PRINCIPLES. EVIDENCE. PROGRESS.
- Double research funding to $18.4bn
- Create an Australian space agency
- Legalise driverless car testing
- Increase health research to end aging
- Implement Gonski reforms
- Computer programming in schools
- Support disadvantaged schools
- Publicly funded extension school
- Close offshore detention centres
- Marriage equality
- Decriminalise drug use
- Treaty with Indigenous Australia
- Transparent, open government
- Whistleblower protection
- End metadata retention
- Secularism
- Remove 50% capital gains tax discount
- Replace stamp duty with land tax
- Remove superannuation tax loopholes
- Affordable childcare for all
- Renewable energy
- Carbon emissions trading scheme
- Promote density to improve house prices
- Bullet train: BNE-SYD-MEL
Science Party Vision
The Science Party believes that our quality of life is improved primarily through technological developments, sourced through a scientific approach to knowledge in the context of democracy and peace. Technological development is something that we can all be excited about and should try to accelerate. We, as a society and as individuals, should plan for the future in order to maximise the benefit we derive from our technological development. We see innovation, education and economic reforms as key to the success of Australia.
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Recent Updates
No, conservationists are not responsible for the ferocity of this bushfire season
Dr Andrea Leong is the Leader of the Science Party.
Despite what you might have heard, "greenies" and their supposed opposition to hazard reduction burns are unlikely to be responsible for the intensity of the current bushfires.
Let's look at New South Wales as an example.
Read moreNostalgia
Without forgetting that some structural inequities have a long history and continue to this day, our 2019 senate candidate Greg Parker recounts some of the Australian institutions that are being whittled away. Now retired, Greg's professional experience includes working in Indigenous Housing and in the Job Network.
Photo: Greg Parker
Image: supplied
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Read moreSubmission on the adequacy of Newstart and related payments
Download this submission:
Submission to the Inquiry into the Adequacy of Newstart and related payments and alternative mechanisms to determine the level of income support payments in Australia (PDF, 200 KB, 13 September 2019)
See all the submissions on the inquiry website.
Finalised rules on high power rockets and launch permits
The Australian Space Agency has finalised three sets of rules in support of the refreshed Space (Launches and Returns) Act 2018:
- the Space (Launches and Returns)(General) Rules 2019, effective immediately;
- the Space (Launches and Returns)(High Power Rockets) Rules 2019, effective 30 June 2020; and
- the Space (Launches and Returns)(Insurance) Rules 2019, effective immediately.
The finalised Rules, together with refreshes of the Flight Safety Code and the Maximum Probable Loss Methodology, and the Act, have modernised access to and participation in space commerce for local sector participants.
Read moreSubmissions on Citizenship Loss
Download these submissions:
1. Submission to the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Strengthening the Citizenship Loss Provisions) Bill 2018 (PDF, 134 KB, 13 January 2019)
2. Submission to the Review of the Australian Citizenship renunciation by conduct and cessation provisions (PDF, 141 KB, 9 July 2019)