The 2019 laureate fellows received their honorary pins at a Canberra ceremony, Thursday night

The member for Higgins, Dr Katie Allen was there, representing Minister Tehan and as a medical research scientist observers suggest she appeared to feel right at home, speaking enthusiastically about the importance of research. But some in the audience wondered if Dr Allen remembered that it was an Australian Research Council and not a National Health and Medical Research Council show and that laureate fellows there included national achievers from the humanities and social sciences as well as medicine and STEM.