‘Between minnow and whale’: Australia must crack biotech code


New Labor Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah has urged federal parliament to lift its focus on solving the “mystery of the missing middle” holding back Australia’s world-class biotech sector.

In her first speech as a senator, the clinician-researcher and physician in infectious diseases founder-turned-politician said the world-class industry is one of the best chances of building a new knowledge economy “almost overnight”.

But she said that despite the country’s research prowess and …

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