Tag: CSIRO

NRF backs local smart meter technology with $100m loan

Posted on   |  by David Allen
A Sydney-based company developing smart meters and virtual power plant software will receive a $100 million loan from the National Reconstruction Fund, in its first debt investment targeting renewable...

Gig Guide: Defence on the hunt for new CISO

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The Department of Defence has begun searching for a new chief information security officer following the departure of long-serving tech mandarin Jonathan Dean. Mr Dean, who was appointed Defence...

‘Science is under siege’: Senate to probe CSIRO cuts

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

‘Aren’t you ashamed?’: Govt lashed on CSIRO cuts

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

Parliament, scientists demand CSIRO cuts explanation

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

CSIRO grounds missions model in research overhaul

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The national science agency will not launch any more large scale research missions and is folding current ones like ending plastic waste and achieving net zero into its regular...