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...
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A pioneering oceanographer has criticised CSIRO management’s lack of scientific experience and warned cuts to the agency’s environmental research will compound Australia’s climate crisis. Amid reports the CSIRO’s Environmental...
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Researchers at the national science agency have developed a more energy and temperature-efficient architecture for quantum computers using emergent tiny battery technology. The CSIRO on Monday published new research...
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More than 1,100 job cuts and plummeting funding at the CSIRO will be examined by a Senate inquiry over the summer as criticism mounts on the Albanese government’s refusal...
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Science minister Tim Ayres has defended the CSIRO’s move to cut up to 350 research jobs, telling Parliament it was a “necessary and important” change to the national science...
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Science minister Tim Ayres and the CSIRO will be asked to explain hundreds of redundancies at the science agency when Parliament returns next week, as the research sector rallies...
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The CSIRO will make hundreds of scientists redundant in the lead up to Christmas while “sharpening” its research structure, as the agency reckons with a budget cliff and decades...
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The CSIRO is planning further job cuts despite already slashing more than 800 in the last 18 months, its management has confirmed, as new modelling shows government funding has...
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CSIRO has opened a $90 million purpose-built research facility to store, digitise and protect the more than 13 million biological specimens that make up Australia’s national research collection. Named...
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CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton says a combination of poor productivity performance, the US’ retreat from science and alarming changes in geopolitical circumstances has brought Australia to a “fork...
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Australian governments should double down on facilitation programs that dollar match funding for small and medium firms to work with researchers, new CSIRO analysis of the program outcomes shows....
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CSIRO deputy chief executive Kirsten Rose is set to leave the national science agency after almost five years to join the energy market operator in her home state of...
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Experienced board director Ming Long has been appointed the new chair of national science agency CSIRO, replacing Kathryn Fagg, who has stepped down after more than three years. Ms...
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Fortescue on Tuesday took an equal top ownership stake in green hydrogen technology venture Sparc Hydrogen as it committed to pilot testing a novel production technique in Adelaide later...