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How can government make things happen? Peter Beattie, former Premier of Queensland, explains how he helped to transform the state through government legislation and strategic funding. As Premier he noticed a need to broaden the base of the economy and wanted to stimulate scientific research and commercialisation within the region, he describes how he achieved this against strong scepticism to become a champion of biotechnology and innovation.

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Development of biotechnology within the region.

Fintan Walton:

Hello and welcome to PharmaVenture business review here in Melbourne, Australia. I am honor to have the honorable Peter Beattie who is the Former Premier of Queensland. Welcome to the show.

Peter Beattie :

Thank you for having me.

Fintan Walton:

Peter Beattie , you're famous not used to be being a Premier of Queensland but also your support for technology, new technology and particular amongst the biotechnology community as someone who supported biotechnology and helped to get biotechnology off the ground in Queensland and now is part of the Smart Stage initiatives that you took at the time. So what was behind that?

Peter Beattie :

Basically what I wanted to do is to broaden the base of the economy and Queensland in Australia is the only developed country in the world that has " that lives in a mega diverse area so in another words the great barrier reef , plane forests and so on. so we had that advantage but while we had good science, we hadn't commercialized it enough and also an opportunity to develop all sorts of if you like medical outcomes, agricultural, food you name it based on research and science and we set out with a long term strategy called Smart State to deliver and that wasn't easy let me tell you in the early days

Fintan Walton:

Right.

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Peter Beattie

Trade and Investment Commissioner

The Honorable Peter Beattie was the 36th Premier of the Australian state of Queensland for nine years and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state for eleven and a half years. His premiership lasted between 20 June 1998 and 13 September 2007 when he retired electorally undefeated. Mr. Peter Beattie 's key agenda has been to transform Queensland into Australia's Smart State by restructuring the education system, skilling the workforce and encouraging research and development and encouraging biotechnology, information technology and aviation industries to locate in Queensland. In 2003, the he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Queenslandin recognition of his leadership and commitment to higher education through Smart State initiatives and his support for research in the fields of biotechnology and nanotechnology". Currently Peter Beattie works and lives in Los Angeles as Queensland's Trade and Investment Commissioner.

Government of Queensland

The form of the Government of Queensland is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1859, although it has been amended many times since then. Since 1901 Queensland has been a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Australian Constitution regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Queensland is governed according to the principles of the Westminster system, a form of parliamentary government based on the model of the United Kingdom. Executive power is exercised by the Premier of Queensland and the Cabinet, who are appointed by the Governor, but who hold office by virtue of their ability to command the support of a majority of members of the Legislative Assembly. The Queensland Legislative Council was the upper house of the Queensland Parliament until it's abolition in 1922. Consequently, the Queensland Legislative Assembly is the only unicameral state parliament in Australia. Legislative power rests with the Parliament of Queensland, which consists of the Crown, represented by the Governor of Queensland, and the Queensland Legislative Assembly. The Legislative Assembly generally sits at Parliament House, Brisbane.