Science has largely flown under the radar in a restrained Federal Budget, with no big spending measures and no major cuts apart from previously-announced university funding changes, according to the Australian Academy of Science.
Professor Les Field, Secretary for Science Policy, said it is pleasing to see $26 million to support an astronomy partnership with the European Southern Observatory, ensuring Australia’s involvement in major astronomy initiatives around the world.
Science has largely flown under the radar in a restrained Federal Budget, with no big spending measures and no major cuts apart from previously-announced university funding changes.
An astronomy partnership with the European Southern Observatory will recieve support of $26 million, ensuring Australia’s involvement in major astronomy initiatives around the world. Funding for advanced manufacturing will come under the CRC program, and the first real investments will start to flow from the Medical Research Future Fund.
The Academy also welcomes:
The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap and its recommendations.
Professor Les Field, Secretary for Science Policy, said the nine focus areas for infrastructure development identified in the roadmap are the right priorities.
“The Academy now looks forward to the release of the Government’s research infrastructure investment plan,” Professor Field said.
The Academy has announced the commencement of a new initiative to develop a 10-year strategic plan for biosystematics and taxonomy in Australasia.
Twenty-one of Australia’s best scientists have been elected to the Australian Academy of Science today for their outstanding contributions to science.
Twenty-one of Australia’s best scientists have been elected to the Australian Academy of Science, a rare and esteemed honour, for their outstanding contributions to science.
Delivered 9 am Wednesday 24 May 2017, Shine Dome, Canberra
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Australian Academy of Science President, Professor Andrew Holmes AC PresAA FRS FTSE
Fellows of the Academy, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.
Before we begin the proceedings, I would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners of the land on which we meet—the Ngunnawal people of the Wiradjuri Nation. It is upon their ancestral lands that the Australian Academy of Science is built.
The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the changes to the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) grant funding program announced today.
Professor Andrew Holmes, President of the Academy, is optimistic that the reforms will assist the NHMRC to fund and support health and medical research in a more targeted and equitable way in the future.
“The Paris Accord in 2015 was a landmark in global acceptance of the need to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
“Signatories accepted that to limit global warming to 1.5-2.0-degrees above pre-industrial levels, we needed to reach net-zero carbon emissions by the second half of the century, and reduce atmospheric greenhouse gas levels thereafter.
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