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Nature 399, 94 (13 May 1999) | doi:10.1038/20036

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Australia boosts medical research, but keeps other budgets level

Peter Pockley

For the first time in his four budgets, the Treasurer of Australia's centre-right Coalition government, Peter Costello, has highlighted the importance of science and research in his speech to Parliament, delivered in Canberra on Tuesday (11 May).As foreshadowed by Prime Minister John Howard last week, medical research was given star billing in the budget, and is scheduled for a boost of A$614 million (US$404 million) over six years.