The amendments to the Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill strike a better balance between protecting Australia’s national security and ensuring domestic and international scientific collaboration can continue to serve our national interest, says President of the Australian Academy of Science Professor Chennupati Jagadish.
“I am pleased the Academy’s sustained advocacy in this area has been heard,” Professor Jagadish said.
Ten early-career researchers from Australia will be heading to Lindau, Germany this year to attend the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
The annual event is expected to bring together 40 Nobel Laureates and 635 young scientists from more than 90 nations.
Parliamentarians have backed a more robust and research-oriented system for the nation by passing reforms to the Australian Research Council (ARC) this week.
President of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Chennupati Jagadish, said that limiting the use of the ministerial veto is a particularly significant reform supported by Australia’s scientists.
“It will ensure that properly assessed, high-quality research proposals proceed without an ideologically imposed filter, a change advocated by the Academy since at least 2018,” Professor Jagadish said.
How is the food on our plates changing? And how are Australian scientific capabilities evolving to meet the future needs of the nation?
Australia’s scientists say the passage of the Defence Trade Control Amendment Bill 2023 today improves the balance between protecting Australia’s national security and enabling the benefits that open scientific collaboration offer Australia and the globe.
The 2025 honorific awards and funding opportunities are now open.
Nominations for awards close on 1 May 2024.
Applications for funding opportunities close on 1 June 2024.
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Honours and awards to Fellows
Professor Arthur Christopoulos FAA FAHMS – American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2024 Louis S Goodman and Alfred Gilman Award in Receptor Pharmacology Professor Frances Separovic AO FAA – 2024 Croation Woman of InfluenceIf Fellows have been recognised for an award, please let us know via fellowship@science.org.au.
This month we saw the Academy’s sustained advocacy and leadership to strengthen and protect Australia’s research system pay dividends, with the introduction and passing of two major pieces of legislation in Australia’s Parliament.
The Senate passed the Australian Research Council Amendment (Review Response) Bill 2023, which will limit the use of the ministerial veto in research funding decisions.
Today, 22 researchers from around Australia who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of science are recognised for their achievements with Australian Academy of Science honorific awards.
The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the Prime Minister’s announcement of his government’s intention to legislate a Future Made in Australia Act.
President of the Australian Academy of Science Professor Chennupati Jagadish said, “A future made in Australia is heavily dependent on the breadth and depth of Australian science.”
Science underpins innovation and industry, but over the past two decades, we have seen incoherence in research and development (R&D) policy and investment in Australia, he added.
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