16
February - Tear prevention:
NordBord Hamstring Testing System, a
new invention manufactured by QUT
spin-off Vald Performance, measures
the strength of athletes' hamstrings,
potentially saving professional sports
clubs hundreds of millions of dollars
in lost player time. ...read
media release
10
February - Building on previous
investment by ARENA, new Australian
backed funding for Sunverge Energy's
residential battery storage systems is
totalling $36 million, and includes
$20 million from AGL Energy Limited...read
media release
9
February - A paper in Nature
Geoscience, co-authored by researchers
from Adelaide and New South Wales
universities, shows that the Atlantic
captured and stored most of the
atmospheric CO2 lost during
the last ice age ...read
media release
9
February - According to new data from
the Australian Bureau of Statistics,
Australian households spent $47
billion on energy, including $16
billion on electricity and $25 billion
on petroleum products such as petrol
and diesel in 2013-14, while average
energy use declined by 1%. However,
energy intensity levelled off after
four years of decreases ...read
media release
9
February - University of Melbourne
researchers have revealed that the now
arid Nullarbor Plain was once
featuring forests of wet gums and
Banksias ...read
the story
8
February - CSIRO's chief executive
Larry Marshall has released a
statement correcting the public record
on announced changes at CSIRO ...read
media release
8
February - A study by the University
of Queensland and the Wildlife
Conservation Society shows that
countries emitting the most greenhouse
gases are the least vulnerable to
climate change ...read
the story
6
February - University of Sydney
researchers have analysed the
flexibility of elastin, a crucial
building block in our bodies ...read
media release
5
February - Ancient DNA extracted from
people who lived in Europe 35, 000 to
7, 000 years ago has revealed a
previously unknown major population
turnover in Europe at the end of the
last Ice Age ...read
media release
4
February - According to news reports,
CSIRO is going to cut around 350 jobs,
with most affecting the organisation's
climate science divisions ...read
the ARDR summary and expert
reactions
4
February - Research data from
Australia's largest-ever stuy of
business start-ups was released to the
public today by QUT and Innovation
Minister Christopher Pyne. ...read
media release
2
February - A UniSA research laboratory
is working with Melbourne-based
biotech company Sementis Ltd to
develop a vaccine to combat the
mosquito-borne Zika virus. ...read
media release
2
February - If you ever worried your
big brain is a sign of heightened risk
for schizophrenia - it's not,
according to a study Australians
co-authored in Nature
Neuroscience ...read
the paper abstract
1 February - Applications are now open
for the latest round of funding for
CRCs and CRC Projects ...read
media release
1 February - Dr Alan Finkel has
released a first statement as
Australia's new chief scientist ...read
media release
1 February - In a deal worth $730
million, a new class of cancer drug
candidates developed by the Cancer
Therapeutics CRC has been licensed to
the company MSD (Merck), with
potentially multimillion dollar
benefits for the Australian
organisation and its research partners
...read
media release
29
January - Researchers from CUDOS have
publised in Nature Communications
a new class of light wave that opens
up future applications in many areas
such as in precision laser surgery,
imaging devices, and ultrafast
computing and communication
technology. ...read
media release
29
- The Australian Government has opened
Round 2 of the Next Generation
Manufacturing Investment Program to
deliver $30 million worth of grants to
Victoria's and South Australia's high
value manufacturing industry ...read
media release
29
January - Swiss and Australian
scientists have tested anti-prion
antibodies that help clear clumps of
protein from the brain, to investigate
their benefits, toxicity and potential
as immunotherapy treatments for
neurodegenerative diseases ...read
media release
28
January - The ARC Training Centre for
Forest Value has officially been
launched at the University of Tasmania
...read
media release
28 January - The Australian
Government has released its exposure
draft legislation for the $5 billion
Northern Australia Infrastructure
Facility ...read
media release
28
January - Published in Nature
Energy: Scientists, including
from the ANU, have developed a new
silicon solar cell that promises
cheaper manufacturing processes and
better power output ...read
media release
28
