In his speech to Parliament tonight, Mr Shorten said a Labor government would introduce digital coding to the school curriculum and spend $25 million in training teachers in programming.
And to encourage more people to take on science, technology, engineering and maths degrees, Labor would forgo the student debt for 20,000 award degrees a year for five years.
It would also provide 25,000 teaching scholarships - worth $15,000 each - over five years to science graduates.
"Coding is the literacy of the 21st century and under Labor every young Australian will have a chance to read, write and work with the global language of the digital age," Mr Shorten said.
"A career in science does not just mean a lifetime in a lab coat, it means opening doors in every facet of our commercial life."
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