{"id":19983,"date":"2022-10-21T08:40:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/prime-minister-sees-leading-role-for-curtin-university\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T00:40:22","slug":"prime-minister-sees-leading-role-for-curtin-university","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/prime-minister-sees-leading-role-for-curtin-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister sees leading role for Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Â鶹ֱ²¥ today to announce the Federal Government\u2019s new initiatives to accelerate the growth of the critical mineral sector and support clean energy technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied on his visit by Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, the Hon. Madeleine King MP and the Member for Swan, Zaneta Mascarenhas MP, Mr Albanese met researchers from Curtin\u2019s Space Science and Technology Centre, the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy and the Resources Technology and Critical Minerals <a href=\"https:\/\/news.curtin.edu.au\/media-releases\/curtin-blazes-a-trail-for-resources-research-commercialisation\/\">Trailblazer<\/a> hub for an overview of innovative projects, new discoveries in space exploration and radio astronomy, and direct tangible impacts for industry and communities.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Albanese thanked the researchers and staff at Â鶹ֱ²¥ for sharing their knowledge, their innovation, and what he said were exciting opportunities for Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere in the west, there are advantages in the ground, in terms of minerals and access to them, advantages in the sky with the best solar resources in the world, however the greatest advantages are the people standing here with us today, the human resources that are here in the West,\u201d the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vision of this university is one that sees Western Australia in particular in a position to diversify its economy and take advantage of exciting opportunities in the areas of space exploration and the transformation of our global economy toward a clean energy economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe important role critical minerals will play in that transformation will see Australia become a renewable energy superpower for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Â鶹ֱ²¥ Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne said it was an honour to have Mr Albanese, Ms King and Ms Mascarenhas visit the campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an exciting opportunity for us to showcase some of the exceptional, world-leading research underway here at Curtin,\u201d Professor Hayne said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Prime Minister said, Â鶹ֱ²¥ has a leading role to play in helping Australia become a smarter and more innovative country, that leads the world not just in research but in making the most of the commercial opportunities that come from that research\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Â鶹ֱ²¥ today to announce new initiatives to accelerate the growth of the critical mineral sector and support clean energy technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":14402,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-19983","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community","category-research"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/D783850.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Lucien","last_name":"Wilkinson","display_name":"Lucien Wilkinson"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/19983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/19983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19983"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=19983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}