January - Ever wondered what keep
worker bees and ants slaving for the
queen? ANU research suggests that it's
because of the queen's pheromones,
which chemically alter workers' genes
...read
media release
27
January - CropPAL, a new database of
valuable protein information for
economically important crop plants,
has been developed by the Australian
Research Council Centre of Excellence
in Plant Energy Biology at the
University of Western Australia ...read
media release
27
January - Published in Global Change
Biology, a study from Edith Cowan
University has shed light on when and
how seagrasses along Australia's coast
have been devastated ...read
media release
27
January - UNSW scientists have
published in Nature
Communications a theory
suggesting that complex human brain
activity is governed by the same
simple universal rule of nature that
can explain other phenomena such as
the beautiful sound of a finely
crafted violin or the spots on a
leopard. ...read
media release
26
January - A study led by the
University of Sydney published in Nature
Geoscience has found that just
four countries are responsible for
almost half of the total global
nitrogen pollution ...read
media release
25
January - International scientists,
including an Australian, say
epigenetics could explain why
identical twins can be very different
weights, and they've found a protein
that affects how the switching works
...read
media release
25
January - A new report by
Professionals Australia suggests
age-based discrimination and bias are
widespread among Australia's STEM
professionals ...read
media release
25
January - The Australian Government
has opened a one-stop-shop for major
project approvals in Northern
Australia ...read
media release
22
January - CSIRO research published in
Science suggests inivisible
structures shaped like noodles,
lasagne sheets or hazelnuts are
floating around in our Galaxy
challenging current understanding of
interstellar gas ...read
media release
22
January - Outgoing chief scientist Ian
Chubb has released a
report prepared by the Centre
for International Economics
that found science underpins more than
one-quarter of Australia's economic
output...read
media release
21
January - The CRC Association has
uploaded its latest newsletter ...read
media release
20
January - $15 million will be made
available to support ten automotive
component manufacturers in South
Australia ...read
media release
20
January - AGL Energy Limited and First
Solar have successfully completed
Australia's two largest solar
photovoltaic (PV) plants at Nyngan and
Broken Hill ...read
media release
19
January - The Australian Government
has offered grants worth $7.8 million
to 17 Australian companies under the
latest round of its Entrepreneurs'
Programme. ...read
media release
19
January - Australia's outgoing chief
scientist Professor Ian Chubb has
posted a farewell note welcoming
incoming chief scientist Dr Alan
Finkel to the job ...read
media release
19
January - Using the NCI supercomputer
Rajin Australian researchers have
developed a way to improve the
humidity tolerance of a new type of
solar cell technology that is cheaper
than traditional silicon cells but
usually drop in performance in humid
conditions. ...read
media release
19
January - New research led by Monash
University and the University of
Bristol has resulted in the
development of a blueprint to
routinely turn cells in the human body
into tissues needed to treat disease.
...read
media release
18
January - Two specific markers that
identify stem cells able to generate
heart muscle and the vessels that
support heart function have been
uncovered by scientists at Murdoch
Childrens Research Institute and UCLA
Eli and Edythe Broad Center of
Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell
Research. ...read
media release
15
January - An international research
team that includes UNSW scientists has
discovered a new genetic target for
the development of possible treatments
for the common inherited blood
diseases sickle cell anaemia and
thalassaemia. ...read
media release
14
January - Graphene-based cellular
elastomer, a new sponge-like material
discovered by Monash researchers,
could have diverse and valuable
real-life applications, such as to
create soft, tactile robots to help
care for elderly people, perform
remote surgical procedures or build
highly sensitive prosthetic hands. ...read
media release
14
January - Stone tools dating back to
at least 118,000 years ago have been
discovered in Sulawesi, Indonesia,
suggesting that early humans colonised
the island much earlier than
previously thought, Australian
researchers published in Nature.
