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11 to 20 June 2015

The Honourable

Annastacia Palaszczuk MP

Premier of Queensland and

Minister for the Arts

Report to Parliament - Trade Mission to the United States – 11 to 20 June 2015 The Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk MP – Premier of Queensland and Minister for the Arts of 48

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OFFICIAL DELEGATION MEMBERS………………………………………………………………….4

PROGRAM………………………………………………………………………………………………..5

HONOURABLE KIM BEAZLEY, AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE USA...……………….15

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION………………………………………………………………………...16

THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION…………………………………………………………………….17

UNITED STATES NAVY, PENTAGON……………………………………………………………….18

DR MITKO DIMITROV………………………………………………………………………………….19

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY…………………………………………………………………..20

PENNSYLVANIA BALLET……………………………………………………………………………..21

BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANISATION………………………………………………….22

QUT INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS………………………………………………………..23

JOHNSON & JOHNSON……………………………………………………………………………….24

PATHEO BIOLOGICS………………………………………………………………………………….25

QUEENSLAND VIP WELCOME RECEPTION………………………………………………………26

LIFE SCIENCES QUEENSLAND……………………………………………………………………..27

MR GLEN GIOVANNETTI GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES LEADER ERNST & YOUNG…………...28

EMORY UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND……………………………..29

PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS………………………………………………………30 HONOURABLE NICK MINCHIN, AUSTRALIAN CONSUL-GENERAL (NEW YORK)………….31

VISIT TO THE AUSTRALIAN PAVILION BIO 2015..……………………………………………….32

PROFESSOR JOSH LERNER – HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, BOSTON…………………33

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY AT THE

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY………………...........................................34


ATHINOULA A MARTINOS CENTRE FOR BIOMEDICAL IMAGING - HARVARD MEDICAL

SCHOOL IN CONJUNCTION WITH MIT AND SIEMENS HEALTHCARE……………………….35

HEALTHCARE VENTURES…………………………………………………………………………...36

DISTRICT HALL, BOSTON ...…………………………………………………………………………37

NIGEL WARREN, AUSTRALIAN CONSUL GENERAL, SAN FRANCISCO……………………..38

SALESFORCE…………………………………………………………………………………………..39

ACCEL PARTNERS…………………………………………………………………………………….40

FACEBOOK……………………………………………………………………………………………...41

GENERAL ELECTRIC………………………………………………………………………………….42

INNOVATION INVESTOR DINNER…………………………………………………………………..43

TESLA……………………………………………………………………………………………………44

LEGENDARY PICTURES……………………………………………………………………………...45

MARVEL PICTURES…………………………………………………………………………………...46

WALT DISNEY STUDIOS.……………………………………………………………………………..47

NBC UNIVERSAL……………………………………………………………………………………….48


Official Delegation Members

The Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk MP

Premier of Queensland and Minister for the Arts

Mr Peter Nibbs Director of Policy Office of the Premier

Mr Brendan Connell Senior Media Advisor Office of the Premier

Mr Jamie Merrick Deputy Director-General Strategic Policy and Inter-Governmental Relations Department of the Premier and Cabinet

Mr Andrew Tulloch Chief Executive Officer Trade and Investment Queensland

Mr David Camerlengo Trade and Investment Commissioner - North America Trade and Investment Queensland

Mr David Russo

Manager, Protocol Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet

Dr Christine Williams

Assistant Director-General Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation Washington, Philadelphia and Boston only

Ms Tracey Vieira Chief Executive Officer, Screen Queensland Los Angeles only

Senior Constable Kellie Brooks Queensland Police Service


PROGRAM

Time in bold indicates local time Time in normal font indicates Brisbane time

Time differences:

Washington DC 14 hours behind Brisbane Philadelphia 14 hours behind Brisbane Boston 14 hours behind Brisbane San Francisco 17 hours behind Brisbane Los Angeles 17 hours behind Brisbane

Thursday 11 June 2015 – Brisbane/Los Angeles/Washington DC

8:00am Check in at Brisbane International Airport

10:25am Depart Brisbane for Los Angeles Qantas Flight QF0015

6:25am Thurs 11:25pm

Arrive Los Angeles (LAX)

9:40am 2:40am Fri

Depart Los Angeles for Washington DC American Airlines Flight AA1232

5:40pm 7:40am Fri

Arrive IAD Washington DC – Dulles

6:10pm 8:10am Fri

Travel to hotel

7:10pm 9:10am Fri

Check in at The Willard Intercontinental Washington 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 20004

Liaison time and dinner


Friday 12 June 2015 – Washington DC

am 7:45am – 8:45am 9:45pm – 10:45pm

Breakfast briefing hosted by the Australian Ambassador to USA, the Hon Kim Beazley, AC Venue: Washington DC

8:45am 10:45pm

Travel to next meeting

9:30am – 10:40am 11:30pm – 12:40am Sat

Meeting with Smithsonian Institution and signing of a new three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Queensland and Smithsonian Institution Venue: Washington DC

10:40am 12:40am Sat


11:00am – 12:30pm 1:00am – 2:30am Sat

Meeting with the Brookings Institution Venue: Washington DC

12:30pm 2:30am Sat


1:00pm – 4:00pm 3:00am – 6:00am Sat

Meeting with US Navy, Pentagon – Meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy) and tour of the Pentagon Venue: Washington DC

4:00pm 6:00am Sat

Return to hotel

pm Liaison time and dinner

overnight The Willard Intercontinental Washington


Saturday 13 June 2015 – Washington DC/ Philadelphia

am 8:15am – 8:45am 10:15pm – 10:45pm

Meeting with Dr Dimiter (Mitko) Dimitrov, PhD Centre for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute Venue: Washington DC

8:45am 10:45pm


9:00am – 11:00am 11:00pm – 1:00am Sun

Meeting with Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and tour Venue: Washington DC

11:00am – 11:15am 1:00am – 1:15am Sun

Return to hotel

12:30pm 2:30am Sun

Check out of hotel

1:00pm 3:00am Sun

Depart for Washington Union Station

1:20pm 3:20am Sun

Arrive Washington Union Station

2:00pm 4:00am Sun

Depart Washington DC for Philadelphia Acela Express No 2216

3:36pm 5:36am Sun

Arrive Philadelphia 30th Street Station

3:45pm 5:45am Sun

Transfer to Hotel

4:00pm 6:00am Sun 5.30pm 7.30am Sun

Check in at the Westin Philadelphia 99 South 17th Street at Liberty Place, Philadelphia, PA, 19103

Dinner with business delegates

6:30pm 8:30am Sun

Travel to Merriam Theatre

7:00pm 9:00am Sun

Attend the performance of works by choreographers Keigwin, Fonte & Forsythe by the Pennsylvania Ballet Venue: Philadelphia

10:00pm 12:00noon Sun

Return to hotel


Saturday 13 June 2015 – Washington DC/ Philadelphia

Sunday 14 June 2015 – Philadelphia

am Liaison time

am Venue: Westin, Philadelphia

11:00am – 11:30am 1:00am – 1:30am Mon

Meeting with President and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation Venue: Westin, Philadelphia

11:30am – 12:00noon 1:30am – 2:00am Mon

Meeting with UNICEF Partnerships and Special Initiatives and QUT Venue: Philadelphia

12:00noon – 2:00pm 2:00am – 4:00am Mon

QUT International Collaborations Luncheon Venue: Westin, Philadelphia

3:10pm 5:10am Mon


3:30pm – 4:15pm 5:30am – 6:15am Mon

Meeting with Johnson and Johnson (J&J) Venue: Union League of Philadelphia

4:30pm – 5:15pm 6:30am – 7:15am Mon

Meeting with Patheon Venue: Union League of Philadelphia

5:30pm for 6:00pm start 7:30am Mon

Queensland VIP Reception – BIO2015 Venue: Philadelphia

9.00 pm 11.30am Mon

Return to Hotel

Liaison time

overnight The Westin Philadelphia


Monday 15 June 2015 – Philadelphia/Boston

am 6:30am 8:30pm

Depart hotel

7:00am – 8:45am 9:00pm – 10:45pm

Life Sciences Queensland (LSQ) Breakfast Queensland-Australia’s Home for Therapeutic Product Development Venue: Union League of Philadelphia

9:00am – 9:30am 11:00pm – 11:30pm

Meeting with the Glen Giovannetti, Global Life Sciences Sector Leader for Ernst & Young Venue: Union League of Philadelphia

9:45am – 10:30am 11:45pm – 12:30am Tues

Meeting with Emory University, Atlanta and University of Queensland Venue: Union League of Philadelphia

Remain at venue

10:30am – 11:15am 12:30am – 1:15am Tues

Meeting with Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development (Office of Technology & Innovation) and Ben Franklin Technology Partners Venue: Union League of Philadelphia

11:15am 1:15am Tues

Return to hotel

11:30am 1:30am Tues

Check out of hotel

12:00noon 2:00am Tues

Travel to lunch

12:15pm – 1:30pm 2:15am – 3:30am Tues

Lunch with the Hon Nick Minchin, Australian Consul-General, New York

Venue: Philadelphia

1:30pm 3:30am Tues


2:00pm – 3:00pm 4:00am – 5:00am Tues

Visit Life Sciences Queensland/Australian Pavilion and Photo Opportunity


Monday 15 June 2015 – Philadelphia/Boston

Venue: Philadelphia

3:00pm 5:00am Tues

Transfer to airport Travel time: 20mins

3.30pm 5:30am Tues

Arrive airport

5:15pm 7:15am Tues

Depart Philadelphia for Boston US Airways Flight US0715

6:36pm 8:36am Tues

Arrive Boston

7:00pm 9:00am Tues

Travel to hotel

7:20pm 9:20am Tues

Check in at the Intercontinental Hotel, 510 Atlantic Avenue, Boston MA 02210

Liaison time and dinner

Tuesday 16 June 2015 – Boston/San Francisco

Check out of hotel

7:45am 9:45pm


8:30am – 10:00am 10:30pm – 12:00am Wed

Breakfast meeting with Professor Josh Lerner, Head of Investment Banking, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Harvard Business School Venue: Harvard Business School, Boston

10:00am 12:00am Wed


10:30am – 12:00noon 12:30am – 2:00am Wed

Site visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and meeting with CSAIL Venue: Cambridge

12:00noon 2:00am Wed



Tuesday 16 June 2015 – Boston/San Francisco

12:30pm – 2:00pm 2:30am – 4:00am Wed

Visit to the Athinoula A Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in conjunction with Siemens Healthcare Venue: Charlestown

2:00pm 4:00am Wed


2:15pm – 2:45pm 4:15am – 4:45am Wed

Meeting with Healthcare Ventures Venue: District Hall, Boston

2:45pm - 3:15pm 4:45am – 5:15am Wed

Tour of the District Hall, Boston Innovation District Venue: Boston

3:15pm 5:15am Wed

Depart for Airport

3:45pm 5:45am Wed

Arrive Boston Airport – Terminal B

5:04pm 7:04am Wed

Depart Boston for San Francisco United Airlines Flight UA0736 Travel time: 6hrs 36min

8:40pm 1:40pm Wed

Arrive San Francisco

9:00pm 2:00pm Wed

Transit to hotel

9:30pm 2:30pm Wed

Check in at The Westin St Francis San Francisco 335 Powell St, Union Square, San Francisco 94102


Wednesday 17 June 2015 – San Francisco

8.30am 1.30am Thurs 9:30am 2:30am Thurs

Delegation meeting with Nigel Warren, Consul-General and Senior Trade Commissioner, Australian Consul General Travel to next meeting

10:00am – 11:00am 3:00am – 4:00am Thurs

Meeting with Salesforce Venue: San Francisco

11:00am 4:00am Thurs


12:00noon – 1:00pm 5:00am – 6:00am Thurs

Meeting with Accel Partners Venue: Palo Alto

1:00pm 6:00am Thurs


1:30pm – 2:30pm 6:30am – 7:30am Thurs

Meeting with Facebook and tour of Facebook Campus Venue: Menlo Park

2:30pm 7:30am Thurs


3:30pm – 5:00pm 8:30am – 10:00am Thurs

Meeting and tour with GE Software Centre of Excellence Venue: San Ramon

5:00pm – 6:00pm 10:00am – 11:00am Thurs

Return to hotel, liaison time

6:30pm 11:30am Thurs

Travel to dinner

6:45pm – 9:30pm 11:45am – 1:30pm Thurs

Innovation Investor Dinner Venue: San Francisco


Thursday 18 June 2015 – San Francisco/Los Angeles/Brisbane

7:15am 12:15am Fri

Check out of Westin St Francis Hotel

7:30am 12:30am Fri

Travel to meeting

9:00am – 10:30am 2:00am – 3:30am Fri

Meeting with Tesla Venue: Fremont

10:30am 3:30am Fri

Travel to San José Airport

11:00am 4:00am Fri

Arrive Mineta San José International Airport

12:45pm 5:45am Fri

Depart San José for Burbank Southwest Flight 3675

1:45pm 6:45am Fri

Arrive Burbank

2:00pm 7:00am Fri

Travel to meeting

3:00pm – 4:00pm 8:00am – 9:00am Fri

Meeting with Legendary Pictures Venue: Burbank

4:00pm 9:00am Fri

Travel to Walt Disney Studios

4:15pm – 5:15pm 9:15am – 10:15am Fri

Meeting with Marvel Productions Venue: Burbank

5:15pm – 5:45pm 10:15am – 10:45am Fri

Meeting with Team Disney – Features Venue: Burbank

5:45pm 10:45am Fri

Travel to meeting

6:00pm 11:00am Fri

Meeting with NBC Universal including tour of Universal Studios Venue: Universal City

6:45pm 11:45am Fri

Dinner with NBC Universal Venue: Toluca Lake

8:00pm 1:00pm Fri

Travel to Los Angeles International Airport


Thursday 18 June 2015 – San Francisco/Los Angeles/Brisbane

9:00pm 2:00pm Fri

Arrive Los Angeles International Airport – Tom Bradley International Terminal

11:45pm 4:45pm Fri

Depart Los Angeles for Brisbane Qantas Airways Flight QF0016 Travel time: 13hrs 55mins

Friday 19 June 2015 – Los Angeles/Brisbane

am/pm In transit

Saturday 20 June 2015 – Brisbane

6:40am Arrive Brisbane International Airport


Breakfast meeting with the Australian Ambassador to the USA

Date:

Venue:

Friday 12 June 2015

Ambassador’s Residence, Washington DC

Attendees

The Hon Kim Beazley AC Australian Ambassador to the USA

Ms Cheryl Stanilewicz Senior Trade Commissioner

Meeting Summary

• The Honourable Kim Beazley AC, the Australian Ambassador to the USA, provided an overview of the economy and market opportunities in the United States.

