Date Time A bright future for Australian energy, technology and expertise In the second of our series of opinion pieces from Science meets Parliament sponsors, Professor Paul Mulvaney, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, discusses how to extend Australia’s renewable energy generation capability, create jobs and deliver better results for businesses and energy consumers. ‘Our land abounds with nature’s gifts, of beauty rich and rare’. As we progress further into an exciting but uncertain 21 st century, those words ring more truly now than ever before. Australia unquestionably remains the lucky country. In particular, we are blessed with an abundance of the most powerful resource available anywhere on the planet – sunlight.