Funding for innovation most likely to be cut in next budget, say opposition MPs

But Minister of State for Science and Technology Gary Goodyear says, 'No government in the history of this country has supported science, scientists and technology more than this Conservative government.'

With the government's commitment to slay the now estimated $27.4-billion budget deficit, opposition MPs say "there's no doubt" that funding for innovation will be cut in the upcoming March budget.

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