• The Ambassador in particular noted:

• There are around 10,000 Australian companies operating in the USA.

• That the USA remains the largest source of Foreign Direct Investment into Australia at 24% and this continues to grow.

• That Australia was the eighth largest research partner with the US which indicated the regard held for the research capability of Australian research institutions.

• The opportunity for Queensland companies to exploit the manufacturing and logistics efficiency and scale of USA supply chains.

• The Ambassador reinforced Queensland’s positon as a potential gateway to Asia for USA companies, and our strengths in terms of skilled labor and intellectual property protection

• He also provided further insights into other objectives of the trade mission, particularly in relation to biotechnology, innovation and information technology.


Meeting with Smithsonian Institution

Date:

Venue:

Friday 12 June 2015

Smithsonian Institution – National Museum of Natural History

Attendees

Dr Scott Miller

Deputy Under Secretary for Collections and Interdisciplinary Support, Smithsonian Institution

Mr Eric Woodard

Director, Office of Fellowships and Internships, Smithsonian Institution

Meeting Summary

• The objective of the meeting was to sign and announce the renewal for a further three years of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the State of Queensland and the Smithsonian Institution.

• The MOU between the Smithsonian Institution and Queensland is a unique partnership with a state government.

• Queensland Government agencies that collaborate with the Smithsonian Institution under the MOU include the Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation, the State Library of Queensland and the Department of Education and Training.

• The 2015 Queensland-Smithsonian and Cooper Hewitt Fellows were announced and the Premier met with the three completing 2014 Queensland–Smithsonian Fellows.

• The completing 2014 Fellows are Dr Aaron Davis (James Cook University), Dr Kathryn Mackey (Queensland Academy for Science, Mathematics and Technology), and Dr Mark Schutze (QUT).

• Dr Davis is looking at the environmental impact of urea-based nitrogenous fertilisers on the Great Barrier Reef. Urea-based nitrogenous are used extensively in Queensland’s sugarcane and banana industries. Dr Davis has worked with scientists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre on Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

• Dr Mackey will be working at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC for a 12 week period. Dr Mackey will be working with the Learning and Outreach teams from the Smithsonian to gain and understanding of new strategies to extend STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) to include the Arts.

• Dr Schutze will work with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington to learn about New World fruit flies. This will strengthen Queensland's capacity in pest fruit fly taxonomy and diagnostics.

• The Premier undertook a guided tour of the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History.


Meeting with The Brookings Institution

Date: Friday 12 June 2015

Venue: Washington

Attendees

Dr Dany Bahar Nonresident Fellow, Global Economy and Development, the Brookings Institution

Dr Jose Miguel Benavente Division Chief, Competitiveness and Innovation Division, Inter-American Development Bank

Mr Alan Berube Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, the Brookings Institution

Dr David Dollar Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development, the Brookings Institution

Mr Marek Gootman Director of Strategic Partnerships and Global Initiatives, the Brookings Institution

Mr Miguel Santos Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Development, Harvard University

Dr Ernesto Stein Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Colonel John Angevine, US Army (Retired)

Executive Fellow for Veterans Affairs, Brookings Executive Education

Dr Mark Wrighton Chancellor, Washington University in St Louis (WUSLT)

Meeting Summary:

• This meeting provided the opportunity to develop relationships with key researchers and policy experts at the Brookings Institution.

• Key points for discussion included:

• The performance of the Queensland innovation system, including findings of the Lerner Review.

• Effective policies to foster innovation and productivity growth. • Mechanisms to support commercialisation and build scale of the venture capital

market in Queensland. • Policies to support improved university-industry collaboration and better targeted skills

provision to meet the emerging needs of the economy. • Opportunities to increase the scale and range of Queensland’s exports.

• The Premier was also able to discuss with the Chancellor of the Washington University in St Louis the 6th McDonnell Academy Symposium to be held in Brisbane at UQ in September 2016. Options for the future policy development of the State, including appropriate government policy for diversification of the knowledge economy were also discussed.

• The Premier expressed thanks for the active participation of the Brookings Institution in the G20 Global Café and forthcoming Asia Pacific Cities Summit to be held in Brisbane.


Meeting with United States Navy, Pentagon

Date:

Venue:

Friday 12 June 2015

The Pentagon

Attendees

Mr Thomas W Hicks Under Secretary of the United States Navy

The Hon Dennis McGinn Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy for Environment Installations and Energy

Vice Admiral Philip Cullom United States Navy

Mr Joseph M Bryan Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy (Energy)

Mr Chris Tindal Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy (Energy)

Meeting summary

• This meeting provided an opportunity to understand the US Navy’s current and planned activities to trial the use of biofuels and identify global sources of biofuels as part of the Great Green Fleet Initiative.

• The ambition would be to enable the US Navy to refuel with biofuels in Queensland when the Great Green Fleet visits Australia in 2016.

• The US Navy advised:

• The policy drivers behind the switch to biofuels and the long-term commitment to biofuels beyond demonstration, including the national security imperative.

• The scale of fuel demand and costs per annum to inform industry planning in Queensland.

• The key tests to be applied in sourcing fuels, including that it should not come at the expense of global food production, it should be broadly competitive with conventional fuel, and that it should be ‘ready drop in’ with no significant modifications required to the existing infrastructure (e.g. engines).

• The delegation discussed the opportunity for the US Navy to increase its visits to Queensland from mid-2016 and how this could help facilitate the development of a biofuels/bio-industrial sector in Queensland.

• The delegation also set out Queensland’s advantages in terms of feedstocks and potential reliability of supply, R&D and supply chain capability.

• The delegation also discussed what support Queensland can offer the US Navy for their 2016 visit program and the combined exercises to be held at Shoalwater Bay Training Area near Rockhampton in July 2015.

• The Premier then attended a tour of the Pentagon, including paying respects at the National 911 Memorial.

Meeting with Dr Mitko Dimitrov


Date: Saturday 13 June 2015

Venue: Willard Intercontinental, Washington DC

Attendees

Dr Dimiter (Mitko) Dimitrov

Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute, US National Institute of Health

Professor Peter Grey Director, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), University of Queensland

Meeting Summary

• The meeting provided an opportunity to acknowledge the significant contribution made by Dr Dimitrov in association with the University of Queensland (UQ), in the development of the antibody now in Phase 1 clinical trials in Brisbane for the treatment of human Hendra virus. The trial has been underway since April 2015.

• The Premier discussed Queensland’s role and capacity in proactively seeking a treatment for this virus. This includes Queensland Health (QH) contracting UQ to manufacture the antibody for emergency stockpiles and for the human trials, as well as UQ’s AIBN developing the method of producing larger amounts of the antibody without needing to reproduce any part of the Hendra virus.

• Dr Dimitrov spoke very highly of the work being undertaken in Queensland at the AIBN, University of Queensland. He noted he has been collaborating closely with them for more than a decade.

• Dr Dimitrov applauded the approach taken by the Queensland Chief Health Officer in approving the Hendra antibody for “compassionate use” in Queensland, allowing many people to benefit from its protection.

• Dr Dimitrov and Professor Grey set out the increasing frequency of rare viral diseases and the potential of antibody treatments to improve responses. This included the potential to treat viruses such as SARS and MERS.

• Dr Dimitrov also noted Queensland has a good opportunity for developing and producing niche biotechnology products, with the facilities available at AIBN and at Patheon Antibodies accelerating development prior to Phase 1 trials.

• He praised Australia’s rapid path to clinical trials made possible through the development of the clinical trials network and also the recognition of Australian clinical trials results by the FDA in the USA and elsewhere.

• Discussions also took place regarding opportunities to liaise with the National Cancer Institute regarding responses to the MERS and SARS.

• The meeting also discussed the potential to extend the R&D tax credit to better support early stage antibody research for rare diseases.


Meeting with Smithsonian Museum of Natural History


Venue: Smithsonian Institution, Washington

Attendees

Dr David Schindel

Executive Secretary, Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Chair of the Board of Scientific Collections International (both hosted by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)

Meeting Summary

• The delegation was provided a full, behind the scenes tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. This provided the Premier and the delegation with a better understanding of the scale and breadth of the Museum in supporting mission-led research to address social, economic and environmental challenges.

• Dr Schindel outlined the approach being developed regarding scientific collections, including their important role as “national assets”, and the legislative framework governing their management and use. Dr Schindel set out the broad range of support the Smithsonian provides to a range of national agencies in furthering research of national and global importance and impact.

• The delegation also discussed the development of protocols for the repatriation of currently unprovenanced human remains, including several hundred Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remains.

• Reference was also made to the Museum’s interest in hosting a touring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture exhibition curated by the Queensland Museum.

• The delegation also discussed the World Science Festival which will be at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane for the next three years. The Smithsonian Institution is a supporter of the World Science Festival and was invited to provide a representative for inclusion in future World Science Forum events.


Attend performance by the Pennsylvania Ballet


Venue: Merriam Theatre, Philadelphia

Attendees

Mr David Gray Executive Director, Pennsylvania Ballet

Mr Angel Corella Artistic Director, Pennsylvania Ballet

Mr Johnathan Stiles Artistic Coordinator, Pennsylvania Ballet

Event Summary

• As a company with strong parallels and creative links to the Queensland Ballet, attendance at the performance and discussion with the management team of the Pennsylvania Ballet provided the Premier and Minster for the Arts with key insights into:

• The performance schedules, operation and funding model of the Pennsylvania Ballet.

• The Pennsylvania Ballet’s capital program.

• Work to engage new audiences.

• The focus and extent of the community programs of the Pennsylvania Ballet, which reach 11,000 young people every year.


Meeting with Biotechnology Industry Organisation

Date:

Venue:

Sunday 14 June 2015

The Westin, Philadelphia

Attendees

Mr James (Jim) Greenwood President and CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO)

Meeting Summary

• Mr Greenwood gave an overview of the history, growth and future plans of BIO. Mr Greenwood set out the importance of BIO in discovering new entrants in the industry, forming partnerships and helping evaluate emerging technologies.

• The Premier indicated the Government’s strong support for the life sciences and biotechnology sectors and a clear commitment to facilitate the hosting of future BIO events, including Bio Asia Pacific, in Queensland.

• Mr Greenwood also discussed the importance of the current Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations to further international trade, investment and collaboration in the life sciences industry.


QUT International Collaborations Luncheon

Date:

Venue:

Sunday 14 June 2015

The Westin, Philadelphia

Attendees

Professor Peter Coaldrake AO

Vice Chancellor and President, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) – host

Dr Amaya Gillespie Partnerships and Special Initiatives, The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – key note speaker

Event Summary

• The luncheon offered the opportunity to acknowledge the ongoing developments of Queensland’s life sciences industry, including the important role of QUT in the sector.

• The event showcased the state’s capability to a targeted audience of approximately 100 Queensland and international guests and encouraged further international collaborations and commercial opportunities.

• Vice Chancellor and President of QUT, Professor Coaldrake AO announced that QIMR Berghofer and QUT are to form an alliance to work together at the QIMR Berghofer site at Herston, with a focus on infectious diseases and neurosciences. This includes the transfer of 60 highly skilled staff being relocated to the QIMR Berghofer facility.

• The Premier witnessed the signing of the QIMR Berghofer and QUT Memorandum of Understanding.

• Professor Coaldrake also outlined the work QUT researchers are undertaking on issues such as resistance of bananas to diseases such as Panama disease, a prototype reef robot to assist in the eradication of crown of thorns starfish, chronic disease prevention and health economics.

• Dr Amaya Gillespie profiled the work she has been leading in West Africa in the recent Ebola outbreak. The strategic approach to managing the outbreak, logistics and behavioural insights had strong resonance to other disaster management and recovery efforts.

• Prior to lunch the delegation met with the keynote speaker Dr Gillespie, with the objective to understand her global perspective on healthcare, in particular child health and infectious diseases, and how she is helping to influence the medical research undertaken at QUT.


Meeting with Johnson & Johnson

Date:

Venue:

Sunday 14 June 2015

Union League of Philadelphia

Attendees

Dr Nick Pachuda Global Vice President, External Innovation, DePuy Synthes Orthopedics, a Johnson & Johnson company

Ms Melinda Richter Head of JLABS (J&J Biotech Incubator Network)

Ms Kathy Connell Director of New Ventures, Australia & New Zealand, Asia Pacific Innovation Centre

Meeting Summary

• The Premier acknowledged Johnson & Johnson’s collaborations to date with Queensland and discussions taking place with local stakeholders on the potential to establish a Johnson & Johnson Innovation Partnering Office in Brisbane to enhance the translation of Australian medical research.

• Ms Richter set out the role of JLabs in providing external partners with access to expertise and equipment as used by J&J R&D scientists. Ms Richter set out the ambition of Johnson & Johnson to partner with the 10 and 15 existing and emerging clusters across the world to develop the new generation of leaders of the biotech sector, including disruptive technology.

• Dr Pachuda outlined Johnson & Johnson’s work in the field of developing and deploying new and disruptive technologies. He outlined plans to partner with external expertise earlier to de-risk emerging technologies, and Johnson & Johnson’s strategic areas of focus.

• The Premier emphasised the Government’s commitment to stimulate innovation-led economic and jobs growth, including support for life sciences and the biotechnology sector.

• The Premier also took the opportunity to outline the Advance Queensland policy and proposed funding support of Government. This included a commitment to increase applied R&D; attract and retain research and entrepreneurial talent; increase collaboration between the research base, industry and SMEs; and support start-ups and economic growth by increasing the availability of venture capital investment and expertise in Queensland.