...read
research summary and paper
abstract
14
January - ARENA has announced 22
large-scale projects short-listed for
its $100 million large-scale
photovoltaic (PV) competitive round
...read
media release
13
January - WEHI researchers have found
that babies with hyperactive immune
cells at birth are more likely to
develop food allergies in their first
year of life ...read
media release
12
January - International scientists,
including Australians, have identified
three new areas of the genetic code
that are associated with an increased
risk of developing the most common
form of glaucoma - the leading cause
of blindness worldwide ...read
research summary and research
abstract
11 January - The Australian
Government invests $4 million to
expand the national diabetes database
...read
media release
5
January - University of Sydney led
research published in Nature has
discovered strong magenetic fields are
common in stars, with potentially
important implications for evolution
and the ultimate fate of stars...read
media release
4
January - Researchers have discovered
a record 20 new fish species while
conducting fieldwork in the remote
Kimberley, unveiling it as Australia's
most biodiverse region for freshwater
fish ...read
media release
31
December - A protein that controls
milk production in the breast after
pregnancy can go rogue in breast
cancer, driving the spread of cancer
to the lungs, Australian researchers
have published in PLOS Biology. ...read
media release
25
December - Australian scientists have
for the first time revealed how
malaria parasites cause an
inflammatory reaction that sabotages
our body s ability to protect itself
against the disease. ...read
media release
24
December - The idea that there are a
limited number of evolutionarily
successful plant traits associated
with plant organs such as leaves,
stems and seeds was validated by a
paper co-authored by Australians in
Nature. ...read
media release
23
December - The Chief Economist's
Resources and Energy Quarterly
forecasts that Australia s resources
and energy export earnings will
decline by 4% to $166 billion in
2015-16, but increase by more than 40%
to $235 billion in real terms by
2019-20. ...read
media release
23
December - Just using the mass of fish
in a protected area is not a good
guide to how well it has recovered
from overfishing, and demographics
returning to normal should also be
taken into account, according to US,
UK and Australian researchers. ...read
research paper
22
December - The deadline for public
nominations to the Australian
Government's mobile black spots
programme has been extended from 21
December 2015 to 15 January 2016 ...read
media release
22
December - The Government has welcomed
the release of the interim report on
the review of the Government's
offshore resource management policy
and regulatory framework. ...read
media release
22
December - An international study,
including Australian researchers, has
significantly expanded the number of
genetic factors known to play a role
in age-related macular degeneration
(AMD) ...read
media release
22
December - Researchers at Adelaide's
Centre for Cancer Biology (CCB) have
discovered that inhibiting a
particular protein in the skin can
accelerate the healing of wounds. ...read
media release
22
December - Aggressive honeybees calm
down and sting less when they smell
odours from flowers associated with
food, such as those found in lavender
and roses, according research led by
Maquarie University researchers ...read
paper in Nature Communications
22
December - Seaweed forests display
highly localised temperature
tolerances along the coastline of
Australia's Great Southern Reef,
researchers from UWA have found ...read
media release
21
December - The Australian Government
has released new Cooperative Research
Centres Programme guidelines ...read
media release
21
December - Still 10 days to nominate
an area for Round 2 of the Mobile
Black Spot Programme. Over 6,000
locations were nominated under Round 1
of the program ...read
media release
18
December - UNSW researchers published
in the open access journal Scientific
Reports a potential way to disperse
biofilms, often responsible for
chronic infections, using
nanoparticles and heat. ...read
media release
18
December - Published in Science,
an evolutionary biologist from the ANU
has analysed political opposition to
evolution and found it has evolved ...read
media release
18
December - The Australian Renewable
Energy Agency will invest $4 million
in the construction of a 330 MW pumped
storage hydroelectric power plant at
the disused Kidston Gold Mine in North
Queensland. ...read
media release
18
December - According to a study co-led
by UNSW researchers, a thigh bone
found in China suggests an ancient
species of human thought to be long
extinct may have survived until as
recently as the end of the last Ice
Age. ...read
media release
17
December - The ACMA reports spectrum
management outcomes from the
International Telecommunication Union
(ITU) 2015 World Radiocommunication
Conference (WRC 15) in Geneva ...read
media release
17
