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Media release from The Hon Ed Husic MP, Minister for Industry and Science

4 August 2022

The Australian Government is celebrating the work of our scientists this National Science Week, working to close the gender gap and inspire the next generation to be part of the highly skilled STEM sector. 

Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic made the comments at Parliament House as he marked this year’s National Science Week, which will run from 13-21 August.

“Australia is home to some of the best and brightest scientists and researchers – and it’s an incredible talent pool that we want to grow,” Minister Husic said.

“The Government is determined to address the gender gap in our science and research sectors, to ensure that girls and women can see a place in that STEM talent pool and then to take a deep breath and dive in.” 

Dozens of Science Week stories around Tasmania

• Join a NASA astrobiologist and 150 roving scientists for a drink – Hobart
• Beer quenches scientists’ thirst for knowledge (online and live in Tassie)
• Plant-powered cars, Jurassic poop, the science of piracy, and more at Festival of Bright Ideas 2022 – Hobart
• Bugs, bats, brains, and space junk: young scientists tour Tasmania
• Wattle vs woollybutt: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Queensland

• 1500+ rockets to be simultaneously launched around Australia
• Making waves: a century of Australian coral reef science – South Brisbane
• Explaining cancer biology to young people through pop culture, art and augmented reality – online
• Feeding caterpillars to get butterflies – Kuranda
• The cultural connection of Indigenous astronomy with Uncle Wayne Fossey – Logan
• A bottled history of cures and quackery – South Brisbane
• Wattle vs woollybutt: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Victoria

• Starlings flock, humans crowd, drones… zizz?  Explore the swarm in this exhibition-cum-experiment  – Parkville
• Saturn up close – Ballarat
• Hydrogen energy 101 – Hawthorn
• Moving images: virtual reality helps us accept death – Carlton
• A band of physicists go on a road trip to explain quantum and dark matter – Bendigo and Stawell
• Misinformation puts the Q into 5G – Parkville
• Who wants to be an epidemiologist? – Torquay
• Caring for the rare: meet the people saving Victoria’s species – online via Parliament House
• Wattle vs woollybutt: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Dozens of Science Week stories around the Territory

• An AI ‘Time Machine’ and a health lab on wheels – Darwin and Northeast Arnhem Land
• Students survey the Territory’s soil, from Darwin’s dirt to sands in Central Australia – multiple locations across NT
• Will we have enough prawns for Christmas? – Darwin
• Wattle vs woollybutt: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Dozens of Science Week stories around New South Wales

• Dr Karl, dinosaurs, furry friends, and a T-Rex autopsy show: all on the Sydney Science Trail – Mt Annan and Sydney
• Fighting superbugs, big bad tech, caring for sky country, and microfactories making new materials from old – Sydney Science Festival is back
• Saving the planet by gardening underwater – Lake Macquarie and Sydney
• Unstable internet connection: why we’re addicted to dopamine – online
• The future of the Antarctic envisaged by artists and scientists – Wollongong
• The Indigenous night sky, bush food, and technology – Redfern
• Step inside the Poo Palace – Newcastle
• Wattle vs woollybutt: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Dozens of Science Week stories around ACT

• Footy Quake: can a rugby crowd register on the Richter scale? – GIO Stadium
• Science in the shopping centres
• Flying drones, engineering defence, art-robots, and biology balloons: meet the women of science and art – Canberra
• What do experts make of the ‘science’ in Mars Attacks!? – Acton
• Why mushrooms rule the world – Belconnen
• Could swing dancing help teach Newtonian physics? – Ainslie
• Wattle vs woollybutt: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.