• The delegation also discussed Johnson & Johnson current collaborations with Queensland which include a world-wide licensing and research collaboration with the University of Queensland (UQ) owned company Dendright, to develop a novel treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and also a multi-year R&D collaboration with UQ’s Institute of Molecular Biosciences, investigating the use of spider venom as a potential treatment for chronic pain.


Meeting with Patheon Biologics

Date:

Venue:

Sunday 14 June 2015


Attendees

Mr Marc Goemans President, Global Marketing & Sales, Patheon Biologics

Ms Tertia Dex Director, Business Development, Patheon Biologics

Mr David Hughes Chief Executive Officer, BioPharmaceuticals Australia (BPA)

Meeting Summary

• The meeting with Patheon provided the Premier with the opportunity to congratulate and thank Patheon for their recognition of Brisbane as a place to do business and wished them success for the biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility. It is Australia's first biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing facility, currently employing around 70 highly skilled knowledge workers.

• Patheon advised that Inhibrix - a biologic immunotherapeutic company focused on the treatment of high unmet medical needs in oncology, infectious disease and inflammatory conditions - have selected the Brisbane site for all their manufacturing and will use this as a platform to deliver clinical materials.

• Three programs are being progressed and this is planned to increase to 17 over the next three years.

• The meeting also noted the continued strategic supporting role of BioPharmaceuticals Australia (BPA) who have partnered with Patheon as the commercial operator of the Scale-Up Manufacturing Facility.

• The Premier was updated on the implications of Patheon’s acquisition of Gallus BioPharmaceuticals in 2014. The acquisition is designed to open up new markets as part of a wider global business operation. The Brisbane facility continues to attract new bio-manufacturing contracts and remains on target to employ up to 100 highly-skilled workers when fully operational.


Queensland VIP Welcome Reception

Date:

Venue:

Sunday 14 June 2015


Guest Speakers

Mr Marc Goemans President, Global Marketing & Sales, Patheon Biologics

Mr David Hughes Chief Executive Officer, BioPharmaceuticals Australia

Event Summary

• The Premier hosted the reception to profile Queensland's life sciences capabilities to up to 200 guests from Queensland and around the world.

• Queensland has conducted missions to BIO for the past 15 years, and as a result has established the Queensland VIP Welcome Reception as one of the signature events leading up to the start of each BIO convention.

• During the speech, the Premier encouraged international partners to collaborate and invest in Queensland life sciences, develop commercial operations in Queensland and partner with our leading companies and research base.

• The Premier emphasized the Queensland Government’s continued commitment to the development of the life sciences industry in the state. The Premier emphasised the State’s capability to provide solutions to global challenges and the desire of Government to see the translation of more research to commercial outcomes, providing high-value jobs and exports for the state.

• The Premier also highlighted the Government’s commitment to additional investment through the Advance Queensland policy. It will help to increase applied R&D; attract and retain research and entrepreneurial talent; increase collaboration between the research base, industry and SMEs; and support start-up and growth by increasing the availability of venture capital investment and expertise in Queensland.

• The Premier also thanked Patheon and BPA for their sponsorship of the Queensland VIP event at BIO for the last three years.

• Mr Pennisi also announced the new Life Sciences Queensland Fellow - Dr Anand Gautam, Sourcing Director, Nono Nordisk.


Life Sciences Queensland Breakfast Roundtable

Date:

Venue:

Monday 15 June 2015


Event and Meeting Summary

• The Life Sciences Queensland (LSQ) breakfast profiled the capacity and developing medical related technologies of relevant Queensland delegates to senior decision-makers of large global pharmaceutical companies. Representatives at the breakfast were drawn from research, industry, startup and investment sectors.

• Mr Giovannetti from Ernst & Young provided a global industry perspective as context to these discussions.

• The Premier gave opening remarks on the Queensland Government’s ongoing support of the life sciences industry, its value to Queensland as an important source of high-value jobs. The Premier emphasised the importance the Government places in working with the global biotechnology industry to help translate Queensland’s life sciences and industrial biotechnology research into commercial and health outcomes.

• The Premier announced that LSQ would receive was to receive $1.86M over four years to continue to work as the industry body supporting the biotechnology sector in Queensland.

• The Premier also highlighted the Government’s commitment to new investment through Advance Queensland.

• The meeting participants discussed the importance of a competitive business environment, including boosting STEM education in schools. The Premier confirmed the intention of the Queensland Government to set out clear infrastructure investment priorities through a State Infrastructure Plan, a commitment to reduce unnecessary red tape through a new Red Tape Reduction Advisory Council, and to enhance the STEM offer in schools.

• Industry experts provided important insights regarding the importance of R&D, venture capital, a shared risk approach and ensuring that researchers understand what the customer wants, as well as the risk appetite for a particular product.


Meeting with Mr Glen Giovannetti, Global Life Sciences Leader, Ernst & Young

Date:

Venue:

Monday 15 June 2015


Attendees

Mr Glen Giovannetti Head of Global Life Sciences for Ernst & Young (EY)

Meeting Summary

• The meeting provided the Premier and the delegation to receive a briefing from Mr Giovannetti on EY’s annual Global Beyond Borders Biotechnology Report 2015, prior to the report’s launch at BIO2015.

• Mr Giovannetti provided:

• An overview of industry and investment trends across healthcare, biofuels, industrial and agricultural biotechnology.

• Insight on the typical life cycle of a life sciences company, from startup to IPO in 5-6 years, then a further 5-7 years to mature to full wealth and job creation stage.

• Insight on effective policies to support the future growth of Queensland’s life sciences industry. In particular, he noted that major pharmaceutical companies will pay a premium for potential products and treatments that have been significantly de-risked and that there was increased outsourcing of technical and regulatory functions.

• Confirmation of the strong investment interest in products with the potential to deliver a significantly improved standard of care.

• A summary of advantages on which Queensland could base its investment offer, notably as a gateway to Asia as a primary driver of global demand, our expertise in tropical disease, reputation for vaccine development and growing number of trade agreements.

• Confirmation of the importance of the tax treatment of stock options/direct shares as a recruitment tool in the industry and questioned how competitive Australia was in this regard.


Meeting with Emory University and the University of Queensland (UQ)

Date:

Venue:

Monday 15 June 2015


Attendees

Professor Dennis Liotta Executive Director Emory Institute for Drug Development, Department of Chemistry, Emory University

Professor Peter Høj Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Queensland (UQ)

Dr Dean Moss Chief Executive Officer, UniQuest Pty Ltd (UniQuest)

Professor Brandon Wainwright

Director of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland

Meeting Summary

• The Premier congratulated Professor Liotta and Professor Høj on the partnership between Emory University and UQ.

• The delegation acknowledged that the future of drug development and commercialisation in Queensland would benefit greatly from partnerships with experienced operators such as Emory University and Drug Innovative Ventures who have a strong track record of commercialisation.

• Emory University is a leader in the field and has a proven track-record of taking R&D through to commercialisation in compressed timeframes.

• Professor’s Liotta and Høj provided a briefing on the proposed Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative (QEDDI), a partnership between UQ and Emory University, which will translate healthcare-related research into drug candidates and ultimately new medicines.

• Professor Liotta also stated that he saw great opportunity to collaborate with the significant talent Queensland possesses, noting Spinifex (a pain medication) as a positive outcome of collaboration with Queensland researchers. He was particularly interested in dealing with vector-borne diseases (e.g. dengue fever, the chikungunya virus and Ross River Fever) which, due to climate change, will see increased and wider prevalence.

• QEDDI will be funded under the UQ Research Infrastructure program and have access to the support of Professor Liotta and Dr George Painter, CEO of DRIVE. It is proposed to establish the QEDDI service in the second half of 2015.

• The focus will be areas of large, unmet medical need – translating targets identified in Queensland into products that will benefit the public.

• Professor Liotta also noted that Australia was a good location to undertake early stage clinical trials given the R&D tax credit and procedures that were harmonised with the FDA.

• The Premier was pleased to make the announcement of this new partnership during the mission and to confirm the Government’s in principle support for the QEDDI initiative.


Meeting with Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development – Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Date: Monday 15 June 2015

Venue: Union League of Philadelphia

Attendees

Ms Sheri Collins Deputy Secretary, Office of Technology and Innovation, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development

Mr Neil Weaver Executive Deputy Secretary, Department of Community and Economic Development

Ms RoseAnn B Rosenthal President and CEO, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP)

Meeting Summary

• The Premier promoted Queensland’s capabilities in research and development across life sciences, biotechnology, information and digital technology and robotics. The Premier also emphasised the priority the Government placed on supporting translation of research, startup and commercialisation to support economic and jobs growth.

• The meeting discussed best practices in supporting early stage ventures, innovation and industry growth.

• The Premier particularly sought to understand the BFTP model for commercialisation of technologies and the learnings for the proposed Business Development Fund.

• BFTP was founded in 1983 by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and funded by the Department of Community and Economic Development as a state-wide initiative to foster innovation and stimulate economic growth.

• Ms Rosenthal set out how BFTP allocates seed funding successfully, their role in validating early stage businesses to other private investors and the range of mentoring and other support available to ensure businesses are investment ready. BFTP always co-invest, never investing alone. The approach is an evergreen model, with a five year requirement to remain invested prior to exit.

• Ms Rosenthal emphasized the importance and time needed to build a track record of credible exits. BFTP broker potential investees into investment readiness programs provided by other support organisations.

• Ms Collins and Mr Weaver also demonstrated the role of the State of Pennsylvania in supporting economic development, and measures to strengthen university and industry partnerships. They also highlighted the importance of industry-led groups in understanding economic opportunities and challenges in determining forward strategies

• The delegation explored potential avenues for collaboration and future partnerships between the respective jurisdictions.


Lunch with the Honourable Nick Minchin, Australian Consul-General (New York)

Date: Monday 15 June 2015

Venue: Philadelphia

Attendees

The Honourable Nick Minchin Australian Consul-General in New York

Mr Michael Schwager Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of Australia, DFAT

Ms Laura Rahn Deputy Director, Embassy of Australia, DFAT

Event Summary

• The Premier met with the Hon Nick Minchin and Embassy colleagues to gain an insight into latest economic trends, issues and opportunities impacting the trade relationship between Australia and the United States.

• The Premier further discussed the purpose of the trade mission to the United States, including attendance at BIO 2015 and the policy priorities of the Government in supporting innovation-led economic and jobs growth.


Visit to the Australian Pavilion, BIO2015

Date: Monday, 15 June 2015

Venue: Entrance A, BIO Exhibition, Pennsylvania Convention Centre, 12th street and Arch Street, Philadelphia

Host: Mr Mario Pennisi, CEO, Life Sciences Queensland (LSQ)

Event Summary

• The Premier visited the Australian Pavilion at BIO2015 and met with delegates at the LSQ stand.


Meeting with Professor Josh Lerner – Harvard Business School, Boston

Date: Tuesday 16 June 2015

Venue: Harvard Business School

Attendees

Professor Josh Lerner

Jacob H Schiff Professor of Investment Banking and, Head, Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Mr Mark Sowerby

Managing Director, Blue Sky Ventures

Professor Arun Sharma

Deputy Vice Chancellor, QUT

Mr Mario Pennisi Chief Executive Officer, Life Sciences Queensland Ltd

Meeting Summary

• Professor Lerner is an international thought leader on innovation, entrepreneurship and public interventions to stimulate entrepreneurial activity and venture capital investment. He has advised a number of national governments on strategies to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.

• Professor Lerner noted that approximately 85% of economic growth can be explained by innovation.

• The Premier and Professor Lerner discussed his November 2014 report Queensland’s Innovation Ecosystem and Recommendations for Future Actions.

• The report found that although Queensland’s macro-economic growth rates had mostly led those of comparable state and global benchmarks, Queensland significantly underperformed on a number of measures – particularly those related to commercialization, patenting and venture capital investment. Queensland has major potential if the innovation system challenges could be addressed.

• Professor Lerner has surveyed the stock of lessons of what works and what is less successful in terms of policies to strengthen innovation systems. In particular, he noted the success of co-investment models in building vibrant venture capital markets in Israel and New Zealand; and the success of nations and states in attracting and nurturing startup entrepreneurship such as is the case in Chile.

• The Premier and Professor Lerner also discussed his interest in using Queensland as a business case. Professor Lerner expressed a willingness to continue to engage with the Queensland Government in further designing and delivering interventions.

• Links and referrals generated by Professor Lerner through ongoing engagement with Queensland would have the potential to significantly raise the profile of Queensland’s innovation ecosystem at an international level.


Site visit to the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)


Venue: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Attendees

Professor Daniela Rus

Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

Dr Bernd Widdig

Director of International Affairs, Office of the Provost

Professor Arun Sharma

Deputy Vice Chancellor, QUT

Professor Jonathan Roberts

Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, QUT

Meeting Summary

• MIT is one of the leading private research universities in the world with a focus on science and technology.

• Dr Widdig provided an overview of the history and current operations of MIT. He set out the range of interdisciplinary research centres, strategic initiatives and international partnerships that provide a focus for MIT’s work. Specifically he highlighted the high level of entrepreneurship of MIT graduates, with 15% working in companies they founded and 25,800 active companies founded by MIT graduates providing annual sales of over $2 trillion.

• Dr Widdig also provided information on how MIT is making provision available through Open Course Ware, and their work in using big data to better understand how people learn.

• The CSAIL is MIT’s largest interdisciplinary institute and is home to MIT’s robotics research. Professor Daniela Rus, Director of CSAIL, is a leading robotics researcher.

• Professor Rus is a regular visitor to Queensland and actively collaborates with QUT on robotics research. QUT has made significant research investment in robotics and is considered Australia’s leading university in this important technology.

• QUT is host to the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Robotics Vision and is undertaking a very significant research project in farming robotics surrounding development of an agricultural robot for weed and crop management in broadacre as well as horticultural application. This project is in partnership with the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF).

• QUT’s collaboration with MIT has the potential to place Queensland at the forefront of robotics education globally. Additionally, QUT has recently introduced a popular Massive Open Online Course on the subject to a global audience.

• The Premier toured the world leading robotics facility at CSAIL and demonstrated support for the collaboration between Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and MIT.

