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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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Season's greetings from the President

Reflecting on scientific achievements and urgent future challenges, this year saw the Academy call for major reinvestment in research, infrastructure and innovation to meet the challenges ahead.
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More than 10 years of R&D funding decline cannot be restored in one budget

The Australian Academy of Science welcomes one-off funding of $233 million for CSIRO and $40.8 million for ANSTO in the Government’s mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO) as a first step towards supporting focused and sustainable government-funded science agencies.
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Global epilepsy pioneer elected 21st President of the Australian Academy of Science

One of the world’s most respected neurologists whose pioneering work changed the way we think about epilepsy will become the next President of the Australian Academy of Science – Australia’s leading independent voice for science.
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President's speech – Australia's choice: science and technology in an era of disruption

This is the transcript of the Ralph Slatyer Address on Science and Society by President of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC, at the Cooperative Research Australia 2025 National Innovation Policy Forum. The event was held at the National Press Club of Australia on Monday 3 November 2025.
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President's speech: Australian Council of Deans of Science

This is the transcript of a speech by President of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC, at the Australian Council of Deans of Science (ACDS) Annual Conference Gala Dinner. It was delivered on 21 October 2025 at the Shine Dome.

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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