December - The Australian and
Queensland Governments have announced
$15 million in funding for seven
projects delivering pest and weed
control in drought-affected areas in
Queensland...read
media release
17
December - UNSW Australia astronomers
have discovered the closest
potentially habitable planet found
outside our solar system so far,
orbiting a star just 14 light years
away. ...read
media release
16
December - The Australian Government
has announced the establishment of a
"landing pad" for businesses in Tel
Aviv, which is part of its National
Innovation & Science Agenda ...read
media release
GSK
Australia's new pilot vaccine facility
at Boronia, Victoria, is testing a new
production method developed by an
Australian-led team. ...read
media release
16
December - Ocean energy company
BioPower Systems (BPS) has deployed a
250kW bioWAVE pilot demonstration unit
off the coast near Port Fairy,
Victoria. ...read
media release
16
December - The ARC Future Fellowships
scheme has delivered $38.6 million in
funding for 50 new research projects
...read
announcement
15
December - $4.6 million in new funding
over four years will match voluntary
industry contributions to Forest and
Wood Products Australia (FWPA)
research and development. ...read
media release
15
December - CSIRO researchers have
published in Nature Materials
a new process to grow designer
crystals using vapour. This, they say,
could lead to a new breed of faster,
more powerful electronic devices. ...read
media release
14
December - Methane emissions from
cattle in Australia are 24% lower than
previously estimated. ...read
media release
11
December - The University of Adelaide
and Trajan Scientific & Medical
have formed a strategic partnership
...read
media release
13
December - Most of the evolutionary
diversity of corals and fish is not
currently supported by the world s
network of marine protected areas
(MPAs), Australian researchers write
in Nature Communications ...research
summary or paper
abstract
12
December - The office of the chief
economist has released a report on how
regional universities drive regional
innovation ...read
media release
11 December - Researchers from
Australia and Singapore describe in Nature
Communications new
nanotechnology tools that could change
how cancers and brain diseases, such
as dementia and Parkinson's disease
are treated in the future. ...read
media release
7
December - Researchers from Australia
and the US have discovered a distant,
ancient cloud of gas that may contain
the signature of the very first stars
that formed in the Universe. ...read
media release
11
December - Woodside Energy's US$2
billion Greater Western Flank Phase 2
Project off the north-west coast of
Australia will go ahead. ...read
media release
11
December - Dr Gwen Fenton is the
Australian Antarctic Division's new
Chief Scientist. ...read
media release
9
December - According to a new report,
Corporate Australia's has been
overlooked in the government's
innovation statement ...read
media release
8
December - The Australian Government
has launched Collaborate, a new
Queensland-based accelerator designed
to build businesses focused on solving
the problems of business...read
media release
8
December - In an opinion piece
published in the Guardian, STA's chief
executive officer Catriona Jackson has
applauded the government's Innovation
Statement ...read
the opinion (STA website)
7
December - The Chief Scientist has
welcomed the release of the Australian
Government's National Innovation and
Science Agenda. ...read
media release
6
December - Australia will be part of
an International Partnership for Blue
Carbon, established at the Global
Landscapes Forum in Paris ...read
announcement
5
December - The third Emissions
Reduction Fund auction will be
conducted by the independent Clean
Energy Regulator on Wednesday 27 and
Thursday 28 April 2016. ...read
announcement
4
December - Provost and senior
vice-president of Monash University
Professor Edwina Cornish will join the
CSIRO Board for the next five years
...read
media release
4
December - The Council of Australian
Governments (COAG) Energy Council has
released Australia's first National
Energy Productivity Plan 2015-2030,
which targets a 40% improvement in
Australia's energy productivity over
the next 15 years. ...read
the plan
4
December - University of Melbourne's
System Biology Laboratory has
developed a framework for
understanding cell function, and
ultimately disease, based on an
energy-based mathematical modelling
technique...read
media release
4
December - ARENA will contribute up to
$892,000 towards CSIRO's development
and application of guidelines that can
assess the performance of perovskite
solar photovoltaic cells...read
media release
3 December - The Australian
Government has released a set of
capability statements against
Australia's nine Science and Research
Priorities developed by the Chief
Scientist ...read
media release
3
December - The release of the
Electricity Generation Major Project
report by Australia's Chief Economist
shows that renewable energy is
dominating new major projects in