• A range of important innovations and opportunities for Queensland were raised, including in the areas of robotics, security, cryptography, “grand challenge” topics and computing. Professor Rus also emphasized the importance of teaching coding at a young age.


Meeting with Athinoula A Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging - Harvard Medical School in conjunction with MIT and Siemens Healthcare


Venue: Massachusetts General Hospital

Attendees

Dr Bruce Rosen Director, Athinoula A Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging

Professor Carolyn Mountford

CEO and Director of Research, Translational Research Institute (TRI)

Mr Wellesley Ware Business Manager – MR, Siemans

Dr Christian Eusemann Vice President, Collaborations North America, Siemans

Meeting Summary

• Dr Rosen’s team from the Athinoula A Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging has worked with Siemens Healthcare to develop the brand new Positron Emission Tomography (PET) guided by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

• TRI in Brisbane is in the process of negotiating a Siemens Innovation and Translation Centre (SITC) to be housed at TRI. This venture will bring together UQ, QUT, Metro South Health and Mater Medical Research Institute. The SITC would be based on the model at the Martinos Biomedical Imaging Centre.

• This visit provided a demonstration of the interface between the Martinos Centre in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School with MIT and Siemens Healthcare USA and Germany.

• The delegation was given a demonstration of the new MRI-PET System developed at MGH, of which there are now two in Brisbane at the Herston Imaging Research Facility (HIRF), in which Siemen’s is the industry partner, and at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. It included a description of the technology and the clinical uses developed to date i.e. the new magnet technology and coil laboratory as well as a briefing on the collaboration with the Martinos Centre with TRI.

• MRI-PET enables precision medicine, improving diagnosis, the effectiveness of treatments and providing major efficiencies in healthcare delivery.

• Dr Rosen will undertake a sabbatical at TRI to teach and activate new MRI-PET programs in Brisbane, in October 2015. The SITC would be accompanied by an investment by QUT in at least 8 new radiography PhD students to be based at the SITC.

• Representatives from Siemens, outlined how the partnership provides invaluable engagement with leading clinical experts and customers which drives R&D.

• There is the potential for the new MRI-PET facility in Brisbane to become an Australian and South-East Asian facility for Siemens Healthcare. The Premier confirmed the Government’s commitment to support the establishment of the site at TRI.


Meeting with HealthCare Ventures

Date:

Venue:

Monday 15 June 2015

District Hall, Boston Innovation District

Attendees

Dr Christopher (Chris) Mirabelli Managing Director, Healthcare Ventures

Mr David Hoey Chief Executive Officer and Director, Vaxxas

Meeting Summary

• Healthcare Ventures (HCV) is a leading life science venture capital firm investing in pre-clinical or early clinical stage focused technologies with the potential to transform patient care.

• HCV’s approach identifies high potential products within academia or pharmaceutical companies, develops them to clinical proof-of-concept within capital efficient, semi-virtual organisations and generates returns through acquisitions by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

• HVC has raised $1.6 billion in nine funds over 25 years. It has invested in 106 companies, 68 as startup ventures, including Vaxxas, a start-up that is commercialising the nanopatch needle-less vaccine-delivery-technology developed by the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

• The meeting provided insight into the current trends in US venture capital investment activity in the biotechnology sector, and documented the experience of HCV in managing the biotechnology investment fund in which the Queensland Government invested $25M and remains a limited partner. HCV are confident of exits in the next 12-18 months.

• HCV has built considerable knowledge of the capability of Queensland’s life sciences sector, and its potential for its researchers and businesses to generate technologies that will attract future venture capital investment.

• HCV is optimistic about investment in Queensland, having previously conducted successful trials in Australia and having interacted with a venture capital fund at QIC.

• Mr Hoey gave an overview of current developments at Vaxxas including progress with clinical studies.


Tour of District Hall, Boston

Date:

Venue:

Tuesday 16 June 2015

District Hall, Boston Innovation District

Attendees

Queensland delegation

Event Summary

• The Premier and the delegation undertook a brief tour of District Hall at the heart of the rapidly developing Boston Innovation District.

• District Hall is a dedicated civic space where the innovation community can gather and exchange ideas, comprising open workspace, classrooms, assembly space, flexible use ‘pods’, and writable surfaces throughout the facility.

• District Hall was funded through a public private partnership.


Delegation meeting with Nigel Warren, Australian Consul General, San Francisco

Date:

Venue:

Wednesday 17 June 2015

Westin St Francis, San Francisco

Meeting Summary

• Mr Warren provided an overview of key commercial trends, drivers and issues in Silicon Valley.

• In particular, he noted:

• The focus of Silicon Valley venture capital investors on early stage ventures that have global ambition from the start and with technologies, platforms or business models that could disrupt existing markets and players.

• The very high labour market mobility in Silicon Valley, with engineers typically moving every 12-18 months and CEOs moving on average every 2.5 years.

• Issues of increasing cost and congestion which together with skills gaps and shortages is driving technology fly-in and fly-out from Southern California and other western States.

• The importance of Australian companies demonstrating customer pull and demand (rather than a push of products to the US market) to attract investment.

• The opportunity for Queensland companies to use platforms (such as that used by Salesforce) to get products and applications into US markets.

• The opportunity to leverage existing US companies who have invested in Australia.

• The benefits that would accrue from developing a network of Queensland Brand Ambassadors (respected entrepreneurs) in Silicon Valley and the USA more widely.


Meeting with Salesforce

Date:

Venue:


Market Street, San Francisco

Attendees

Mr Jim Green

Senior Vice President, Government Affairs

Mr Pablo Quintanilla

APAC Government Affairs

Mr David Dart Enterprise Account Manager, Queensland

Meeting Summary

• The Premier was provided with an overview of the Salesforce history, products and their applications in both government and industry, including cloud-based and subscription business models.

• Salesforce is leading the trend of customer focused technology instrumental in delivering better services or customer experience, and allows use of real-time multichannel data to inform business operations.

• The delegation were provided with case studies of various government use of Salesforce platforms and applications to improve engagement with and provision of services to citizens. This includes the provision of services at scale, improved quality and low cost.

• Salesforce currently has around 100,000 customers, with a heavy focus on the public and financial sectors. The company has a vision of 30,000 employees by 2020.

• The online platform, UberSalesforce, currently has 1.8 million developers generating new apps.

• Australia was identified as a top seven market for Salesforce.

• The number of Salesforce employees in Australia has doubled in the last two years and Queensland is in a good location to support the deployment and development of applications on the Salesforce platforms.

• Mr Green also provided an overview of the companies philanthropic and volunteering commitments.

• Salesforce also made the offer to convene a session with leading industry experts, Cabinet members and senior officials to examining how digital technologies are and will transform public services.


Meeting with Accel Partners

Date:

Venue:


University Avenue, Palo Alto

Attendees

Mr Andrew Braccia General Partner

Meeting Summary

• Accel Partners is a global top 20 venture capital firm with a demonstrated appetite to invest in Australian companies.

• It focuses on companies with an existing relationship to a large customer and has a focus on internet and consumer services, mobile, software and cloud enabling services. Accel Partners has funded more than 300 hundred digital technology companies, including startups and later-stage companies since 1983, including multinationals such as Facebook, Dropbox and Etsy.

• Unlike most US venture capital firms it invests globally, is sector agnostic and focused vertically.

• Mr Braccia gave an overview of key features and strengths of the Silicon Valley innovation system. This includes an educational focus that meets the needs of the existing and future economy, entrepreneurial faculty in key universities who move in and out of academia, deep pools of people with knowledge of how to build and scale a business, large volumes of ‘spin offs’, an appetite for risk by entrepreneurs and investors, effective incubators and programs, and strong internship programs.

• Mr Braccia suggested Government consider support to free up risk appetite, enhance tax credits for R&D, remove regulatory impediments to start up and growth, and use the power of Government as a customer to foster innovation.

• During the meeting the Premier and the delegation highlighted Queensland’s strengths in developing and applying digital and technology solutions in industries such as mining and minerals, unconventional gas, agricultural robotics and bioengineering as well as promoting Queensland’s capability and deal-flow across these areas. Opportunities to co-invest with local venture funds were highlighted.

• The Premier promoted Queensland as an attractive destination for Accel Partner’s portfolio companies to expand into the Asia Pacific region, leveraging the R&D capabilities, strong IP regime, R&D tax credit and available human capital in Queensland.

• The Premier also invited Accel Partners to visit Queensland and meet with digital and emerging technology companies as well as connect and collaborate with Queensland venture capital and business angel groups.

• As a result of this meeting, Trade and Investment Queensland will coordinate a program of meetings and introduce Accel Partners to leading companies that are seeking financial and management partners.


Meeting with Facebook

Date:

Venue:


Hacker Way, Menlo Park

Attendees

Mr Joel Pobar

Engineering Manager, Facebook

Meeting Summary

• The Premier met with Queenslanders currently working for Facebook and gained an insight into the benefits of experience in large international corporations for career development.

• The Premier also undertook a tour of the Facebook Campus.

• The meeting provided the opportunity to understand Facebook’s growth ambitions and future priorities, and how Queensland software engineers and companies can access and collaborate with Facebook.

• The presentation also emphaised the growing use of Facebook by small businesses with some 40 million SMEs now on Facebook using the site to target and reach customers. Recent analysis by Deloitte suggests that the direct and induced economic impact of Facebook in 2014, was some $227 billion and supported 4.5 million jobs.

• Facebook is also providing ‘Boost your Business’ workshops, events and online education to SMEs which could be rolled out in Queensland.

• The delegation highlighted Queensland’s digital sector and growing number of innovative digital providers and welcomed Facebook’s business as an anchor digital tenant to Queensland.

• The Premier extended an invitation to Facebook representatives to visit Queensland and meet with digital entrepreneurs and businesses seeking to reach new customers through online sales channels.

• The Premier also discussed the potential for Facebook to be used to better engage citizens and as a platform for tourism campaigns.


Meeting with General Electric

Date:

Venue:


Camino Ramon, San Ramon

Attendees

Mr Uday Tennety Mr Frank Napoleon

Director, Strategic Engagements & Innovation, (GE) Director, Corporate Development at Care Innovations

Meeting Summary

• GE was founded by Thomas Edison in 1878. The company is dedicated to leading edge R&D, as well as identifying new applications for its technology.

• GE’s US$1B San Ramon Software Centre of Excellence was established in 2011-12 in order to develop dedicated software capability in the “Industrial Internet”.

• GE’s Global Headquarters for Mining is based in Queensland. The Premier acknowledged and congratulated GE on its Springfield headquarters as well as acknowledging the confidence expressed in Queensland for its global headquarters for mining.

• The meeting followed the official opening of the purpose-built $72M GE Queensland headquarters in Springfield on 10 June 2015. GE is a significant employer in Queensland and its presence is one of the most significant of all the Fortune 500 companies operating in Queensland.

• GE has indicated Australia will host a satellite of its San Ramon Software Centre of Excellence. It is expected that GE staff based in Queensland will be part of the Australian Software Centre, which would be a positive outcome for the technology sector in the state.

• The Premier explored the possibility of extending GE’s existing presence to expand further as a satellite of the San Ramon Software Centre in Queensland.

• The delegation also discussed with GE their views on the future of work and technology and the application of GE platforms (Predix) and data analytics to improve public services and asset management including distributed and preventative healthcare and transport systems.

• The Premier toured GE’s facilities including their innovative co-working and simulation spaces.


Innovation Investor Dinner

Date:

Venue:


Post Street, San Francisco

Attendees

Mr Morgan Littlewoood Founder, Kodiak Data

Ms Michelle Peacock Global Head of Government Relations, Relay Rides

Mr Al Burgio

Dr Kim Silverman

Mr Nigel Warren

Mr Jos Brenkel

Mr John Scull

Mr Andrew Roberts

Ms Linda Kekelis

Mr Daniel Kennedy

Mr David Dart

Mr Aaon Gershenberg

Mr Alfredo Coppola

Dr Mark Bregman

CEO and Founder, International Internet Exchange

Principal Research Scientist, Apple

Consul-General, San Francisco

Head of Sales, HPI

Managing Director, Southern Cross Venture Partners

CEO, Ephox

CEO, Techbridge

President, Sungevity

Salesforce

Managing Director Global Gateway, Silicon Valley Bank

CEO, US Market Access

Bay Area Science & Innovation Consortium

Event Summary

• The Premier hosted a number US company representatives and academic leaders with extensive deep knowledge of the innovation system in Silicon Valley. Many of the invited executives originated from or had significant experience in business dealings with Australian companies and markets.

• The Premier highlighted the breadth and strength of Queensland’s economy, the Government’s vision to position Queensland as an innovation hub in the Asia Pacific, and commitment to innovation-led economic and jobs growth.

• The dinner gave the delegation an opportunity to understand firsthand the drivers and features of Silicon Valley’s success in building a technology-driven economy, the opportunities for Government support for entrepreneurship and innovation, and how to strengthen trade, investment and strategic partnering links between businesses in Silicon Valley and Queensland.


Meeting with Tesla

Date: Thursday 18 June 2015

Venue: Tesla, Freemont

Attendees

Mr Greg Callman Charging Infrastructure and Stationary Storage, Tesla

Meeting Summary

• Tesla was founded in 2008 as a start-up company to design and manufacture electric cars and later energy storage. It was founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk.

• The delegation was provided with a presentation covering Tesla’s strategic priorities, growth plans and product range. The delegation also undertook a tour of the Tesla Factory, the most integrated car plant in the world. The Premier also had the opportunity to test drive the latest Tesla sports car.

• The Premier was able to convey the Government’s desire to see Queensland feature in the company’s plans for expansion into Australia.

• Queensland’s emerging capability in the electric vehicle sector was discussed as well as the benefits of potential partnering opportunities with Queensland companies. The Premier also spoke about the Government’s support of initiatives that create cleaner and more livable cities and regions as well as the commitment to innovation to ensure Queensland’s long-term competitiveness, resilience and job creation.

• The delegation discussed the high rate of penetration of solar and renewable energy in Queensland across residential and commercial applications and the dispersed nature of Queensland’s population, which would support large scale application of energy storage technologies, such as the “PowerWall” Tesla Battery.

