❓ The Minister for Defence Issues provides an update on the implementation of the Western Australian Defence and Defence Industries Strategic Plan, specifically the Defence Science Centre, highlighting its role in driving research and development through collaboration and grant schemes.
AnsweredQoN 432Legislative Assembly
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DEFENCE SCIENCE CENTRE
432. Mr Y. MUBARAKAI to the Minister for Defence Issues:
I refer to the McGowan Labor
government's commitment to creating more defence industry jobs in Western
Australia through the state's first ''Western Australian Defence
and Defence Industries Strategic Plan''.
(1) Can the
minister update the house on the implementation of this job-creating strategic
plan; in particular, the Defence Science Centre?
(2) Can the minister outline how
the centre will drive research and development in this state?
432. Mr Y. MUBARAKAI to the Minister for Defence Issues:
I refer to the McGowan Labor
government's commitment to creating more defence industry jobs in Western
Australia through the state's first ''Western Australian Defence
and Defence Industries Strategic Plan''.
(1) Can the
minister update the house on the implementation of this job-creating strategic
plan; in particular, the Defence Science Centre?
(2) Can the minister outline how
the centre will drive research and development in this state?
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(1)–(2) I
thank the member for Jandakot for his interest in driving up job numbers in Western
Australia, particularly in the defence sector. I am pleased to inform the
member that only this morning I was on St Georges Terrace meeting with my new
good friend, Minister Melissa Price, the federal Minister for Defence Industry.
I found her! No, that is not fair.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members!
Mr P. PAPALIA : I congratulated
her —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members! Today
we have to finish between 10 and five minutes to three, because we have an MPI
and we need time to do it. Members, stop interjecting; let the minister get on
with his answer.
Mr P. PAPALIA : It was
wonderful to congratulate her and the federal government on collaborating with
the state government in the interest of the defence industry in Western Australia
and our small to medium-sized enterprise s and research
institutions.
The
Defence Science Centre is now up and running. It is a collaboration. We are
putting in $500 000, the federal government is putting in $250 000, and the
universities are contributing. All of Western Australia's public
universities are part of team WA when it comes to defence. The Defence Science
Centre will be, in the words of the director of the Defence Science Centre, a matchmaker,
putting SMEs together with universities to work on problem-solving for our
Defence Force and those around the world, and looking for opportunities to
export capability.
At that get-together I congratulated
the former Minister for Defence Industry, and Minister for Defence, my good
friend Christopher Pyne. What an initiative of his that apart from getting lemon
for his own gin and tonic, he also drove the federal government towards
embracing the need for a southern defence industry capability and empowering
our defence industry to export its capability to the world. We fully embrace
that.
The
Defence Science Centre will do three things. It will do the matchmaking. It
will have a grant scheme, which will come into play in the second half of the
year, probably in August, to support research and development in the defence sector. It already has a collaboration with the Australian Mathematical
Sciences Institute to fund $10 000 grants, or subsidies, for 10 additional PhD
internships in the defence sector in Western Australia, pushing science,
pushing research and development, promoting the defence industry, and growing
jobs in Western Australia. It is great news for the state.
thank the member for Jandakot for his interest in driving up job numbers in Western
Australia, particularly in the defence sector. I am pleased to inform the
member that only this morning I was on St Georges Terrace meeting with my new
good friend, Minister Melissa Price, the federal Minister for Defence Industry.
I found her! No, that is not fair.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members!
Mr P. PAPALIA : I congratulated
her —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members! Today
we have to finish between 10 and five minutes to three, because we have an MPI
and we need time to do it. Members, stop interjecting; let the minister get on
with his answer.
Mr P. PAPALIA : It was
wonderful to congratulate her and the federal government on collaborating with
the state government in the interest of the defence industry in Western Australia
and our small to medium-sized enterprise s and research
institutions.
The
Defence Science Centre is now up and running. It is a collaboration. We are
putting in $500 000, the federal government is putting in $250 000, and the
universities are contributing. All of Western Australia's public
universities are part of team WA when it comes to defence. The Defence Science
Centre will be, in the words of the director of the Defence Science Centre, a matchmaker,
putting SMEs together with universities to work on problem-solving for our
Defence Force and those around the world, and looking for opportunities to
export capability.
At that get-together I congratulated
the former Minister for Defence Industry, and Minister for Defence, my good
friend Christopher Pyne. What an initiative of his that apart from getting lemon
for his own gin and tonic, he also drove the federal government towards
embracing the need for a southern defence industry capability and empowering
our defence industry to export its capability to the world. We fully embrace
that.
The
Defence Science Centre will do three things. It will do the matchmaking. It
will have a grant scheme, which will come into play in the second half of the
year, probably in August, to support research and development in the defence sector. It already has a collaboration with the Australian Mathematical
Sciences Institute to fund $10 000 grants, or subsidies, for 10 additional PhD
internships in the defence sector in Western Australia, pushing science,
pushing research and development, promoting the defence industry, and growing
jobs in Western Australia. It is great news for the state.
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