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Slight increase in Government R&D investment welcome, but still much to be done
While there is a slight increase in Government investment in R&D from 2022-23 to 2023-24, there is much still to be done if we are to see a full turnaround in the decades-long downward trend in R&D investment. Australia’s investment remains well below the OECD average.
In a time of risk and opportunity, science is critical
The President of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Chennupati Jagadish, said the Australian Government cannot build a stronger, more resilient nation with a stagnant research and development system that relies on decades-old settings.
Australia’s R&D system is broken and needs more than band-aids
For a community that loves its smartphones and obligingly updates the operating system when we are advised a few times each year, why are we prepared to live with an operating system for our research that hasn’t been updated in 30 years?
Restoring turtle habitats, protecting lizards and helping frogs with the Margaret Middleton Fund
Three early-career researchers have been awarded funding for ecology projects thanks to the Margaret Middleton Fund for endangered Australian native vertebrate animals.
Quantum photonics pioneer tours Australia as Frew Fellow
The Academy’s 2023 Frew Fellow, Professor Jelena Vuckovic, toured and lectured in Australia recently as a recipient of the Academy’s Geoffrey Frew Fellowship. The Fellowship brings distinguished overseas scientists to Australia to participate in Australian spectroscopy conferences and to visit scientific centres, and was initiated in 1970 through a personal donation from Mr G S V Frew.
Ukrainian researchers supported by Aussie counterparts in second round of grants
The Australian Academy of Science congratulates recipients of the second round of grants from the Ukraine-Australia Research Fund, announced today.