• Australia and Queensland are seen as a significant target markets for Tesla.

• The Premier also sought information on the company’s expansion plans given the demand for the Powerwall residential and commercial scale batteries.

• The Premier extended an invitation for Tesla representatives to travel to Queensland and the willingness of Government to facilitate meetings with potential distribution and installation partners in Queensland.

• As Queensland has secured rights to host the World Science Festival for a period of six years, the Premier extended an invitation to Elon Musk to attend the event in 2017 as the keynote speaker.


Meeting with Legendary Pictures


Venue: Legendary Pictures, Burbank

Attendees

Ms Noelle Green Vice President Production, Legendary Pictures (LP)

Mr Sean Cooney Senior Vice President Post Production, LP

Mr Brian Wensel Senior Vice President Production Finance, LP

Ms Marie Elder Vice President Production Finance, LP

Mr Randy Starr VFX Producer, LP

Meeting Summary

• Legendary is a leading media company with film, television and comics divisions dedicated to owning, producing and delivering content to mainstream audiences with a targeted focus on the powerful “fandom” demographic.

• Legendary, together with Universal Pictures, are the production company behind Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken which was filmed in Queensland and New South Wales from September 2013 to January 2014 and was distributed by Legendary. The final Queensland production expenditure for Unbroken was $22.5M. There were 785 Queensland cast and crew employed and some 411 Queensland vendors were engaged. The Premier expressed appreciation to Legendary for these benefits.

• The purpose of the meeting was to encourage Legendary Pictures to choose Queensland as the primary location for a major upcoming production. In February 2015, the director and producers travelled to Queensland to scout locations in South East and Far North Queensland for the film.

• The meeting provided the opportunity to emphasise the Government’s support for the film industry and recognition of the benefits that major productions bring to Queensland and local communities. The Premier also confirmed that the Government, through Screen Queensland, would give strong consideration to a package of support to secure the film in Queensland.

• The Premier also encouraged Legendary to consider a long-term slate of productions and presence in Queensland.


Meeting with Marvel Pictures


Venue: Marvel Studios, Burbank

Attendees

Mr Mitch Bell Vice President, Production, Marvel Pictures

Mr David Grant Vice President, Production, Marvel Pictures

Mr Chris McComb Vice President, Finance, Marvel Pictures

Ms Mary Ann Hughes

Vice President, Film and Television Production Planning, Marvel Pictures

Meeting Summary

• Marvel Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company which is currently filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in Queensland. Marvel Entertainment makes large-scale feature films with well-known comic characters.

• Screen Queensland has a well-established relationship with Disney who arranged the introduction to Marvel. This is a new relationship for Screen Queensland and Australia. Given the size and quantity of productions that Marvel makes, it provides a unique opportunity to explore a long-term relationship with the studio and Queensland.

• Marvel indicated its interest in filming a feature film in Queensland and requested a meeting with the Queensland Government.

• During the meeting the Premier emphasised the Government’s support for the film industry and recognition of the benefits that major productions bring to Queensland and local communities. The delegation also sought information on the timelines, scale and locational requirements for future Marvel productions.

• The Premier also confirmed that the Government through Screen Queensland will provide support to facilitate major productions and give strong consideration to a package of support to secure productions. The Premier extended an invitation to Marvel executives to visit Queensland as part of considering locations.

• As a result of this meeting, Screen Queensland will continue to liaise with Marvel and make a case both creatively and economically to secure the film for Queensland.

• Marvel raised the non-competitive nature of Australian Government locational tax offsets when compared to other international jurisdictions as a significant issue and sought Queensland Government support in raising this issue with the Australian Government. The Premier committed to raising this issue with the relevant Australian Government Ministers.


Meeting with Disney


Venue: Walt Disney Studios, Burbank

Attendees

Mr Sean Bailey President, Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, Disney

Mr Phil Steuer Senior Vice President – Production, Disney

Mr Foster Driver Creative Executive, Disney

Ms MaryAnn Hughes

Ms Ryan Stankevich

Vice President – Film and Television Production Planning, Disney

Vice President – Publicity, Disney

Meeting Summary

• Disney is currently filming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales in Queensland which is the largest budget production to occur in Australia. Disney own a large number of companies including LucasFilm, Bruckheimer Productions, Pixar, Marvel and Touchstone and is interested in a long-term relationship with Queensland.

• Within Screen Queensland’s contract with Disney are tourism opportunities including a tourism/film advertisement that can be played in international cinemas as the trailer starts playing in 2017 in cinemas. There are also opportunities for tourism promotions tied in with the film in key tourism markets and building a website that can tie the film to key tourism locations in Queensland. These opportunities will be progressed in 2016 and early 2017.

• Pirates of the Caribbean’s official Facebook site has more than 24 million followers and will shortly start posting social media utilizing Tourism Queensland hashtags to tie the film and Queensland locations together in an effort to drive tourists to Queensland.

• Screen Queensland has worked closely with Tourism and Events Queensland to develop a model that enables Queensland to align visual elements from the film with tourism locations in Queensland, ensuring that the benefits of the production continue to the state, long after filming has completed.

• Disney sees Queensland as a partner in promoting the film and this gives Queensland leverage over other locations trying to secure production.

• The Premier sought an understanding from Disney regarding how Queensland can build on the success of Pirates of the Caribbean and secure other Disney or its subsidiary company productions and become Disney’s partner of choice over the next three to five years. The delegation also discussed what Disney had in their upcoming work program and what may work creatively in Queensland.


NBC Universal tour followed by dinner meeting


Venue: Universal City and Toluca Lake

Attendees

Ms Carrie Henderson

Vice President, Business Affairs NBC Universal

Mr Rick Smotkin

Senior Vice President Government Affairs, Comcast

Mr Arturo Barguet Chief Financial Officer, Film Production, Universal Pictures

Meeting Summary

• NBC Universal hosted the Premier on a tour of Universal Studios followed by a dinner meeting with senior executives to discuss forthcoming plans and production opportunities.

• NBC Universal own Matchbox Pictures (acquired in January 2014) which has recently opened offices in Queensland through a Screen Queensland Enterprise program. It has just completed its first series in Australia called ‘The Family Law’ which is currently in post-production and will first air on SBS.

• The Matchbox acquisition is part of a broader strategy at NBC Universal to set up an international network of local production companies. These include UK shingles: Carnival Films, Monkey Kingdom, Lucky Giant and Chocolate Media as well as a joint venture with Working Title Television and Lark Productions in Canada. NBC Universal has a variety of divisions across film and television as well as work with companies such as Legendary Pictures on distribution.

• NBC Universal has indicated an interest in continuing to make television through Matchbox in Queensland. It has registered interest and is specifically talking with Screen Queensland on bringing high-end television series to Queensland and potentially bringing an ongoing slate/guaranteed spend to the State. Funding for the development of high-end television is available through Screen Australia and Screen Queensland.

• The Premier’s meeting helped to establish a relationship with NBC Universal to support discussions with Screen Queensland about securing a high end television series. The Premier also sought to establish if any series are currently considered for Australia and promoted the benefits of producing in Queensland.

• The delegation noted that Screen Queensland would continue to liaise with NBC Universal and Matchbox Pictures to attract and develop television series for Queensland.

FRI 19 JUNE 2015

Mediaportal Report

12/06/2015 (4 items)

World News...12 Jun 2015 4:01 PMNOVA 106.9, Brisbane, 16:00 News, Newsreader

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World NewsUS - Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has touched down in Washington DC for her first overseas trade mission.

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Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is in the US on a trade mission, and is urging the US ...12 Jun 2015 6:05 PMSeven Townsville, Townsville, Seven Local News, Rob Brough

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Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is in the US on a trade mission, and is urging the US navy to source renewable energyfrom North Qld. The US wants an entire fleet of warships running on biofuels by next year.

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has arrived in Washington on an investment seeking ...12 Jun 2015 6:08 PMChannel 7, Brisbane, Seven News, Kay McGrath and Rod Young

Duration: 1 min 10 secs • ASR AUD 17,506 • QLD • Australia • Ministerial - Radio & TV • ID: M00062078171

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has arrived in Washington on an investment seeking mission. Tomorrow she will visit thePentagon to see how the QLD sugar cane industry can play a greater role in the future in fuelling the US Navy fleet. JackieTrad is acting Premier while Palaszczuk is overseas.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier is looking to secure a US defence base in ...12 Jun 2015 6:10 PMChannel 9, Brisbane, National Nine News, Andrew Lofthouse and Melissa Downes


Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier is looking to secure a US defence base in Qld during a trade mission to America,and will head to the Pentagon tomorrow. She hopes to find a new home for the US Pacific Fleet in Townsville. The fleet willneed to adopt bio-fuels and Qld will need a bigger bio-fuel industry in order for this to happen. Palaszczuk has said this is likelyto happen, as the Qld CSG industry did not appear until recently.

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13/06/2015 (14 items)

QLD:US navy may support Qld biofuels: premier13 Jun 2015AAP Newswire, Australia, National, AAP

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Premier's trip may see city's ship come in13 Jun 2015Townsville Bulletin, Townsville QLD, General News

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FUEL OF HOPE13 Jun 2015Townsville Bulletin, Townsville QLD, General News, Victoria Nugent

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The trickle-down effect of trade trips13 Jun 2015 12:06 AMBrisbane Courier-Mail by Steven Wardill

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Fuel of hope13 Jun 2015 8:41 AMTownsville Bulletin by Victoria Nugent

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Annastacia Palaszczuk's offers US Navy help for renewable energy targets13 Jun 2015 10:38 AMBrisbane Times

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US navy may support Qld biofuels: premier13 Jun 2015 11:52 AMBrisbane Courier-Mail by adelaidenow.com.au editor

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US navy may support Qld biofuels: premier13 Jun 2015 11:52 AMBrisbane Courier-Mail


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Mackay sugar cane could power US Navy ships13 Jun 2015 12:21 PMGladstone Observer by Emily Smith


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US navy could create thriving biofuel hub in Queensland, Palaszczuk says | Environment13 Jun 2015 1:55 PMGuardian Australia

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier, has used a visit to the Pentagon to unveil ...13 Jun 2015 6:03 PMChannel 7, Brisbane, Seven News (Saturday), Kay McGrath and Rod Young

Duration: 2 mins 35 secs • ASR AUD 45,510 • QLD • Australia • Ministerial - Radio & TV • ID: M00062083412

Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier, has used a visit to the Pentagon to unveil a bold plan for Townsville to become amajor refuelling stop for the US Navy. The scheme would also make it easier go get biofuels. like ethanol, into Queenslandcars. The biofuel would be refined at a local plant producing ethanol from sugar cane. Meantime, the University of Queenslandwill host a meeting of world leaders on climate change, food security and ageing in September next year. Palaszczuk will visit amedical institute that came up with the first vaccine against hendra virus tomorrow.

Audience

289,000 ALL, 130,000 MALE 16+, 139,000 FEMALE 16+

Interviewees

Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Mark Wrighton, Washington University St Louis


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Three Qld cities are in the running to become refuelling ports for the US Navy, but an ...13 Jun 2015 6:09 PMChannel 9, Brisbane, National Nine News (Saturday) , Eva Milic


Three Qld cities are in the running to become refuelling ports for the US Navy, but an entirely new ethanol biofuel industry isfirst required. Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier is visiting the Pentagon as part of her overseas trade mission.Townsville, Gladstone and Mackay are the towns in the running and Palaszczuk is confident that if a new CSG industry can becreated, so can a biofuels industry.

Audience

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Palaszczuk strives for smarter smart state13 Jun 2015 10:13 PMBrisbane Times by Amy Remeikis

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14/06/2015 (15 items)

QLD:Qld scientists examine global diseases14 Jun 2015AAP Newswire, Australia, National, AAP

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Queensland scientists examine global diseases14 Jun 2015 2:00 AMBrisbane Times by brisbanetimes.com editor

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier says that the US Navy is keen to partner ...14 Jun 2015 7:48 AM612 ABC Brisbane, Brisbane, 07:45 News (Weekend), Newsreader

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier says that the US Navy is keen to partner with the Qld Government to developalternative biofuel sources. Bob Katter, Leader, Katter’s Australian Party says a partnership with the US could mean thousandsof new jobs in Qld.

Audience

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Interviewees

Bob Katter, Leader, Katter’s Australian Party


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Queensland signs partnership with Smithsonian (AUDIO AVAILABLE)14 Jun 2015 8:43 AMQueensland Government

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has announced Queensland scientists will ...14 Jun 2015 10:01 AM4BC, Brisbane, 10:00 News (Weekend), Newsreader

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has announced Queensland scientists will start working with US researchers tohelp develop an anti-body against Hendra virus.

Audience

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has announced Queensland scientists will ...14 Jun 2015 11:04 AM4KQ, Brisbane, 11:00 News (Weekend), Newsreader



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Qld scientists examine global diseases14 Jun 2015 11:45 AMThe Australian

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Qld scientists will start working with US researchers to help develop an anti-body against ...14 Jun 2015 1:01 PM2GB, Sydney, 13:00 News (Weekend), Newsreader

Duration: 0 min 34 secs • ASR AUD 1,649 • NSW • Australia • Ministerial - Radio & TV • ID: W00062085406

Qld scientists will start working with US researchers to help develop an anti-body against Hendra virus. Annastacia Palaszczuk,Queensland Premier, says Qld are first responders to these emerging issues.

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Queensland scientists examine global diseases14 Jun 2015 2:14 PMBrisbane Times

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QLD signs deal with Smithsonian Institute to further R14 Jun 2015 5:01 PMNewsMail by Sherele Moody

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has signed a partnership with the ...14 Jun 2015 6:04 PMChannel 9, Brisbane, National Nine News (Sunday), Eva Milic


Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has signed a partnership with the Smithsonian during her American trademission, with the museum keen to share its collection. The museum features in Hollywood's 'Night at the Museum' movies.Palaszczuk is now heading to a biotechnology conference in Philadelphia. Meanwhile Dimiter Dimitrov, US National CancerInstitute is working with University of Queensland scientists to stop MERS.

