Tag: CSIRO

Uni research gets $1b pandemic survival injection

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Australia’s university research sector has been given a $1 billion pandemic survival injection in the budget while a new government study will scope out the potential of a translational...

CSIRO gets a $459m budget lifeline for science

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The federal government has thrown CSIRO a $459 million lifeline as the country’s peak science research organisation reels from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on its industry partnership...

Digital the other great horizontal opportunity

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The CSIRO’s COVID-19: Recovery and Resilience report published earlier this month is a great summary of the role of science and technology in creating value, and in identifying the...

Pawsey, NCI join White House led research

Posted on   |  by Elise McDonald
The White House Office of Science and Technology has announced that NCI Australia and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have joined the US-led COVID High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium. Joining...

Larry Marshall: ‘History will judge us’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
At a time when public trust in science is on the rise, CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall has issued a clarion call to Australia to rally around a set...

Stone & Chalk acquires Ribit matchmaker

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Ribit, the digital student job and internship matchmaking service set up by the CSIRO’s Data61 as part of funding from the federal Digital Careers program has been acquired by...

40 jobs axed from CSIRO energy unit

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Large scale cuts to CSIRO’s energy unit are “unwise and damaging”, with fears the upcoming federal budget will further impair the country’s science research agency, according to its staff...

Time for change: Health funding models

Posted on   |  by Dr Olga Kokshagina and Dr Gillian Vesty
There are growing calls from governments and the clinical profession to move toward a more individualised, patient-centric and value-based approach to health care. COVID-19 has highlighted the critical need...

Marshall saddles up for three more years

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall was not everyone’s first pick to lead the national science agency when he was appointed to the role in 2015. But the CSIRO board...