The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering presents proposes two big-picture ambitions and one immediate outcome in its budget submission

ATSE urges the government to accelerate development of solar and wind generated electricity to achieve net zero national emissionsby 2050, if not earlier. And it calls for more STEM education in the compulsory school years, plus a “coordinated, national policy to overcome the various factors that discourage girls and womenfrom studying STEM, and that limit their opportunities to pursue careers in STEM-underpinned organisations.”

ATSE also advocates a 20 per cent premium for collaborating with public researchers in the R&D tax incentive.  “Australia needs to rethink the way public money is applied to research through a renewed focus on research commercialisation into high technology, high-value industries that drive economic and jobs growth.”