Australia. ...read
the report
3
December - Researchers from the WEHI
and collaborators reveal in Nature
Immunology that a network of
immune cells helps the appendix to
play a pivotal role in maintaining the
health of the digestive system,
supporting the theory that the
appendix isn t a vestigial or
redundant organ. ...read
media release
2
December - The Australian Government
has launched Australia's National
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Strategy at the United Nations Climate
Change Conference in Paris ...read
media release
2
December - In an Australian first, the
Melbourne Energy Renewable Energy
Project brings together local
governments, cultural and educational
institutions and private-sector
corporations to invest in renewable
energy through a group purchasing
model. ...read
media release
1 December - Researchers from six
Australian institutions are part of
multinational projects selected in the
first round of the International Wheat
Yield Partnership ...read
media release
1
December - Tiny variations in genes
can contribute to breast cancer risk,
a study co-authored by Adelaide
University researchers in Nature
Genetics has found ...read
media release
1
December - Australian start-up Kayban
has developed the world s first
anti-microbial healthcare range made
from organic flaxseed oil following a
collaboration with CSIRO. ...read
media release
1
December - A gene which protects
against wheat stem rust disease, the
major disease threat to wheat
production, has been published by
Australian researchers in Nature
Plants. ...read
the paper abstract
1
December - Australia's largest
renewables mining project at the
DeGrussa Copper-Gold Mine has
installed the first 34,089 solar
photovoltaic panels ...read
media release
1
December - Microsoft has released a
report exploring how Australia could
become more innovative. ...read
media release
1
December - An international study,
including from the ANU, has identified
a network of nine genes that play a
key role in the onset of Alzheimer s
Disease. ...read
media release
1
December - A University of Queensland
led study suggests that many crops
depend on non-bee insect pollinators,
potentially under threat from
pesticides applied to spare bees ...read
media release
30
November - Deakin University
scientists have manufactured a novel
material that absorbs oil and thus
could be used to clean up major oil
spills such as the 2010 Gulf Coast BP
disaster...read
media release
27
November - A University of New South
Wales led study published in Nature
Communications has discovered
how connections between brain cells
are destroyed in the early stages of
Alzheimer s disease. ...read
media release
27
November - On Monday 7 December the
Australian Government is expected to
release its Innovation Statement, yet
a business survey on the R&D Tax
Incentive has only just commenced:
incredibly inept, according to BDO
Research & Development partner
Nicola Purser ...read
media release
27
November - Innovation in Australia is
suffering from a lack of direction,
short-termism and a haphazard
approach, says a new ACOLA report
launched today in Canberra. ...read
media release
26 November - The CO2CRC
has released the Australian Power
Generation Technology Report, the to
date most in-depth study of how our
power generation landscape will change
over the next 15 years. ...read
report's executive summary
25 November - The Australian
Government has released the Australian
Innovation System Report 2015...read
media release
24
November - The Western Australian
Department of Agriculture and Food
will conduct an indoor assessment of a
genetically modified Mediterranean
fruit fly ...read
media release and expert
reactions
25
November - The University of
Wollongong's Australian Institute for
Innovative Materials (AIIM) this week
launched the four-week online course
'Bioprinting: 3D Printing Body Parts'
...read
media release
23
November - The Australian Government
has launched Source IP, a new digital
intellectual property marketplace...read
media release
23
November - The Australian Academy of
Sciences has awarded UQ's Associate
Professor Geoffrey Faulkner the 2016
Ruth Stephens Gani Medal...read
media release
20
November - CSIRO scientists have
advanced in revealing the 'dark
proteome', the structural areas of
proteins in eukaryotes that are
completely unknown ...read
media release
19
November - The CSIRO has officially
opened its $6 million Lab 22
Innovation Centre, which will provide
Australian companies with access to 3D
printing ...read
media release
19
November - A new round of grants worth
a total of $11.2 has been awarded
under the Geelong Region Innovation
and Investment Fund...read
media release
19
November - Australian research on
marine sediments from up to 600
million years ago has paved the way
for a new barometer of what helped to
wipe out and restore life in
prehistoric times....read
media release
19
November - The Australian Government
has announced commercialisation
assistance totalling $8.5 million
offered to ten innovative companies
under the Entrepreneurs' Programme.
