The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, will ask the Prime Minister the following in Question Time today. Please check against delivery.
“Prime Minister, the University of Tasmania’s proposed STEM facility would transform Hobart and Tasmania. It’s a $400 million project that ultimately would accommodate 5,200 staff, researchers and students.
“Indeed the UTas project is nationally significant, and an Infrastructure Australia priority, because the percentage of Australian graduates with a STEM background is only 18 per cent, compared with Singapore and China which are 35 and 47 per cent respectively.
“Prime Minister, further to our meeting earlier in the week, are you able to provide any sort of assurance of Federal Government support for the project should the University’s business case stack up?”
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Andrew Wilkie, Independent MP for Denison