Audience

244,000 ALL, 119,000 MALE 16+, 108,000 FEMALE 16+

Interviewees

Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Dimiter Dimitrov, US National Cancer Institute|Peter Gray, UQ|ScottMiller, Smithsonian Institution








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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier, says Queensland can play a major role in ...14 Jun 2015 6:06 PMChannel 7, Brisbane, Seven News (Sunday), Sharyn Ghidella and Bill McDonald


Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier, says Queensland can play a major role in fighting what could become the nextbig pandemic to sweep the globe. During her trade mission to America, she said Queensland's experience with Hendra Virusmeans it's ready to help. The vaccine for the virus was created through a partnership between the University of Queenslandand the American National Institutes of Health. They now hope to target Middle Eastern Respiratory System (MERS).Palaszczuk has also signed a funding deal with the Smithsonian Institution to give researchers better access to the world'slargest scientific collection. She has since travelled to Philadelphia for the Bio 2015 conference.

Audience

331,000 ALL, 140,000 MALE 16+, 168,000 FEMALE 16+

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Dimiter Dimitrov, US National Institutes of Health|Peter Gray,Australian Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology


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QLD signs deal with Smithsonian Institute to further R14 Jun 2015 6:51 PMNoosa News by noosanews.com.au editor

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Queensland scientists will team up with US researchers to help develop and anti-body ...14 Jun 2015 9:02 PM2GB, Sydney, 21:00 News (Weekend), Newsreader

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Queensland scientists will team up with US researchers to help develop and anti-body against the growing global threat ofemerging diseases, as it is hoped their work on an anti-Hendra virus treatment can lead to tackling other diseases like MERS.Speaking from Washington DC, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says this shows Queensland can be world leaders in researchand innovation.

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Cane could fuel fleet15 Jun 2015Daily Mercury, Mackay QLD, General News, Emily Smith

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Hendra success opens door to collaboration15 Jun 2015The Australian, Australia, Edition Changes - QLD First

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Cane could fuel fleet15 Jun 2015Daily Mercury, Mackay QLD, General News, Emily Smith

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Trio of sites in running for biofuels plant15 Jun 2015Townsville Bulletin, Townsville QLD, General News


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Trio of sites in running for biofuels plant15 Jun 2015 12:02 AMTownsville Bulletin by Victoria Nugent


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Townsville is well-placed to become a biofuel hub for the US Navy, according to the Qld ...15 Jun 2015 6:31 AMABC North Queensland, Townsville, 06:30 News, Newsreader


Townsville is well-placed to become a biofuel hub for the US Navy, according to the Qld Government. Annastacia Palaszczuk,Queensland Premier, is in the United States to discuss the possibility of US forces sourcing biofuels from Qld. A spokesman forPalaszczuk says Mackay and Gladstone are well-placed production hubs while the Townsville port has a strong position toexport biofuels.

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Some of Qld scientists will team up with US researchers to help develop a cure against ...15 Jun 2015 7:02 AMHot Tomato, Gold Coast, 07:00 News, Newsreader

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Some of Qld scientists will team up with US researchers to help develop a cure against the Hendra virus.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Qld Premier

Biofuel made from Mackay sugar cane is on the list as some of the most environmentally-...15 Jun 2015 7:31 AMSEA FM Mackay, Mackay, 07:30 News, Newsreader


Biofuel made from Mackay sugar cane is on the list as some of the most environmentally-friendly in the world, as suggested by[Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier], to the United States Navy at the Pentagon. [Palaszczuk] says that Mackay andGladstone could be a location for a biofuel production plant. Kevin Borg, chairman, Canegrowers Mackay, has told the DailyMercury that it would require more cane to be produced.

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Queensland signs partnership with Smithsonian15 Jun 2015 9:26 AMMySunshineCoast by Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier and Mini

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The Queensland Institute of Medical Research has been given approval to move to ...15 Jun 2015 3:02 PM612 ABC Brisbane, Brisbane, 15:00 News, Newsreader

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The Queensland Institute of Medical Research has been given approval to move to advanced clinical trials for newimmunotherapy cancer treatment. Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has indicated to delegates at the biotechconference in the U.S. the approval was granted by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

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Professor Radgiff Kamar (*), Queensland Institute of Medical Research


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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has pitched Qld's biotechnology expertise ...15 Jun 2015 5:02 PMChannel 10, Brisbane, TEN Eyewitness News, Georgie Lewis

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has pitched Qld's biotechnology expertise to pharmaceutical giants at aPhiladelphia convention. Palaszczuk believes Qld just needs the reputation and connections to commercialise discoveries.QIMR scientists have been developing new immuno-therapies which have now been approved to start trials on cancer patients,with the treatment hopefully being able to stave off relapses or secondary cancers. Lawrence Springborg, QueenslandOpposition Leader says there has been no evidence of new jobs being attracted to Qld. Palaszczuk also announced a newpartnership between QUT, QIMR and an Indian research institute to help the university translate discoveries into real products.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Karl Kelly, Clemson University|Lawrence Springborg, QueenslandOpposition Leader|Prof. Frank Gannon, CEO, QIMR|Prof. Peter Coaldrake, Vice-Chancellor, QUT|Prof. RajovKhanna, Immunologist, QIMR


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Queensland could soon be holding clinical trials for new cancer therapist after ...15 Jun 2015 5:02 PMHot FM 91.1, Sunshine Coast, 17:00 News, Newsreader

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Queensland could soon be holding clinical trials for new cancer therapist after Queensland Institute of Medical Research hasbeen given approval to manufacture and trial for new cancer treatments. Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier hasmade the announcement in Philadelphia during her US Trade mission.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier is continuing her US tour, hosting a ...15 Jun 2015 5:04 PMChannel 9, Brisbane, Nine Afternoon News, Eva Milic

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier is continuing her US tour, hosting a Philadelphia reception for some of theworld's biggest pharmaceutical companies. It's part of a bid to secure more research jobs and funding for Qld. Palaszczuk hasmentioned that 1 William Street has seven empty floors, which will leave a hole in the Qld Budget numbering in the tens ofmillions of dollars of service. She adds that she will not cut services or raise taxes.

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Canegrowers has welcomed the Premier's Pentagon pitch for Queensland to supply ...15 Jun 2015 6:05 PMSeven Mackay, Mackay, Seven News Mackay, Rob Brough

Duration: 1 min 48 secs • ASR AUD 998 • QLD • Australia • Trade Radio & TV • ID: M00062102435

Canegrowers has welcomed the Premier's Pentagon pitch for Queensland to supply sugar biofuels to the US Navy. Theindustry group says it could generate another income stream for the sector as the commodity price stays low. Tim Mulherin,Former Agriculture Minister, first proposed the idea in 2011. Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier, says Queenslandcan lead the way when it comes to alternative fuel supplies, such as ethanol. Recently, the industry has battled a lowinternational sugar price and adverse weather conditions, meaning the diversity could help growers. The potential internationaldemand for ethanol would also require farmers to grow different varieties of cane.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Kerry Latter, Canegrowers|Tim Mulherin, Former Agriculture Minister


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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk wants some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical ...15 Jun 2015 6:08 PMChannel 7, Brisbane, Seven News, Sharyn Ghidella and Bill McDonald


Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk wants some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies to start making medicine inQueensland. The Government is trying to stop local researchers from losing their rewards for their ideas. It came asPalaszczuk attended a business conference in USA. Today Palaszczuk revealed a hole in the 1 William Street project, thatthere are no takers for the 7 floors have been set aside for the private sector. She says the Treasurer is looking at options toaddress that. Jackie Trad was due to hold a media event in Brisbane today but cancelled at the last moment.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Frank Gannon, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute|KarlKelly, Clemson University South Carolina


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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier is defending her trade trip to the US as ...15 Jun 2015 6:27 PMChannel 9, Brisbane, National Nine News, Andrew Lofthouse and Melissa Downes


Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier is defending her trade trip to the US as 'vital' to Qld's future, saying she isfocused on four economic pillars and is trying to create the fifth - biotechnology. Qld universities and QIMR are keeping moremoney they make from breakthroughs. Rental deals on seven floors of 1 Williams St have fallen through, with Palaszczuksaying taxpayers will take the hit. Lawrence Springborg, Queensland Opposition Leader disagrees.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Frank Gannon, CEO, QIMR Berghofer|Lawrence Springborg,Queensland Opposition Leader|Peter Coaldrake, QUT



Townsville is in the running to become the hub of a brand new biofuel industry. ...15 Jun 2015 7:04 PMWIN Townsville, Townsville, WIN News, Natassia Apolloni

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Townsville is in the running to become the hub of a brand new biofuel industry. Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier,says the industry will supply fuel to vessels from the US navy. Jenny Hill, Townsville Mayor, says sugar cane makes biofuel.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Jenny Hill, Townsville Mayor




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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier, is blaming the previous LNP Government ...15 Jun 2015 7:08 PMABC, Brisbane, ABC News, Karina Carvalho


Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier, is blaming the previous LNP Government for a rental deal that will force it tooccupy every floor of the new Executive Building. Palaszczuk was at the BIO International Convention in the US andannounced that Brisbane scientists will test new cancer therapies. QIMR is the second facility in the country to get a licence tomanufacture cellular therapies for human use, meaning clinical trials can start. In the future it could reduce the need for moreinvasive cancer treatments. Lawrence Springborg, Queensland Opposition Leader, says to date he has seen Palaszczuk signthe same things Peter Beattie signed when he was Premier. The Government has confirmed it will move into the ExecutiveBuilding. Labor says it is making the best of the bad situation it was left in.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Lawrence Springborg, Queensland Opposition Leader|Rajiv Khanna,QIMR

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16/06/2015 (8 items)

Scientists work on hendra antibody16 Jun 2015Gympie Times, Gympie QLD, General News, Shelley Strachan


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Green light raises hopes for cancer drugs16 Jun 2015The Australian, Australia, Edition Changes - QLD First

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YES WE 'CANE'16 Jun 2015Gladstone Observer, Gladstone QLD, General News, Helen Spelitis

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Qld premier eyes US navy for biofuels push16 Jun 2015 4:14 PMBrisbane Courier-Mail


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A new deal struck on Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's US trade mission will ...16 Jun 2015 5:07 PMChannel 10, Brisbane, TEN Eyewitness News, Georgie Lewis


A new deal struck on Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's US trade mission will see locally discovered drugs hit themarket sooner. She announced the partnership between the University of Queensland and an American university at aconvention in the US.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Dennis Liotta, Emory Drug Institute for Drug Development




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The University of Qld has signed a deal that could deliver bigger dividends than the ...16 Jun 2015 6:12 PMChannel 9, Brisbane, National Nine News, Andrew Lofthouse and Melissa Downes


The University of Qld has signed a deal that could deliver bigger dividends than the richest coal mine. After inventing theworld's first cancer vaccine, they have teamed up with Emory University to hopefully do the same for AIDS. AnnastaciaPalaszczuk, Queensland Premier is in the US talking to various biotechnology companies and universities. She is due to talk toUber.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Dennis Liotta, Emory University|Peter Hoj, University of Qld



Queensland's biotechnology industry could one day grow into rivalling coal exports, if ...16 Jun 2015 6:32 PMChannel 7, Brisbane, Seven News, Sharyn Ghidella and Bill McDonald


Queensland's biotechnology industry could one day grow into rivalling coal exports, if Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk gets herway. University of Queensland has just beaten dozens of rivals to sign a deal with one of the world's biggest names in medicalresearch. It will be part of a program to cut the time it takes to get new pharmaceuticals from research to treatment.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Dennis Liotta, Scientist|Peter HOJ, University of Queensland



Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk 's sales pitch has moved to Boston, where she will visit ...16 Jun 2015 6:34 PMChannel 7, Brisbane, Seven News, Sharyn Ghidella and Bill McDonald


Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk 's sales pitch has moved to Boston, where she will visit Harvard Business School. She willalso visit MIT to look at a robotics program it's working on with University of Queensland, as well as Massachusetts GeneralHospital which is doing an imaging study with Translational Research Institute in Brisbane.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has continued her trade mission in the US, ...17 Jun 2015 11:35 AMChannel 9, Brisbane, Nine Morning News, Eva Milic


Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has continued her trade mission in the US, determined to make QLD a cuttingedge technology hub. Meanwhile domestic politics have followed her, with debate still raging over the new CCC Head.

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has visited Brisbane researchers at a laboratory in the ...17 Jun 2015 6:36 PMChannel 7, Brisbane, Seven News, Sharyn Ghidella and Bill McDonald


Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has visited Brisbane researchers at a laboratory in the US, as the State Government moves toequip more school children with the skills to make and operate robots. Robots at the lab, which may be used for surgicalprocedures, are part of a collaboration between QUT and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Queensland is the world'sfirst test site for robotic drones, delivering supplies to graziers near Warrick. They may have a bigger role to play asgenerations of grain farmers walk off the land.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|Arun Sharma, Queensland University of Technology










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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier is in San Francisco for a trade mission, ...18 Jun 2015 11:38 AMChannel 9, Brisbane, Nine Morning News, Eva Milic


Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier is in San Francisco for a trade mission, visiting the headquarters of Facebook.She commented on the State of Origin match, stating QLD were 'robbed'. She also commented on luring expatriates back toeducate others and bring skills to Australia. She will visit leaders in battery technology tomorrow.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier, has been to Facebook headquarters and ...18 Jun 2015 5:32 PMChannel 10, Brisbane, TEN Eyewitness News, Georgie Lewis


Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier, has been to Facebook headquarters and hinted there will be new money to keepthe best and brightest IT students in the state.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has visited Facebook's headquarters on ...18 Jun 2015 6:30 PMChannel 9, Brisbane, National Nine News, Andrew Lofthouse and Melissa Downes


Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier has visited Facebook's headquarters on her trade tour of the US. Palaszczuk hasstated she is planning to introduce budget measures to attract Qld ex-pats back to the state to use their knowledge to helpothers. She will later meet with battery technology leaders, possibly to talk about powering a Qld outback town with batteries.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|vox pops













Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has hinted that the Government could give ...18 Jun 2015 6:33 PMChannel 7, Brisbane, Seven News, Sharyn Ghidella and Bill McDonald


Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has hinted that the Government could give Queenslanders working overseas financialincentives to come home. She spent the day seeing what it's like for former residents working for Facebook in San Francisco.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland Premier|vox pops



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Premier pushes renewables, IT and movie industry in California (AUDIO AVAILABLE)19 Jun 2015 2:40 PMQueensland Government

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Palaszczuk hopes to turn ideas into reality20 Jun 2015Courier Mail, Brisbane, General News, Steven Wardill

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ANNASTACIA Palaszczuk will today return to Queensland determined to turn ideas gleaned from her US trade trip into reality.The Queensland Prem ier's nine-day sojourn wound up yesterday in Los Angeles after meetings with major movie houses andtest driv ing an electric car.View original - Full text: 267 word(s), ~1 min

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CODE FOR SMART21 Jun 2015Sunday Mail Brisbane, Brisbane, General News, Steven Wardill

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QLD:US navy may support Qld biofuels: premier

BRISBANE, June 13 AAP - Queensland's biofuels industry could be supported by the US navy'sgrowing appetite for renewable energy, the premier says. Annastacia Palaszczuk, who is on her first trade mission as premier to the United States, met with seniornavy officials at the Pentagon to discuss potential biofuel opportunities for Queensland. "If we can lock down this partnership, we can unlock the opportunities to Queensland this will bring," MsPalaszczuk said. AAP jmk/mm

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Premier’s trip may see city’s ship come inPREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk described her trip to the United States this week as a trade mission to drum up business for Queensland.