...read
media release
18
November - The ARC for Transforming
Waste Directly in Cost-effective Green
Manufacturing has been launched at the
University of New South Wales ...read
media release
17
November - The new ARC Research Hub
for Advanced Technologies for
Australian Iron Ore has been
officially launched at the Institute
for Energy and Resources at The
University of Newcastle...read
media release
17
November - Bill Ferris has been
appointed as the new chair of
Innovation Australia ...read
media release
17
November - Australian engineers have
proven that a quantum version of
computer code can be written using two
quantum bits in a silicon
microchip....read
media release
16
November - Reforms across Australian
institutions and investments for the
future could add more than 20 per cent
to living standards by 2030, according
to a new report from the Australian
Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA).
...read
media release
16
November - CSIRO research has
developed a new coating for medical
devices and implants based on
molecules from a primordial goo...read
media release
16
November - The ARC Gender Equality
Action Plan 2015-16 has been
released...read
media release
13
November - Six voluntary sites have
been shortlisted for a national
radioactive waste management facility
...read
media release
12
November - Researchers from the
University of Queensland, Griffith
University and Bond University found
that improving doctors' communication
skills and providing patients with
written information about antibiotics
reduces their use...read
media release
12
November - Professor Perry Bartlett,
founding director of the Queensland
Brain Institute at The University of
Queensland, has received the CSL
Florey Medal for his breakthrough
discoveries in neuroscience...read
media release
12
November - Australian-led research has
discovered the oldest known stars,
dating from before the Milky Way
Galaxy formed, when the Universe was
just 300 million years old...read
media release
12
November - Australian-led research
found that local fish species are not
necessarily most at risk in areas of
the oceans predicted to be most
affected by global warming...read
media release
11
November - Australian and Korean
scientists have established a
comprehensive list of species and
subspecies of native Aussie birds...read
media release
10
November - A Nature Materials
corresponding article suggests a
future based entirely on renewable
energy sources is possible...read
media release
10
November - New Zealand and Tasmania
stayed frozen while the rest of the
world warmed up at the end of the last
ice age, according to a new study by
international scientists including an
Australian....read
media release
10
November - A study involving
Australian scientists has identified a
gene that could prevent some of the
most important wheat diseases...read
media release
6 November - The Australian Government
will invest $630 million in 836 health
& medical research projects
through the Medical Research Future
Fund ...read
media release
5 November - Featured as a lead story
in Nature, a new report from
the CSIRO shows that Australia has the
capacity to significantly grow the
economy while protecting and even
improving the environment...read
media release
2 November - The first
three-dimensional image of a protein
linked to the spread of cancer has
been determined by Griffith
University's Institute for
Glycomics...read
media release
30
October - The Australian Government
has announced the ARC Major Grants
2016, which will support 899 new
research projects with more than $357
million ...read
media release
31 October - Researchers based at
the ARC Centre of Excellence for
Quantum Computation and Communication
Technology have designed a full-scale
architecture for a quantum computer in
silicon...read
media release
30
October - A new report by the Office
of the Chief Scientist finds that
while having one of the highest rates
of business creations, Australia
produces few startups with the
capacity to grow beyond the local
level...read
media release
29
October - A group of the nation's
leading water scientists are urging
the Australian Government to
accelerate underground water storage
across Australia ...read
media release
29
October - Deakin University scientists
have discovered a potential new
treatment for tuberculosis, a disease
rapidly gaining resistance against
current medical therapies...read
media release
27
October - RMIT researchers have
developed the first low-cost and
reliable method of detecting the air
pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO2)...read
media release
27
October - Researchers from the
University of Technology Sydney have
found a material that emits a single
