One of the criticisms of the new Rudd Government has been about the amount of reviews and inquiries it has ordered since its election four months ago.

It is with best wishes, an open mind and only a modicum of anxiety that we welcome the new era that swept Australia last November 24, when our collective soul dared to tear itself gently but firmly from the grasp of the elderly gentleman in the Wallabies tracksuit and hitch itself to the Kevin07 bandwagon.

The Singapore and Australian biotechnology industries have synergies that should be exploited, the director of the Singapore Economic Development Board, Dr Swan-Gin Beh, has told a session at the BIO 2004 conference in San Francisco this week.

The President of the Australian Academy of Science, Dr Jim Peacock, has warned that governments could do “irreparable and lasting harm” by seeking to play safe when confronted by controversial technological change.