Message from the Premier
Seeds of promise are being sown in Queensland.
The Smart State’s best and brightest are developing solutions to some of the biggest problems facing the world today.
Our scientists are answering the global need for renewable energies by turning the humble algae into climate friendly bio-diesel. They are also fighting world hunger by developing hardy, extreme climate resistant crops.
It is essential that we do what we can to fight climate change, but we must also minimise the effects of global warming that are already on our doorstep.
Queensland’s latest Smart State Fellow Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is working hard to save the world’s coral reefs and the men and women at the Australian Tropical Herbarium are tackling the challenges facing our precious wetlands.
Not content with just saving the world, our scientists are working on a cure for Parkinson’s disease and a Queensland company has just developed a drug delivery system that targets cancer while leaving healthy tissue untouched.
The big issues – climate change, world hunger, human disease – are all being targeted today by Smart State solutions.
Anna Bligh MP
Premier of Queensland
www.thepremier.qld.gov.au
Last reviewed 17 July 2008