Indeed, there are few businesses in the world as big as the US military.

It emerged yesterday that Ms Palaszczuk will meet defence officials in the Pentagon to push for Townsville to supply biofuels to the so-called Great Green Fleet, opening the door for the city to become a major fuelling port.

The Green Fleet is an initiative of the US Navy involving ships running on biofuels instead of conventional fuels.

Ms Palaszczuk will present the case that Townsville is ideally placed to service the fleet. Any commitment by the US Navy to refuel in Townsville would be watched closely by the North Queensland Bio-Energy Corporation, which is well advanced on developing a $520 million sugar mill at Ingham capable of producing up to 200,000 litres of ethanol per day.

The prospect of regular visits from US Navyships would also be a welcome boost to the Townsville economy.

US sailors are known for spending up big during shore leave, but the city has been starved of visits in recent years.

The last major visit was the USS Chosin in late 2013.

C’mon Premier, give it your best pitch.

Man up, that’s an Enders to itMARK Enders should take his disqualification from Labor’s preselection battle for the Federal seat of Herbert “like a man” instead of blaming others for his political implosion.

Mr Enders took to the Townsville ALP blogto attack the Bulletin for its reporting of his claim that he had a better chance of unseating the LNP’s Ewen Jones because he was a man.

“The Bulletin took the hysterical, sensationalist and hypocritical low road in its reportage,” he wrote.

Only problem is that Mr Enders had alreadysent a personal message to the journalist after the article’s publication, thanking him for his “integrity” and “not doing a hatchet job on me”.

It seems Mr Enders is a little confused withhis message. That is probably why he was dumped from preselection.

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Trade trips can leave lasting benefits for years to come

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IT WASN’T that long agostate trade trips were being written off as littlemore than junkets forself-important provincial

politicians.States packed up their

international outposts, deeming them an unnecessary expense when the federal government could fill the void.

Peter Beattie, wisely, resisted temptation to follow suit and save a few million dollars annually.

He kept the state’s trade commissioners in growth

meccas such as China and India and expanded the network into new terrain as he beat the “Smart State” mantra and need to diversify Queensland’s economy.

And today a vast array of Queensland business with global ambitions is better off because of this decision.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk jetted out for her first trade-trip this week, bound for Washington, Boston and Philadelphia on a week-long mission to drum up US business for the state. In tow was a delegation from business, academia and the

science community.It would be easy to write off

the Premier’s trip as a taxpayer-funded reward for

Labor’s extraordinary election victory in January and easy to imagine that, between a few business meetings, it’s going to be all about touring Washington’s famous landmarks, munching corn dogs at Fenway Park and posing

for a “Rocky” selfie at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art. But done rightly, trade trips such as Palaszczuk’s can have an afterlife that reverberates

for many years, creatinglinks, sealing contractsand generating wealthand jobs that flow tothe state.

The oldargument is thatbusinesses cando these dealsthemselves.Politicians arejust there forthe pictureopportunityand sweetrelief fromthe day-to-day rigoursof runningthe states.There are

many examples of this over the years, for sure.

But we need to rememberthat Queensland is a far-flung dominion, an outpost with

unknown potential in many corners of the world.

If the state’s leaders are notgoing to spruik this message who will?

International businesses looking to invest in

Queensland need to be assured their potential trading partner has the local administration’s ear.

It’s easy to forget that sovereign risk occurs not just under despot regimes but in functioning democracies where the whims of political leaders can quickly imperil investment.

They need assurances thatproposals are not going to be bogged down in bureaucracy. They also need to know regulations and tax conditions are not going to suddenly change in a way that adds unimagined dangers to the risk they are already taking trading with a partner where the tyranny of distance is already an issue.

Along with Beattie, formerpremier Anna Bligh knew this also. On Bligh’s first trade trip

in 2008, she ventured to the Indian headquarters of global energy behemoth British Gas and was there when a deal was signed with new upstart company, Queensland Gas.

Now the state’s Budget is moving into a phase where it will be heavily reliant on the royalty income from that and other like agreements, particularly given the cash cowof coal has gone missing in the top paddock.

The state’s rising jobless rate has created a sense of

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Queensland isa far-flung

dominion, an outpost with

unknown potential

urgency to find the next big industry.

Without trade trips like Palaszczuk’s, Queensland is left with little more than a fingers-crossed approach for our future.

Steven Wardill is The Courier-Mail’s state political editor

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QLD:Qld scientists examine global diseases

The development of an anti-Hendra virus treatment by Queensland researchers has opened the doorfor them to work on other global diseases with US colleagues. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk today met with researcher Dr Dimiter Dimitrov from the NationalInstitutes of Health during her US trade mission to discuss an ongoing relationship with Queenslandscientists. Dr Dimitrov was a co-developer of the monoclonal antibody for Hendra virus, launched in April, whichhas been approved for human trials in Queensland. The work of Queensland scientists in further progressing the treatment fuelled discussions about otheremerging diseases, including Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). The virus has caused seven deaths in South Korea and seen 1800 schools shut and more than 2500people quarantined. AAP RTV

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US NAVY POLICY: BIOFUELS PRODUCED HEREWOULD BE GREENEST

C ld f l flCane could fuel fleetP i M k US N PPremier suggests Mackay to US Navy at PentagonEmily [email protected]

BIOFUELS made fromMackay sugar cane wouldbe among the world’s mostenvironmentally friendly.The fact is worth consi-dering following PremierAnnastacia Palaszczuk’sdiscussions with the USNavy at the Pentagon.Ms Palaszczuk namedMackay, along with Glad-stone, as a potential loca-tion for a biofuel productionplant when she discussedQueensland’s potential tosupport the US Navy’srenewable energy policy onFriday.“The US Navy has set agoal of meeting half itsenergy needs from alterna-tive sources by 2020, whichopens up opportunities forbiofuels suppliers at portsaround the world,” she said.“There is potential forregional Queensland, espe-cially Mackay and Glad-stone.”A spokesperson for thePremier’s office said it wasMackay’s sugarcane bypro-ducts that made it an at-tractive option.“Sugarcane could oneday be powering US navy

ships,” he said.“It’s part of the US GreatGreen Fleet Initiative; theyare looking for suppliers allaround the world.”Mackay Sugar chairmanAndrew Cappello said anybiofuels produced in Mack-ay would be among theworld’s greenest becausethe cogeneration plant,which made electricity fromsugar cane byproduct,

could power the process.“That means if we pro-duced fuel here it wouldhave a positive carbonfootprint,” Mr Cappellosaid.“We would be using agreen energy to produce agreen fuel,” he said.“It’s counterproductive to

use coal to produce bio-fuels.”He said he was interested

in the possibility of abiofuels production plant inMackay but had otherpriorities at the moment.Canegrowers MackayChairman Kevin Borgsaid the move wouldrequire more cane to beproduced.“To produce ethanol, wewould probably grow diffe-rent varieties of cane,” MrBorg said.

STILL INTERESTED: US Navy director of operational energy Chris Tindal (second from right)tours Mackay Sugar’s Racecourse Mill biofuel plant in February 2012. The US Navy is stillinterested in the concept. PHOTO: PETER HOLT

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YOUR STATEQUEENSLAND

Hendra success opensdoor to collaborationThe development of an anti-Hendra virus treatment by Queensland researchers hasopened the door for them towork on other global diseases with US colleagues. PremierAnnastacia Palaszczuk yesterdaymet researcher DimiterDimitrov of the National Institutes of Health during herUS trade mission and discussed other collaboration opportunities. Dr Dimitrov was aco-developer of the antibody forHendra virus, which has been approved for human trials.

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US NAVY POLICY: BIOFUELS PRODUCED HEREWOULD BE GREENEST

C ld f l flCane could fuel fleetP i M k US N PPremier suggests Mackay to US Navy at PentagonEmily [email protected]

BIOFUELS made fromMackay sugar cane wouldbe among the world’s mostenvironmentally friendly.The fact is worth consi-dering following PremierAnnastacia Palaszczuk’sdiscussions with the USNavy at the Pentagon.Ms Palaszczuk namedMackay, along with Glad-stone, as a potential loca-tion for a biofuel productionplant when she discussedQueensland’s potential tosupport the US Navy’srenewable energy policy onFriday.“The US Navy has set agoal of meeting half itsenergy needs from alterna-tive sources by 2020, whichopens up opportunities forbiofuels suppliers at portsaround the world,” she said.“There is potential forregional Queensland, espe-cially Mackay and Glad-stone.”A spokesperson for thePremier’s office said it wasMackay’s sugarcane bypro-ducts that made it an at-tractive option.“Sugarcane could oneday be powering US navy

ships,” he said.“It’s part of the US GreatGreen Fleet Initiative; theyare looking for suppliers allaround the world.”Mackay Sugar chairmanAndrew Cappello said anybiofuels produced in Mack-ay would be among theworld’s greenest becausethe cogeneration plant,which made electricity fromsugar cane byproduct,

could power the process.“That means if we pro-duced fuel here it wouldhave a positive carbonfootprint,” Mr Cappellosaid.“We would be using agreen energy to produce agreen fuel,” he said.“It’s counterproductive to

use coal to produce bio-fuels.”He said he was interested

in the possibility of abiofuels production plant inMackay but had otherpriorities at the moment.Canegrowers MackayChairman Kevin Borgsaid the move wouldrequire more cane to beproduced.“To produce ethanol, wewould probably grow diffe-rent varieties of cane,” MrBorg said.

STILL INTERESTED: US Navy director of operational energy Chris Tindal (second from right)tours Mackay Sugar’s Racecourse Mill biofuel plant in February 2012. The US Navy is stillinterested in the concept. PHOTO: PETER HOLT

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Trio of sites in running for biofuels plantMACKAY and Gladstonehave joined Townsville aspossible sites for a biofuels pro-duction plant as part of a StateGovernment plan to power theUS Navy’s eco-fleet.

Premier Annastacia Pal-aszczuk met senior US Navyofficials at the Pentagon onSaturday to lobby for Queens-land to supply fuel for its GreetGreen Fleet.

The meeting, part of a UStrade trip, discussed thenavy’s renewable energy pol-icy and how Queenslandcould be involved.

Ms Palaszczuk said theState wanted to tap into the ex-pertise from universities re-garding biofuels.

VICTORIA NUGENT

“We need to look at wherewe can put in place a pro-duction plant,” she said.

“Initially it could either bein Mackay or Gladstone, butwe also know we have Towns-ville there, a ready port whichwould be able to use the fuelsfor the US Navy.”

The Great Green Fleet willembark on a Pacific tour in2016 as part of its planned ac-tivities to trial biofuels, withQueensland being a potentialdestination.

Port of Townsville chiefexecutive Ranee Crosby saidwhile it was early days, it wasgreat that Ms Palaszczuk waschampioning Queensland andTownsville.

“We’ve got a port that’sready and capable,” she said.

Ms Crosby said the portwould love to host the fleetduring next year’s Pacific tour.

“It would just be brilliant forthe city,” she said.

“They’ve got priority accessto Berth 10 if they’re willing tocome.”

Townsville MP Scott Stew-art said he would support theproject and a visit during thePacific tour.

“If we can pull this off anddevelop the biofuels, it will be agreat shot in the arm for the

economy, not just for Towns-ville but for North Queens-land,” he said.

The plan could also meanopportunities for James CookUniversity researchers, with aUS naval delegation havingvisited the university in 2012 toinspect bioenergy projects.

The push comes as the StateGovernment commits up to $1million to identify new agri-business prospects and theirwater needs in the LowerBurdekin.

Minister for State Develop-ment Dr Anthony Lynhamsaid the Lower BurdekinCatchment Development Pro-ject would identify future de-velopment options and whatneeded to happen with waterresources to support growth.

FUEL OF HOPE

TONY IRELAND CELEBRATES 30 YEARS I

TOWNSVILLE could become a US Navy fuelling port under a pitch to use North Queensland biofuels to powerenvironmentally friendly ships. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will meet with Pentagon staff today about providing biofuel for the US Navy’s carrier strike group, dubbed the Great Green Fleet, tipped to deploy next year. The force is part of the US Navy’s push to power half of its fleet by alternative fuels by 2020.

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Scientistswork onhendraantibody

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QUEENSLAND scientistsworking on an anti-hendravirus treatmentare indiscus-sions with top American re-searchers about developingan antibody against thegrowing global threat ofemerging diseases.Gympie will host a hendrainformation night at The Pa-vilion on June 23, featuringvet nurse and hendra survi-vor Natalie Beohm and Gym-pie horse vet Justin Schooth.In Washington DC yester-day, QueenslandPremierAn-nastacia Palaszczuk met

with researcher Dr DimiterS.Dimitrov from theNationalInstitutes of Health who,along with Professor ChrisBroder, were co-developersof the anti-hendra monoclo-nal antibody.

