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Need to be SMARTer over science

By Dennis Jensen - posted Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Our Western Australian Premier, Colin Barnett clearly sees the importance of science, and recognises the need for an identified single minister responsible.

Premier Colin Barnett has seen the portfolio as so critical that he has taken that portfolio on himself.

These issues of Defence and Science are critical to our future, and we neglect them, or downgrade their importance, at our peril.

We are a great country, and this is not something that our nation can afford.

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This is an edited extract of Dennis Jensen's speech to the parliament last night.

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About the Author

Dr Dennis Jensen is the Liberal federal member for Tangney in Western Australia. A former air traffic controller, CSIRO and later Defence research scientist, and defence analyst, he was widely recognised as one of the rising stars on John Howard’s backbench. He’s played an important part in Australia’s air capability debate.