Senator Kim Carr

A Shorten Labor Government will protect Australian jobs by making it easier for local manufacturing firms to take effective action against the dumping of below cost foreign goods into Australia.
 
Dumping is cheating and is a particular problem for Australia’s steel industry.
 
The announcement by the United States of a 25 per cent tariff on imported steel from a number of other countries increases the threat of more steel being dumped in Australia, putting further pressure on an industry already feeling the impact of a glut of foreign steel production.

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TV INTERVIEW

ABC NATIONAL WRAP

SUNDAY 8 JULY 2018

SUBJECTS: Political Retirements, The Senate, By-Elections.

GREG JENNETT: With the retirements that we know about already the ranks of Labor MPs with actual experience in Government are clearly shrinking, Kim Carr will soon be the longest serving member of the Senate and he has seen a lot of turnover in the upper house in recent years and he reckons too much for the Senate’s own good.

Kim Carr welcome to National Wrap. A bits happened this week in your own party in particular.  We have seen Jenny Macklin announce her intention to leave at the next election, Michael Danby too. This is significant turn over and a reminder perhaps for political mortality for all of you.

Labor welcomes the announcement of BAE as the successful tender for the Future Frigates program.  This announcement is a significant milestone in this project, which was initiated by the former Labor Government in 2009.

 
BAE is a world-class partner for Australia to build the next generation of frigates. They have a proud history of delivering capabilities that have helped keep Australia safe, and Labor is sure they will do so with the frigates as well.

Australia needs a National Shipbuilding Plan for civil as well as defence vessels, with a sovereign Australian industry, built by Australian workers according to the final report of the Senate Economics References Committee inquiry into Australia’s naval shipbuilding industry, tabled today.
 
At a minimum, all vessels procured by the Commonwealth, scientific and research vessels, Federal Police, customs and border protection vessels, and agriculture vessels should comply with the same requirements as naval procurements, devised in the national interest.  

There has been much excitement in these pages over the past few weeks as the self-appointed defenders of all that is good rage against the temerity of universities in insisting on their intellectual sovereignty by applying long-held standards of rigour and objectivity.

These heroic culture warriors insist that universities are wrong to maintain their independence from a donor’s preferences on content, direction and staffing of a funded program.

SPEECH TO THE ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR ROBOTIC VISION LAUNCH: A ROBOTICS ROADMAP FOR AUSTRALIA.
 
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA
 
MONDAY, 18 JUNE 2018
 
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Senate Estimates has today revealed that the Turnbull Liberals are preparing to spend $450,000 on a pre by-election advertising campaign to sell the largely unknown Industry Growth Centres initiative.

Officials confirmed the money will be spent by the Department of Industry in the next two months - right before the super Saturday by-elections take place on 28 July.  

Today’s announcement of the “National Research Infrastructure Investment Plan” is yet another pre-election stunt by an increasingly desperate government.

It is a promise by a government that is specialising in new frontiers of creative accounting.

Labor welcomes today’s announcement of Dr Megan Clark AC as the inaugural head of the Australian Space Agency.

Dr Clark was a passionate and effective Chief Executive Officer of the CSIRO between 2009 and 2014.

In that role Dr Clark stood firm as a defender of CSIRO and continued to inspire staff at a time when science too often came under attack from people who should have known better. 

Malcolm Turnbull’s 2018-19 Budget is a mirage when it comes to investment in science, research and innovation.

Despite lofty claims of billions of dollars, the actual amount of additional spending on science and research initiatives is only $33.9 million in 2018-19.