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All must have prizes. (Argus).(satirical call for Australia's own Nobel Prizes)
In a visionary leap into the future, ALP Knowledge Nation strategists have proposed that the standards of Australian research and development should be instantly raised to the highest in the world by the award of Australia's own Nobel Prizes.
"Senior medical, IT and other scientific researchers should be awarded an immediate Nobel Prize for their outstanding contribution to the national good in letting themselves be used as a plank in Labor's election campaign," says Knowledge Nation spokeswoman Cheryl Knowall. "This would have the effect not only of immeasurably lifting the international profile of Australia's cutting-edge R&D by giving our research institutes a much greater ratio of Nobel Prizewinners in the lab than the supposedly top research centres overseas, but of attracting home expatriate researchers who haven't yet won a Nobel Prize and would like one."
The establishment of Australian Nobel Prizes would be one of three "absolute priorities" for an incoming Labor government, along with apologising to the stolen generations and declaring a republic, says Knowall. But why the name "Nobel" instead of an indigenous name? Why not the Charles Perkins Prize, or as for Knowledge Nation supremo Barry Jones himself has suggested, the Pick-a-Box Prize, after his own epoch-making contribution to pushing back the frontiers of knowledge in the 1960s?
"Naturally these names would have symbolic value," says ...
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- Magazine article from: Science News Seppa, N. October 13, 2001 700+ words
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