Greetings

In the lead up to the election FASTS will be concentrating on a number of key themes in our media releases/opinion pieces and lobbying political parties.

The key theme has to be skills and relation to productivity (K-12 and tertiary) - which includes funding issues, science education, career pathways etc

Other themes

• adaptation to climate change – science, infrastructure, skills and data

• internationalisation of science

• preparedness and its relation to why we do public sector science (risk minimisation, public benefits, early warning for industry etc)

I would welcome any imput (data, concrete examples etc) on these broad themes and if there are other issues you would like to see FASTS put on the agenda then please let me know.

A few quick dot points is fine just to get things flowing.

Cheers


Bradley Smith
Executive Director
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
FASTS
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