Commitments to deepen relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in STEM and elevate the profile of First Nations’ STEM expertise are at the heart of Science & Technology Australia’s new Reconciliation Action Plan launched today.
Are you thriving in your STEM career – or not? If you’ve ever thought about leaving the sector, why was that – and what made you stay? Has your career in STEM been planned – or largely improvised?
A series of strategic investments in frontier technologies, quality science advice, and growing new science-driven businesses in advanced manufacturing are welcome initiatives in tonight’s Budget.
Science & Technology Australia welcomes the first National Quantum Strategy as an essential roadmap to maximise Australia’s opportunity with these economy-boosting technologies which will power the country’s future.
Science & Technology Australia thanks Karen Andrews MP for her powerful contributions to the science and technology sector as a long-serving Cabinet Minister and Shadow Minister.
The Review of the Australian Research Council Act released today is a “comprehensive, thoughtful blueprint for modernisation” of the key grants funding agency, the peak body for science and technology has said.
Australia should set itself a bold ambition to change our cultural relationship with science – and put it at the very heart of our national self-image, Science & Technology Australia has urged.
The Universities Accord should make “a once-in-a-generation investment in Australia itself” – dramatically ramping up our national investment in R&D and training a larger STEM-skilled workforce to generate new sources of economic wealth in the pivotal decade ahead.
The nation’s peak body representing 115,000 Australian scientists and technologists welcomes Australia’s National Reconstruction Fund as a powerful new investment in the country’s future.
Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic’s speech at the National Press Club as part of Science Meets Parliament 2023.
SparkLabs Cultiv8 and Science & Technology Australia are excited to collaborate to launch a new clean-tech competition in food and agriculture.
Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic prepared the following speech for Science Meets Parliament 2023.
Shadow Minister for Science gave the following address to Science Meets Parliament 2023.
Science & Technology Australia congratulates nine brilliant and diverse emerging STEM leaders on winning prestigious scholarships for Science Meets Parliament 2023.
The nation’s peak body representing 115,000 Australian scientists and technologists strongly supports an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and will advocate for a resounding yes vote in the upcoming referendum.
Creating a visionary Science Future Fund that could generate economic returns of up to $2.3 billion a year would help offset mounting social services spending pressures on the nation’s finances and start to reverse Australia’s dangerously low investment in income-generating R&D.
For Science Meets Parliament 2023, nine scholarship recipients will be able to access a full program of career-defining professional development training at no cost. Science Meets Parliament is Australia’s most significant event for deep engagement between the science and technology community and policymakers.
Campus Plus, Science & Technology Australia, and Cruxes Innovation are delighted to have been chosen to deliver the new National Industry PhD program for the Department of Education. The program will powerfully connect industry with PhD scholars and the research sector. It will create transformative opportunities for industry professionals to do a career-enhancing PhD, and for PhD scholars to do industry-focused research and training as part of their PhD.
Meet the stellar global scientist whose perseverance gave the world mRNA technology, saving countless lives in the COVID-19 pandemic. Science & Technology Australia is delighted to announce Adjunct Professor Katalin Karikó will headline Science Meets Parliament 2023.
Australia should seize the moment to become a global battery manufacturer to power the next wave of renewable energy development, the Parliamentary Friends of Science heard last night.
A visionary “connector of commercialisation” and research rockstar Professor Sharath Sriram is Science & Technology Australia’s new President-elect.
Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic MP gave the following speech on Friday 18 November 2022 to announce the 2023 Superstars of STEM.
Australia’s new Superstars of STEM – 60 diverse brilliant scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians – will be officially announced today by the Minister for Science.
New measures to support Australia’s strategic science capabilities in the Federal Budget are a smart investment to transform our economy
The NHMRC move to greater gender equity in its leadership grants program is powerful global leadership to shift the dial on gender equity.
Now open for applications: The STA STEM Ambassadors program pairs science and technology experts with their local Federal MP or Senator.
The pipeline of women in STEM degrees has grown strongly, however women remain vastly under-represented at the top levels of Australia’s STEM workforce
STA CEO Misha Schubert spoke with David Koch on The Startup Daily about the Government’s diversity in STEM review.
Australia’s leading voice for scientists and technologists welcomes the Australian Government’s announcement of a review to drive stronger gains on diversity in the sector and its workforce.
Turning Australian into a Global STEM Superpower doesn’t have to cost us the world. Here are five fixes for the Jobs Summit that will put the country on the right path.
Training the first generation of bench-to-boardroom scientists would create a seismic shift and levelling up of the economy.
Science & Technology Australia welcomes the appointment of STA President Professor Mark Hutchinson to a panel of three eminent Australians reviewing the Australian Research Council’s role and function.
Australia can choose to supercharge our science and technology strengths and generate a $52 billion windfall for our economy – or consign ourselves to a future with our fate in the hands of others.
Australia’s climate change legislation should be passed with added commitment to ‘name and fame’ sectors leading the charge, STA has urged.
Shadow Science Minister Paul Fletcher MP’s speech at the launch of National Science Week at Parliament House on Thursday 4 August.
STA member organisations will be taking part in National Science Week – get along to these brilliant events to enjoy a celebration of science.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles gave the following speech to launch National Science Week at Parliament House on Thursday 4 August.
Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic gave the following speech to launch National Science Week at Parliament House on Thursday 4 August.
Australians overwhelmingly trust in science and scientists – and we strongly fear negative consequences for our society if people don’t value science enough, new research finds.
STA is delighted to announce the appointments of impressive science and research leaders to its sector-leading STEM Sector Policy Committee and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
