Tag: science

Scientists warn capability chasm threatens future generations

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A “collapsing pipeline” of skilled workers and a policy quagmire threatens Australia’s ability to meet intergenerational challenges like the ageing population and technological disruption, according to one of the...

No quick fix for our broken system of research funding

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is worth digging a little deeper into the important contribution that Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt and UNSW Scientia Professor of Economics Richard Holden made in their National Press...

Aussie scientists plot US ‘brain gain’ as a Trump dividend

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian scientists have hatched a plan to recruit and repatriate US-based counterparts fleeing President Trump’s multi-billion-dollar research purge with competitive relocation packages. The Australian Academy of Science on Thursday...

Labor pledges $100m boost to Perth science centre

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Science minister Ed Husic has dangled a $100 million upgrade to Perth’s largest science education centre if the Albanese government is re-elected, but says it will be up to...

WA douses plan for a state chief entrepreneur

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Western Australian government has hosed down popular calls for the appointment of a chief entrepreneur two months after a parliamentary inquiry recommended the move, saying it had already...

$68m in ARC Linkage grants flow to researchers

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Australian Research Council has awarded $68.1 million in the latest annual round of the Linkage Program to 92 new research projects. ARC acting chief executive Richard Johnson this...

CSIRO set to close only US-based office

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
CSIRO’s United States subsidiary will be shuttered later this year, according to the national science agency’s latest corporate plan, as the extent of its massive enterprise services restructure continues...