Facts over feelings: Australians join global march for science

Former science minister Barry Jones warns policy is increasingly divorced from evidence, as 12 Australian cities prepare for global marchBarry Jones, a Hawke government minister who held the science portfolio when the high court decided the Tasmanian dam case in 1983, despairs of an Australian government making the same decision in 2017.Instead of taking a principled opposition on the grounds of science, he said, the Labor party would probably do a photo opportunity pouring the concrete. Continu