Welcome certainty for health and medical research

NHMRS

The launch of the National Health and Medical Research Strategy (NHMRS) is a welcome step towards providing certainty for the research and development industry in a critical portfolio. The NHMRS comes two months after the release of the Ambitious Australia report, which provided a blueprint for the future of Australia’s broader research development and innovation […]

CSIRO job cuts statement

CSIRO

The following statement can be attributed to Science & Technology Australia CEO Ryan Winn. “Today’s job cuts to CSIRO’s Environment Research Unit, including critical climate modelling staff, are a very worrying development but, sadly they were expected. New funding for CSIRO announced in the Federal Budget was never going to save these jobs. It will […]

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