Australia has new national science and research priorities for the first time in nearly a decade after the Albanese government settled on net zero technologies, community health, indigenous knowledge systems, biodiversity and national resilience.
The new challenge-based priorities unveiled on Monday come after nearly two years of development and are intended to align the government, university and private sectors’ science and research efforts over the next decade.
They include “elevating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems” as a central priority after it was controversially omitted from a draft version last year.
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