The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the Australian Government’s renewed investment in Geoscience Australia (GA).
This investment will help drive our nation’s critical minerals industry through large-scale mapping and exploration.
Such a comprehensive exploration of Australia’s mineral wealth, surface and sub-surface, will require new scientific knowledge, data analysing capacity, tools and skills, however.
The Australian Academy of Science applauds the Australian Government’s commitment to a strategic examination of Australia’s research and development (R&D) system announced in the Federal Budget tonight.
Academy President, Professor Chennupati Jagadish, said the strategic examination is a welcome acknowledgement by the government that a stronger, more resilient nation cannot be built with a stagnant, siloed and atomised R&D system based on decades-old settings way past their use-by date.
The strategic examination of Australia’s research and development (R&D) system announced in tonight’s Federal Budget is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to power up R&D in Australia that the Australian Academy of Science has been calling for since 2018.
The pages of our national newspapers are littered with debate about the merits of the Albanese Government’s Future Made in Australia policy. Yet, the one factor that supporters and opponents equally ignore is that no matter your vision for the future, economic power in the 21st century correlates with scientific power.
Four Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science are among 90 outstanding scientists to be elected to the Royal Society today, in recognition of their invaluable contributions to science.
An expert in spider venoms, a leader in plant science, an authority on star formation and an oncologist who has changed the way melanoma is treated are among 24 researchers elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.
President of the Academy Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC said it is a privilege to welcome new Fellows to the Academy each year.
Professor H Vincent Poor and Professor Eric Warrant join the likes of Sir David Attenborough, Nobel Laureates Professor Elizabeth Blackburn and Sir Fraser Stoddard as Corresponding Members of the Australian Academy of Science in 2024.
Nominations and applications are open for the Academy’s 2024 funding awards, including research conferences, research awards and travelling fellowships.
The closing date is 1 June.
More information on the Academy’s 2025 funding opportunities
If Fellows have been recognised with an award, please let us know via fellowship@science.org.au so we can consider including it in the next update.
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