If there is one lobby that does not need any help in making its case it’s medical research (check recipients in every Order for Australia list)

But needing and knowing how to use more help are different things and the industry will undoubtedly welcome the launch of the Parliamentary Friends of Medical Research. It’s co-chaired by Clare O’Neil (Labor-Victoria) and Katie Allen (Lib-Vic) who knows of what she shall speak. She is a food allergy scientist, formerly at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.