2016-02-17
Greens Senator for Tasmania, and spokesperson for Antarctic issues, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, supports the comments by the University of Tasmania Vice Chancellor Peter Rathjen that Tasmania’s hard-won world-leading competitive advantage in climate and Antarctic science should not be given up lightly.
Senator Whish-Wilson said, “Peter Rathjen is right. Tasmania has worked hard to develop a global reputation in climate and Antarctic science and once you have earned this reputation you don’t just throw it away.
AUDIO of Peter Rathjen interview here https://soundcloud.com/timbeshara/statewide-mornings-with-leon-compton-20160217-1
“Peter Rathjen is also right to say that diminishing CSIRO’s role in Tasmania could diminish the capability and reputation of the sector as a whole.
“It is blindingly obvious that the CSIRO management has failed to consider the impact of these cuts on Tasmania’s competitive advantages and that these cuts will have reputational and economic ramifications.
“It is not too late for the Liberal Government to completely reverse this decision before the damage becomes real,” he concluded.