Labor Plans for Innovation to Create Future Jobs

Labor Plans for Innovation to Create Future Jobs
Deputy Opposition Leader Richard Marles in the House of Representatives at Parliament House on September 18, 2019, in Canberra, Australia. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images
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The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is putting the commercialisation of science and research at the centre of the political party’s future job-making policy, which it intends to take to the next election.

Announcing the policy platform in an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles said Australia’s manufacturing sector’s viability relies on an Australian government creating a supportive environment for skill creation, research and innovation.