Qantas has posted a $1 billion half-year profit as travel-hungry consumers, steeper airfares and sustained capacity constraints boosted its margins. That story and more in today's live blog.
Turning to now Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, who is speaking about the Voice to parliament onThe former Greens First Nations spokeswoman said she hadn’t made her decision about whether to support the referendum.
However, she would not go into detail about her conversation with Megan Davis, a law professor who is the leading Voice to parliament campaigner. Sometimes it’s because the investors are just not across the finer points of the details, they don’t appreciate the technology, or don’t think they’ve got a capacity to invest. We don’t want that to happen. We don’t want firms to go offshore to chase what they’re doing. So a lot of quantum firms here that are ready to grow, need that capital. The NRF will help provide that layer of capital, and the Coalition is saying they’ll vote against that.
“I’m very grateful for their engagement. We’ve engaged with the crossbenchers, and I’ve sought to make myself as available as I possibly can to work through issues. Some stuff we agree on, some stuff we don’t,” he said. The last time the national science and research priorities were updated was back in 2015, Husic told ABC’s“I want them to guide us in the way in which we shape research priorities into the future,” he said this.
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