pulse of a quantum light on demand at
room temperature, removing one of the
barriers to extremely fast and secure
information processing....read
media release
26
October - Dr Alan Finkel, the current
president of the Academy of
Technological Sciences and
Engineering, is expected to become
Australia s next Chief Scientist...read
article in The Conversation
23
October - Research led by the WEHI and
the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes
Institute has identified an internal
sensor that instructs cells to burn
their fat stores...read
media release
22
October - A single blood test could
reveal whether an otherwise healthy
person is unusually likely to die of
pneumonia or sepsis within the next 14
years, according to research led by
The University of Melbourne...read
media release
23
October - The magnetic fields inside
huge stars known as red giants have
been probed for the first time by
international researchers, including
Australians...read
media release
23
October - A collaboration between The
Australian National University (ANU),
the Garvan Institute of Medical
Research and US biotech company
Genentech has discovered a gene
involved in the full-body infection
sepsis...read
media release
23
October- A University of Queensland
led international study has discovered
two new methane-metabolising
organisms...read
media release
23
October - The Australian Government
has reappointed Dr Kerry Schott as a
director of NBN Co for a second term
of three years...read
announcement
22
October - Professor Mark Howden from
the ANU has been announced a vice
chair of an IPCC working group...read
more
21
October - The winners of the 2015
Prime Minister's Science Prizes
have been announced...read
about the winners
19
October - The Australian Government
has announced 76 new Dementia Research
Development Fellowships jointly funded
by the NHMRC and ARC with $43
million...read
announcement
19
October - Research led by the
University of New South Wales has
developed a type of ultra-lightweight
magnesium alloy that is stronger, more
ductile and more resistant to
corrosion than other magnesium-based
alloys...read
the Nature Materials article preview
19
October - The first shipment of
liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the
Gladstone LNG project is on the way...read
announcement
19
October - Flinders University
researchers have found a way to suck
mercury out of water using a material
made of industrial waste and unwanted
orange peel...read
media release
16
October - The Australian Government
has released the National Broadband
Networks three-year construction
plan...read
announcement
16
October - Roy Woodal has been elected
as the inaugural National Geoscience
Champion...read
media release
16
October - A $2.54 million 'Super
Science' four-year research project
has been launched to fight cancer on a
new frontier...read
media release
16 October - A compression platform
for large video file developed by
technology venture Clipchamp won the
first prize at the qutbluebox
$100,000+ Innovation Challenge...read
media release
16 October - Research from the
Queensland University of Technology
sends a warning that the security and
safety of driverless cars, autonomous
vehicles and intelligent transport
systems could be compromised by
in-vehicle cyberattacks if appropriate
safeguards are not put in place...read
media release
16
October - University of Western
Australia researchers were involved in
a study that found that zebrafish has
more than 40 types of a light
detecting protein, so called opsins,
the most found in any vertebrate...read
media release
Research
from the University of Adelaide and
international collaborators has
identified a potential block against
the spread of cancer cells
(metastasis) and the progression of
autoimmune disease such as multiple
sklerosis...read
media release
15
October - A jump in global average
temperatures of 1.5?C to 2?C will lead
to hundreds and even thousands of
years of sea level rise, according to
Australian and New Zealand research
published in Nature...read
media release
15
October - Mangrove forest around the
Indo-Pacific region could be submerged
by 2070, according to a Nature paper
co-authored by researcher from the
University of Queensland...read
media release and opinion in The
Conversation
14
October - A team of Australian
scientists have developed a precision
laser device that creates an accurate
international standard for
temperature...read
media release and article in The
Conversation
12
October - the Australian Government
has launched a new guide to help small
business operators protect themselves
against cybercrime...read
announcement
9 October
- Scientists are now better able to
predict how quickly the HIV virus will
