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Backing Australia's Ability - Building Our Future Through Science and Innovation

Backing Australia’s Ability – Building our Future through Science and Innovation is a new package totalling $5.3 billion over seven years from 2004-05.

This package, announced by the Prime Minister on 6 May 2004, builds on the initial 2001 Backing Australia’s Ability investment of $3 billion over five years to 2005-06.

Together these packages constitute a ten year, $8.3 billion funding commitment stretching from 2001-02 to 2010-11.

Backing Australia’s Ability represents a commitment to pursue excellence in research, science and technology, through three key themes:

More detail on the new package is set out in the:

Details on the initial five year package can be found at Backing Australia's Ability - An Innovation Action Plan for the Future 2001.

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