Go8 welcomes integrated portfolio

12 December 2011

The Group of Eight (Go8) welcomes the formation of a single Department for Industry, Science, Research and Tertiary Education under two Cabinet Ministers.

Go8 executive director, Michael Gallagher, said “we had feared that university research would be put back into the Education and Employment portfolio where it would have struggled to gain the attention it deserves.”

“We are pleased that innovation will now be viewed more comprehensively, embracing the development of graduates as well as research.

“We are pleased to see responsibility for research training re-integrated with higher education.

“The Go8 looks forward to working constructively with Ministers Evans and Combet.”

FOR INFORMATION:   Kerrie Thornton, Director, Communications and International, Group of Eight.   Ph: 02 6239 5488