The national science agency has confirmed it is “reshaping” its research portfolio to do “fewer things, better”, after the staff union warned hundreds of job will be cut later this year.
The looming job losses come despite a $45 million research resourcing boost this year and follow a brief stay on cuts to research roles last year, when the CSIRO was slashing hundreds of staff from enterprise services to meet an earlier funding crunch.
The CSIRO Staff Association on Thursday called on the Albanese government to step in to stop some of the agency’s biggest job cuts in a decade or risk undermining its own productivity and innovation agenda.
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