“Following the successfulworld-class research and de-velopment they did on thehendra monoclonal antibody,Queensland researchers areset to focus on other emerg-ing diseases, potentially in-cluding Middle-East Respira-tory Syndrome,” Ms

Palaszczuk said.“TheUniversity of Queens-land’s Australian Institutefor Bioengineering and Na-notechnology, under directorProfessor Peter Gray, hasbeen asked to lead the pro-ject.“MERS and other emerg-ing diseases pose a seriousglobal threat, which is why acollaborative effort fromsome of the world's best re-searchers is urgently need-ed.”Professor Gray and histeam worked with US col-leagues in the developmentof the world-first anti-hendramonoclonal antibody, whichwas approved for humantrials in April this year. Thetrials are running in Bris-bane with Dr Geoffrey Play-ford as the lead investigator.“Wewould be delighted forthis work to come to Queens-land, further enhancing ourreputation of becoming acentre of biotechnology ex-cellence,” Ms Palaszczuksaid.

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successfulworld-classresearch anddevelopment theydid on the hendramonoclonalantibody,Queenslandresearchers areset to focus onother emergingdiseases...– Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk

Annastacia Palaszczuk

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YOUR STATEQUEENSLAND

Green light raiseshopes for cancer drugsNew cancer drugs could soon betrialled in Queensland after one of the state’s research facilities received the green light to produce cellular therapies. TheTherapeutic GoodsAdministration has grantedQIMR Berghofer’smanufacturing facility, Q-Gen, regulatory approval to producenew cancer drugs. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, in the US on a trade mission, said thefacility was now a world leader inthe fight against cancer.

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YESWE ‘CANE’Gladstone is onthe shortlist foran ethanol plantto supply theUS Navy.

The move couldcreate jobs forGladstone whilebringing cheapfuel to the state.The proposal

comes as part ofthe Premier’strade tour inthe US andfollows thegovernment’scommitment todevelop biofueltechnology.

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Plan forbiofuelfactoryCity named a top site for plantHelen [email protected]

GLADSTONE has beennamed one of three possiblesites for a biofuel productionplant.The plan follows Premier

Annastacia Palaszczuk’s firsttrade mission to the US.While on tour this week,

the Premier began negotia-tions with Navy officials tosupplyUS shipswith biofuel –namely ethanol – produced inQueensland.Mackay, Gladstone and

Townsville were named pos-sible sites for the plant if adeal is secured with thePentagon.MP Glenn Butcher said

Gladstone was in the box seatfor the plant given the size ofits port and available land.“They’re looking for big,

deep water ports,” Mr Butch-er said.“And if they are looking to

build an ethanol plant we’vegot that land (the GladstoneState Development Area) sit-ting right here in our back-yard.”Mr Butcher said he had not

yet seenany formal documen-tation of the project.The proposal follows a mo-

tion calling for an ethanolmandate on all fuel, whichwon bi-partisan support inthe Queensland Parliamentlast month.The plan is to mix ethanol

with all grades of fuel soldacross the state, however theethanol-to-fuel percentagehas not yet been decided.Themotionwas introduced

by LNP’s Andrew Powell,member for Glass House.Two out of Australia’s

three ethanol plants are inQueensland – at Dalby andSarina (35km south of Mack-ay – and have a combined ca-pacity to produce 140 megalitres of ethanol each year.But a 5% ethanol mandate

on fuel is predicted to createdemand for 200 mega litresper year.Mr Powell said expansions

at existing facilities may copewith increased demand buthigher mandates would “re-quire further industry deve-lopment”.

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Palaszczukhopes toturn ideas into realitySTEVEN WARDILL

will today return to Queens-land determined to turn ideasgleaned from her US tradetrip into reality.

The Queensland Prem-ier’s nine-day sojourn woundup yesterday in Los Angelesafter meetings with majormovie houses and test driv-ing an electric car.

Ms Palaszczuk last nighttold The Courier-Mail the trip,which also included Washing-ton, Boston and the annualbiotechnology conference inPhiladelphia, would not be for-gotten. “Over the next fewmonths I will be looking atways we can take the learningsI have got from here and runwith them,’’ she said.

Preparing Queensland forthe influx of electric vehicles,pushing the state’s biotechnol-ogy industry towards commer-cialisation and a program forsending talented people over-seas to learn skills in emergingindustry are among the ideasMs Palaszczuk will pursue.

Ms Palaszczuk also met yes-terday with representatives ofLegendary, the makers of Jur-assic World, and Marvel.

She said they were im-pressed with Queensland as amovie-making destination,with its array of locations andexperienced workers.

“It is about opportunities forQueensland to have an on-going industry on the GoldCoast, not just sporadic, one-off films,’’ Ms Palaszczuk said.

She also toured the factoryof Tesla Motors, a companyfounded by PayPal billionaire

Elon Musk, which has startedselling electric vehicles andbatteries to store solar powerat home. “A lot of peoplewould have thought electricvehicles were years away. Butthe factory is up and runningand it is state-of-the-art.”

She said trade trips had bi-partisan support and her Gov-ernment would undertakemore aimed at bringing invest-ment and jobs to the state.

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CODE FOR SMARTPremier keen on innovation evolution in schoolsSTEVEN WARDILL

SCHOOL kids could be taughtcomputer coding in the class-room under Annastacia Pal-aszczuk’s push to makeQueensland the “smarterstate”.

Returning from her US tradetrip yesterday, the QueenslandPremier said the clear messageshe had received was that theinnovation evolution had tostart in the classroom.

Ms Palaszczuk met with of-ficials from international on-

line behemoths, includingFacebook and GE, as well asglobal electric car and batteryleader Tesla.

She told The Sunday Mailthat diversifying the Queens-land economy could not be leftto industry and the right train-ing for the jobs of the futureneeded to start early.

“Nearly everywhere I wentpeople were saying that ifQueensland wants to be an ex-

pert in IT and innovation thenyou have to start in theschools,’’ she said.

Ms Palaszczuk said thatmust involve computer skillsfrom an early age through tocoding classes being madeavailable to students eager tobreak into IT.

Federal Labor Leader BillShorten has also spoken of theneed to teach coding in class-rooms and promised a program

to upskill existing teachers toprovide the training.

IT industry leaders havebeen advocating for Australiato follow the lead set by Europewhere science, technology, en-gineering and mathematics, socalled STEM skills, are beingtaught in kindy classes.

The Premier also invitedTesla’s Elon Musk, who found-ed PayPal, to Queensland forfurther discussions about the

state’s solar potential and tospeak at the World ScienceFestival, which will be hostedin Brisbane for the next sixyears.

“I’m very excited about thepotential for future investmentin Queensland coming out ofAmerica,” she said.

“Tesla is a perfect fit forQueensland given their appe-tite for innovation in renew-able energy, especially solar.”

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The US navy could help create a thriving biofuels industry in regional Queensland, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says.

Ms Palaszczuk visited the Pentagon in Washington DC as part of her first trade mission as premier to the US, where she met the navy's top brass.

A renewable energy policy has set a goal for half the navy's energy needs to be met from alternative sources by 2020.

The premier says that opens up opportunities for regional Queensland.

"We saw the boom of the LNG industry - this has the potential to be our next growth industry," she said on Saturday.

"We know the technology is there, we know we have the people already working in this field, what we now need to do is seek out those industry partners."

Ms Palaszczuk said the talks were in their early stages and the state needed to decide where it would place production plants.

"Initially, it could be in Mackay or Gladstone," she said.

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Trio of sites in running for biofuels plant • by: VICTORIA NUGENT • From: Townsville Bulletin • June 15, 2015 12:00AM

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is lobbying US Navy officials for Queensland to supply fuel for its Great Green Fleet. Source: News Corp Australia

MACKAY and Gladstone have joined Townsville as possible sites for a biofuels production plant as part of a State Government plan to power the US Navy’s eco-fleet.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk met senior US Navy officials at the Pentagon on Saturday to lobby for Queensland to supply fuel for its Greet Green Fleet.

The meeting, part of a US trade trip, discussed the navy’s renewable energy policy and how Queensland could be involved.

Ms Palaszczuk said the State wanted to tap into the expertise from universities regarding biofuels.

“We need to look at where we can put in place a production plant,” she said.

“Initially it could either be in Mackay or Gladstone, but we also know we have Townsville there, a ready port which would be able to use the fuels for the US Navy.”7

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The Great Green Fleet will embark on a Pacific tour in 2016 as part of its planned activities to trial biofuels, with Queensland being a potential destination.

Port of Townsville chief executive Ranee Crosby said while it was early days, it was great that Ms Palaszczuk was championing Queensland and Townsville.

“We’ve got a port that’s ready and capable,” she said.

Ms Crosby said the port would love to host the fleet during next year’s Pacific tour.

“It would just be brilliant for the city,” she said.

“They’ve got priority access to Berth 10 if they’re willing to come.”

Townsville MP Scott Stewart said he would support the project and a visit during the Pacific tour.

“If we can pull this off and develop the biofuels, it will be a great shot in the arm for the economy, not just for Townsville but for North Queensland,” he said.

The plan could also mean opportunities for James Cook University researchers, with a US naval delegation having visited the university in 2012 to inspect bioenergy projects.

The push comes as the State Government commits up to $1 million to identify new agribusiness prospects and their water needs in the Lower Burdekin.

Minister for State Development Dr Anthony Lynham said the Lower Burdekin Catchment Development Project would identify future development options and what needed to happen with water resources to support growth.

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THE Queensland Government will spend $360,000 on a three-year research partnership with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the money would help support Queenslanders undertaking research at the Institute.

The Smithsonian will host the researchers while the Queensland Government will pay $5000 worth of airfares and $1250 per week living costs for researchers completing three to four-month study tours.

The 2016 round of the fellowship program will open shortly and only Queensland school teachers and researchers can apply.

Brisbane's Dawn Boland and Beenleigh's Silas Middleton received the 2015 grants. - APN NEWSDESK

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US navy could create thriving biofuel hub in Queensland, Palaszczuk says Queensland premier visits Pentagon in trade mission to US and says navy’s goal to shift to renewable energy could aid industry at home

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The US navy could help create a thriving biofuels industry in regional Queensland, the state’s premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, says.

Palaszczuk visited the Pentagon in Washington DC as part of her first trade mission as premier, where she met the navy’s top brass.

A renewable energy policy has set a goal for half the navy’s energy needs to be met from alternative sources by 2020.


“We saw the boom of the LNG industry – this [biofuel] has the potential to be our next growth industry,” she said on Saturday. “We know the technology is there, we know we have the people already working in this field, what we now need to do is seek out those industry partners.”

Palaszczuk said the talks were in their early stages and the state needed to decide where it would place production plants.

“Initially, it could be in Mackay or Gladstone,” she said. “But we also know we have Townsville there – a ready port which would be able to utilise the fuels for the US navy.”

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Mackay sugar cane could power US Navy shipsEmily Smith | 13th Jun 2015 11:38 AM

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MACKAY has been named as a potential location for a biofuel production plant to supply the US Navy.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement following a meeting with senior US Navy officials at the Pentagon in Washington yesterday, as part of the US Navy's renewable energy policy and its potential for supporting a biofuels industry in Queensland.

"The US Navy has set a goal of meeting half its energy needs from alternative sources by 2020, which opens up opportunities for biofuels suppliers at ports around the world," Ms Palaszczuk said.

"Queensland has the potential to play a big role in meeting those needs.

"There is potential for regional Queensland, especially Mackay and Gladstone."

A spokesperson from the Premier's office said it was Mackay's abundance of sugarcane by-products that made it an attractive option.

"Sugarcane could one day be powering US navy ships," he said.

"It's part of the US Great Green Fleet Initiative, they are looking for suppliers all around the world.

"Gladstone was probably also mentioned because of it's port."

Ms Palaszczuk named biofuels as the next big industry for Queensland.

"A Deloitte Access Economics/QUT study predicts bio-refining in all its forms could contribute $1.8m in gross state product to Queensland over 20 years and support more than 6,600 jobs over the next 20 years," she said.

Mackay might one day produce biofuels for US navy ships.

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THE US navy could help create a thriving biofuels industry in regional Queensland, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says.

MS Palaszczuk visited the Pentagon in Washington DC as part of her first trade mission as premier to the US, where she met the navy's top brass.

A renewable energy policy has set a goal for half the navy's energy needs to be met from alternative sources by 2020.


"We saw the boom of the LNG industry - this has the potential to be our next growth industry," she said on Saturday.

"We know the technology is there, we know we have the people already working in this field, what we now need to do is seek out those industry partners."

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Ms Palaszczuk said the talks were in their early stages and the state needed to decide where it would place production plants.

"Initially, it could be in Mackay or Gladstone," she said.

"But we also know we have Townsville there - a ready port which would be able to utilise the fuels for the US navy."

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Annastacia Palaszczuk offers US Navy help for renewable energy targetsAmy Remeikis Published: June 13, 2015 - 10:13AM

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's United States trade mission has taken her to the Pentagon.

Ms Palaszczuk, who left for America on Thursday, met US Navy brass at the famed Washington building to discuss how Queensland can help the leader of the free world meet its renewable energy targets.

The world's largest Navy, which includes a fleet of more than 280 battle ships and 10 aircraft carriers, wants to have half its energy needs met by alternative fuel sources by 2020.

Ms Palaszczuk wants Queensland to be a part of helping the US meets that goal.

"If we can lock down this partnership, we can unlock the opportunities to Queensland this will bring," Ms Palaszczuk said in a statement.

"My Government is keen to work with industry and research organisations to maximise Queensland's potential when it comes to biofuels and bio-manufacturing industries."

Both the Opposition and Labor have indicated a willingness to expand the state's biofuel industry, including plans for an ethanol mandate in fuel, which coincidentally is a key commitment needed to secure the Katter Party support in the state's hung parliament.

But with the mining and resources boom subsiding Ms Palaszczuk said it also opens doors to creating a new industry for the state.

The Premier has already flagged research and development of new industries playing a starring role in next month's budget and while no plan has been released, has also made a commitment to exploring renewable energies, including expanding the state's solar industry.

After leaving Washington, Ms Palaszczuk will travel to Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles.

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