What a coincidence! On Monday Innovation and Science Australia recommended a national investment in precision medicine and yesterday the Australian Council of Learned Academies produced a similar suggestion. “The implementation of a national program of precision medicine will also provide a necessary incentive to expand and improve tertiary education and training opportunities in human genomics and related fields, for which Australia could become an international education centre in our region and more widely,” ACOLA argued. The report is one of a series commissioned by Chief Scientist Alan Finkel, who, coincidentally is also deputy chair of ISA.