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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear ASA Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">See below and attached for STA’s priorities for the upcoming Federal election.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Stas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Professor Stas Shabala<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">(he/him/his)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">President, Astronomical Society of Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Discipline of Physics | School of Natural Sciences | College of Science and Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Tasmania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><outreach+Science.and.Technology.Australia@streem.com.au> on behalf of Science and Technology Australia <outreach+Science.and.Technology.Australia@streem.com.au><br>
<b>Reply to: </b>"media@sta.org.au" <media@sta.org.au><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 4 December 2024 at 8:05 am<br>
<b>To: </b>Stas Shabala <stanislav.shabala@utas.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>ELECTION 2025: PUT SCIENCE AT THE HEART OF AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:#FF9900">ELECTION 2025: PUT SCIENCE AT THE HEART OF AUSTRALIA’S FUTURE</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#E60000">WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2024</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Australia’s scientists and technologists are calling for candidates and parties at the next Federal Election to commit to an economy powered by Australian
ingenuity through a new Innovation Future Fund, a multi-billion dollar Strategic Moonshot Program, and a robust strategy to increase Australia’s research and development investment to 3% of GDP.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Science & Technology Australia has developed a comprehensive suite of policy measures that will secure the nation's economy into the future. In the lead
up to next year's Federal Election, we will invite all candidates and parties to commit to this ambitious and essential vision for building a prosperous Australia.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">The 2025 Election Priorities is the result of exhaustive consultation with STA’s member organisations, which together represent more than 235,000 scientists
and technologists.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">It suggests five key areas of focus – STEM R&D, elevating Indigenous Knowledge, STEM education, research capability and capacity, and the creation of products
and services - with more than 40 specific policies all collectively geared towards powerfully leveraging STEM research and development, workers, education and knowledge to create an Australia built from Australian ideas.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Among the innovative, affordable and achievable policy suggestions is a call for the creation of a new sovereign wealth fund to build the next generation
of R&D-led industries, and a 10-year Strategic Moonshot Program to invest deeply in areas critical to national prosperity. It also calls for setting a target and putting in place a strategy through the Strategic Review of R&D to boost Australia’s economy-wide
investment to 3% of GDP by 2035.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">“A prosperous Australia is one made from Australian ideas – and the country’s scientists and technologists have developed a plan to guide the nation’s new
policymakers to get there,” said STA CEO Ryan Winn.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">“With an economy languishing, a cost-of-living crisis, and a pathway to prosperity uncertain, the 2025 Federal Election is where we need our elected representatives
to make the crucial decisions to create the future Australia wants and needs – a technologically-advanced, healthy, and resilient nation, and one driven by innovation and smart thinking in which all Australians can flourish.”</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">“But seizing that future means taking bold action now. It means deploying the country’s best minds to generate ideas, innovations and new industries. And
it means a strong focus on equity – elevating Indigenous Knowledges and building true partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers and communities to solve our nations challenges.”</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">“Australia’s scientists, technologists and engineers are passionate about using their expertise and capabilities to create the future economy the country
wants and needs. We call on all parties and candidates standing in the Federal Election to do the same by committing to the measures in our 2025 Election Priorities.”</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">STA’s 2025 Election Priorities are attached and can be found
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online here</a>.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><em><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;color:black">About Science & Technology Australia</span></u></b></em><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;color:black">Science & Technology Australia is the nation’s peak body representing more than 235,000 scientists and technologists.
We’re the leading policy voice on science and technology. Our flagship programs include
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