Federal Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash and Dr Ronika K. Power

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If you want to make a difference when it comes to gender equity, the gender pay gap and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research, taking it to the top is a good way to start.

Macquarie superstars of STEM, Professor Barbara Messerle, Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes, Professor Phil Taylor, Dr Sophie Calabretto, Professor Judith Dawes, Dr Shima Taheri, Dr Lindsay Parker, Luan Heimlich and Dr Ronika K. Power all took the opportunity to talk directly with our elected officials about the importance of their sectors and the contribution they can make to politics.

Dr Power sat down for talks with the Federal Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash and was delighted to discover Senator Cash shares her passion for all things Egypt, snapping the above photo in the Senator’s office with an invaluable pyramid artwork by Lorraine Jenyns from the Parliament House collection.

No doubt Dr Power’s role as Director of Macquarie’s partnership with the British Museum’s world premiere of the Egyptian Mummies exhibition last year at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum was a topic of great interest between the two.

They were joined in the high-level meeting by Kylie Walker, CEO of Science and Technology Australia, Darren Saunders from Medicine at UNSW and ANU astrophysicist Dr Elisabete da Cunha.