Tony Abbott learnt last night not to ask a room full of experts if hes doing a good job #pmprize #respectresearch gu/p/42q2z Tony Abbott received a frosty response from scientists after he called on them to lobby Labor and Greens MPs to support the government’s plan for a medical research fund. Abbott, speaking at the prime minister’s science awards in Canberra on Wednesday night, reiterated a message from his speech at last year’s awards when he said the government should be judged “not by its titles but by its performance”. “I hope our performance has at least passed muster over the past 12 months,” the prime minister said, to a smattering of applause at the Parliament House awards ceremony. “That was desultory applause, but at least it was some,” Abbott said, in response to the tepid response from the assembled scientists theguardian/australia-news/2014/oct/30/scientists-tony-abbott-record-lukewarm-reception
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