Before Christmas the Australian Academy of Science and Science and Science and Technology Australia wrote to the prime minister urging him to rectify the absence of a science minister in cabinet. “Four science ministers in three years have made it difficult enough for the minister of the day to provide leadership and for the science sector to feel any degree of certainty. No science minister at all makes it impossible,” they warned. Mr Turnbull has not replied.
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