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In this episode of PharmaTelevision News Review, Paul Larsmon talks with The Hon Peter Beattie, former Premier of Queensland, The Hon Peter Beattie, who is Queensland Trade Commissioner for North and South America.

Filmed at AusBiotech 2009, they discuss:

• alliances and collaborations
• development over the last 10 years into “something special”
• objectives for the next 12 months

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Alliances and collaborations

Fintan Walton:

Hello and welcome to PharmaTelevision News Review here in Melbourne, Australia. On this show I have the honorable Peter Beattie former Premier of Queensland and now Trade Commissioner for Queensland in North America and Sound America, welcome.

Peter Beattie:

Thank you for having me.

Fintan Walton:

Actually your role is for all of America's"

Peter Beattie:

Yes.

Fintan Walton:

And Peter Beattie you, you are an a very experience man having been a Premier of an important state here in Australia, but one of the things you did was to start this Smart State Initiative which has transformed the innovation status of Queensland enormously but now you're out there in, in the America's and particularly focused on North America. In 2009 and a year that has been one of the probably one of the worst economic downturns that we've seen this side of the second world war, how can you as a Trade Commissioner going out there to, to the United States convince them that they should also look at their own home territory but to come to somewhere like Queensland and invest?

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Peter Beattie

Trade 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 Queensland"in 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. Government of 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.