Executive Director, Anna-Maria Arabia, of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) has now had replies from the nation's major political parties regarding FASTS' Challenge to the Contestants of the 2010 Federal Election: declare your commitment to science and innovation as core drivers of the national economy.

Ms Arabia writes:

Responses from the Australian Labor Party, Liberal/National Coalition, and The Greens to the FASTS Election Questionnaire have been received.

The questionnaire and a table comparing policies and positions across Parties are available at www.fasts.org

Please note: where questions have not been directly answered, an attempt has been made to extract the most relevant information from the statement provided by the Parties. To ensure you can also view the questionnaire responses in their entirety, a link to the complete documents received by FASTS are available for download from the FASTS website.

Herewith we reproduce the first page of the 13-page tabulation provided by FASTS.

Click Here  to retrieve the 13-page tabulation.