Beset by global mega-trends and a financial time bomb, the CSIRO has made difficult but unavoidable choices, clearing a path for a new strategic direction, chief executive Doug Hilton...
The CSIRO will merge its digital and manufacturing research units after shedding more than 100 of the units’ staff amid immense financial pressures over the last two years. The...
CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton has rejected claims decades of funding cuts and a growing corporate focus had transformed the national science agency into “a consultancy business”, during a...
The CSIRO has presented the most detailed evidence yet of how dire its finances are, showing how successive governments have chosen not to fund its true costs for decades,...
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...
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...
Australia’s national science agency CSIRO will cut up to 500 staff from its enterprise services arm as part of restructure designed to reduce labour and operating costs by $100...
Science minister Ed Husic will not intervene to stop job cuts at the CSIRO that its union says will end more than 600 roles, harm the government’s industry and...
Researchers at the CSIRO’s Data61 business unit are bracing for job losses and research roll-backs as a funding crunch claims dozens of roles elsewhere at the agency and ends...
CSIRO has defended its use of global management consultants to guide a program “streamlining” organisational processes and systems around a new strategy, with the agency saying there is no...