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The innovation minister, Christopher Pyne, has told crossbench senators the government will only provide extra assistance for the car industry if they back down on their opposition to cuts to family tax benefits paid to low income families.

Pyne made the link in a meeting last week with crossbench senators Ricky Muir, John Madigan and Nick Xenophon and representatives from the automotive industry.

The meeting was discussing a plan to provide an additional $200m over four years under the Automotive Transformation Scheme (ATS) and broaden its criteria to assist new companies that might employ some of the tens of thousands of car workers who will be made redundant when the major carmakers leave Australia in 2017.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/16/pyne-links-auto-industry-aid-to-welfare-cuts-in-negotiations-with-crossbench

 

nasty...

morally bankrupt, despicable, contemptible, loathsome, hateful, detestable, idiotic, hypocritical...

... and suddenly it pours...

 

From Mr Pyne himself:

We are a nation built on the ideas and creativity of our forebears. 

Generations of Australians have been at the forefront of science and innovation for more than  200 years. Our achievements are numerous and today we still are producing the great researchers and the disruptive ideas.

But with a changing global economy and a decline in traditional manufacturing, our great challenge as a nation is to not just have the ideas, but have the ecosystem that allows Australians to pursue them.

That is why under the new Prime Minister, innovation has moved into the centre of public debate, and rightly so.

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However, innovation has to be more than just a collection of buzzwords and good intentions. We need a whole of government approach that will drive a cultural shift.

Our aim is a country with a growing entrepreneurial spirit, a citizenry who are prepared to pursue their ideas, prepared to take a risk and prepared to try again if they fail.

The future of our economy and maintaining our standard of living as a first world country depends on it.

It is therefore excellent timing that the inaugural StartupWeek Sydney begins on Friday, focusing on new and innovative businesses, a community that has never before seen this level of energy and momentum.

The Prime Minster has asked me to lead a cross-portfolio task force to develop an innovation agenda, a plan to unlock the growth potential of innovation, boosting our economy and creating jobs.

The growth potential here is remarkable.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/innovation/australia-can-be-the-startup-and-innovation-nation-under-new-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-20151022-gkfrff.html#ixzz3pL5L91Yg
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Blimey ! A 180 degree turn on the spot ! What a performance ! One can see that all the ills of this nation obviously nested in Tony Abbott's smugglers !... Or are politicians politicans?... that is to say going where the Turnbull wind of change takes them... or are they now telling us the same old shit with a new coat of paint?
We shall see.

 

right on the money...

The toon at top (last year) and destruction of the CSIRO climate research programme (this year) show the amazing foresight powers of Gus Leonisky... One can smell these things a million mile away.

 

Study toon at top...