Submissions to Government

The Academy supports the ARC's draft 'FAIR data policy' but recommends clearer assessment, richer metadata and stronger safeguards for sensitive data and Indigenous data sovereignty.

As Australia prepares to join Horizon Europe, the Academy proposes that learned academies host National Contact Points, recommending pre-proposal incentives and broader success metrics beyond simple application rates.

The Academy supports flexibility for universities to deliver high-quality research and scale in areas of strength and comparative advantage, as recommended in the 'Ambitious Australia' report.

Australia's data centre boom should deliver value at home. The Academy calls for a research levy, researcher data rights, mandatory standards and national supercomputing investment.

The Academy broadly supports the direction of the proposed strategy, particularly its focus on research excellence, workforce capability and translational research.

The Academy offers advice to strengthen Australia's climate change policy and ensure that Australia maintains the scientific capability required to respond to the challenges of climate change.

The Academy calls for urgent, science-led climate action, stronger modelling capability and regional leadership to support 1.5°C pathways, emissions reductions and equitable local adaptation.

Australia’s environmental law reform will fail to halt biodiversity decline unless environmental offsets are made measurable, enforceable and outcome focused.

The National Environmental Standards should be clear, unambiguous, measurable and enforceable.

The Academy recommends climate‑adjusted water limits, stronger monitoring and sustained research investment to safeguard the Murray–Darling Basin, as current settings risk accelerating ecological decline.