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SCIENCE POLICY

• Media releases
• Reports and submissions
• National Committees
• Nanotechnology Benchmarking Project
• Strategic Plan: 2005–2009

• Climate change
• Creationism and intelligent design
• Ethics
• Gene technology and GM plants
• Preserving the records of modern science
• Stem cells and human cloning

Good government requires accurate, authoritative and balanced information as the basis for decision making.

As an independent body of Australia's leading research scientists, the Academy can bring together experts from universities, industry and government to consider and report on scientific issues.

The Academy supports 20 National Committees. Each Committee, widely representative of its discipline, fosters a designated field of science, and serves as a link between Australian and overseas scientists in that field. The Committees are frequently called on to comment on proposals and advise on science policy.

Through the National Committees and ad hoc committees, the Academy prepares reports, submissions and public statements.