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Academy Council takes Panel Pledge to encourage gender diversity

All Academy Council members have signed the Panel Pledge, making a public commitment to only participate in events where efforts have been taken to ensure women have meaningful representation.

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Pandemic risks wiping out hard-won gains by women in STEM

Hard-won gains for women’s advancement in the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) workforce are now at risk of a major setback due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19 impacts on Australian research workforce predicted to be significant

Australia’s research workforce will be severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects are likely to be felt for an extended period. Universities in particular have been dealt a double blow by the pandemic.

Research sector answers the Government’s call for the best available evidence on COVID-19

Research sector answers the Government’s call for the best available evidence on COVID-19

Australia and New Zealand’s science, research and innovation sectors have united to provide governments with the latest and best evidence as they contain and respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Australia’s leading scientists respond to the release of Government’s modelling data

The Australian Academy of Science is encouraged by indications that National Cabinet will make public future models based on Australian data on a regular basis.

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Academy supports IAP communiqué on COVID-19

Australia’s leading scientists call for data underpinning COVID-19 decisions to be made public-thumbnail

Australia’s leading scientists call for data underpinning COVID-19 decisions to be made public

The global COVID-19 pandemic affects all Australians and their loved ones at home and abroad. It is having a profound and enduring impact on our society, our resilience and our health.

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STEM Equity Monitor will help drive universal changes in gender equity

The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the Advancing Women in STEM 2020 Action Plan announced today by the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, the Hon Karen Andrews MP.

The Australian bushfires—why they are unprecedented

The Australian bushfires—why they are unprecedented

In a statement on the Australian bushfires published on 10 January 2020, the President of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor John Shine, stated that ‘the scale of these bushfires is unprecedented anywhere in the world’.