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Future-focused strategies to facilitate transformative discoveries and innovation.
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The Academy’s future-focused strategies facilitate transformative discoveries and innovation, keeping Australia at the forefront of global research efforts.

The Academy leads 10-year plans to shape scientific progress and help Australian researchers make transformative contributions. Our decadal plans offer structured, goal-oriented roadmaps and motivating missions for scientific fields spanning astronomy, nutrition, biodiversity and more.

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Parliament House in Canberra

A starting point, not a solution: The 2026–27 Budget for Australian science

The Academy’s analysis of the 2026–27 Budget highlights first steps to reform Australia’s ailing R&D system, but measures won’t shift the dial on years of underinvestment.
Australia Parliament House

Budget signals support for ambitious reform for Australian science

The Academy welcomes 2026–27 Budget measures that back key recommendations of the Strategic Examination of Research and Development.
Melissa Abberton

Academy Council appoints inaugural Executive Director

The Council of the Australian Academy of Science is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Melissa Abberton as the inaugural Executive Director.
Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC

Message from the President: April 2026

This newsletter marks my last as Academy President. As my term draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on what makes this Academy matter.
Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC

Message from the President: March 2026

This month, the Academy welcomed the Australian Government’s 'Ambitious Australia' report, the most comprehensive examination of Australia's research and innovation system in decades.

The Australian Academy of Science acknowledges and pays respects to the Traditional Owners of all the lands on which the Academy operates, and where its Fellows and employees live and work. The Academy recognises Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first innovators and scientists of this land and honour their enduring connection to Country, from which we are committed to learn. We pay our respects to, and recognise the cultural authority of, their Elders past and present.

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