If $233m can’t save a single job, CSIRO is in trouble


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

Doug Hilton must be wondering why his predecessors didn’t stick a smelter at one of the CSIRO’s 45 sites. At least then he’d have a chance of squeezing some money out of the Albanese government.

At Senate Estimates on Thursday night, Dr Hilton laid out just how grim it is getting at the national science agency.

CSIRO sites are close to disrepair but still 23 per cent more expensive to …

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