Tag: CSIRO

‘Pathetic’ CSIRO inquiry ignores funding pleas

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A Senate inquiry into CSIRO resourcing has been branded “pathetic” after it acknowledged structural funding issues and risks to sovereign capability from recent job cuts, but stopped short of...

Former SA deputy premier appointed to CSIRO board

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Three senior scientists have been appointed to the boards of the national science and nuclear agencies as the federal government pushes ahead with the “reprioritisation and refocusing” of their...

Gig Guide: Home Affairs loses tech chief Kovacevic to Austrade

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The federal government’s trade investment agency has poached Home Affairs’ long-serving chief digital officer Radi Kovacevic, as the public service continues to grapple with the internal impact of artificial...

CSIRO builds world’s first proven quantum battery

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The world’s first proven quantum battery is alive and charging in a lab in Melbourne, and researchers at the national science agency are now seeking development partners for the...

Research and innovation has reached a tipping point

Posted on   |  by Roy Green
Amid global turmoil, the report of the Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD) calls for “bold reform” of Australia’s “broken” research and innovation system. What better time to prepare for...

‘At breaking point’: Research sector rallies around CSIRO

Posted on   |  by David Allen
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...

$3m upgrade for CSIRO’s energy integration lab

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The CSIRO’s energy transition research hub in Newcastle will tackle more cutting-edge projects like storing excess grid electricity in electric vehicle batteries following a $3 million laboratory upgrade that...