return after patients stop treatment
using immune system biomarkers
discovered by researchers at UNSW and
the University of Oxford....read
media release
9 October
- Physicists from the University of
Sydney have used diamonds to identify
cancerous tumours before they become
life threatening...read
media release
8 October
- ATSE has released its ATSE Focus
October edition calling for a new era
of high impact manufacturing...read
media release
8
October - Advancing their previous
research, Australian researchers have
used stem cells to produce
mini-kidneys containing all different
cell types that make up a human
kidney...read
media release
8 October - Swinburne University and
Cortical Dynamics Ltd have developed a
device that will enable anaesthetists
to measure anaesthetic delivery and
make adjustments as necessary during
surgical procedures...read
media release
7 October
- According to the Australian Bureau
of Statistics, the total Gross Value
of Agricultural Production (GVAP) was
$50.9 billion in 2013-14, up 6% from
2012-13, with irrigated Agricultural
Production (GVIAP) accounting for
$14.6 billion, up 9% from 2012-13...read
the report
7 October
- Ahead of 50 nano-satellites, called
CubeSats, being launched into orbit as
part of the European QB50 project,
they will be tested using facilities
at ANU...read
media release
7 October
- Laureate Professor Scott Sloane from
the University of Newcastle is 2015
NSW Scientist of the Year...read
announcement
7
October - Evolutionary theory is
tested as ANU led research found high
level of DNA swapping among
rock-wallaby species, despite major
differences in shape and number of
chromosomes...read
media release
6 October
- The second round of the 2014
Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage
Release provides four exploration
permits representing $297 million in
new investments...read
announcements
6
October - Australian researchers have
taken a crucial step towards quantum
computing by demonstrating a central
component of a quantum computer, a
two-qubit logic gate, in silicon...read
media release
6
October - The US Department of Defense
will fund Australian research aimed at
therapeutic nerve stimulation through
bionic technology for the treatment of
inflammatory bowel diseases...read
media release
6
October - Australian resarchers (QLD
and UWA) have found that some corals
have an in-built protective mechanism
to cope with high fluctations in ocean
pH...read
media release
1 October
- Sky Muster, the first of the NBN's
two communication satellites, has
launched...read
media release
1
October - NSW based company Dyesol is
taking steps to commercialise its
perovskite solar cell technology,
supported with $449,000 from the
Australian Renewable Energy Agency
(ARENA)...read
media release
1 October
- The NHMRC and the US National
Institutes of Health (NIH) have opened
a joint funding round as part as part
of the United States Brain Research
through Advancing Innovative
Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)
Initiative...read
announcement
1
October - UNSW researchers have used a
new water-tracing technology in the
Sydney Basin to determine how
groundwater moves in the different
layers of rock below the surface...read
media release
29 September - ARENA announced that
Australia's first commercial diesel
displacement solar plant commenced
operations...read
media release
25 September - Researchers at the
ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent
Bio-Nano Science and Technology have
developed a delivery system that
releases a drug directly to the back
of the eye to target macular
degeneration...read
media release
25 September - An 11-year search
performed with CSIRO s Parkes
telescope has shown that a background
of waves expected under Einstein's
general theory of relativity is
missing, casting doubt on our
understanding of galaxies and black
holes...read
media release
24 September - A new ARC Research
Hub focused on improving the
profitability and productivity of
Australia s mining industry has
officially launched in Tasmania...read
announcement
23 September - Monash and Swinburne
University researchers have developed
an ultrathin graphene oxide optical
lens for next-gen devices...read
media release
23 September - Round 2 of the Rural
Research and Development for Profit
Programme is now open for
applications. It will provide grants
worth in total $50 million...read
media release
23 September - University of
Queensland research has established
life-long positive effects of
breastfeeding...read
media release
22 September - University of
Adelaide researchers describe in Plos
One the role played by a gene
in suppressing the development of
cancer...media
release
22 September - Sixteen Australian
medical researchers have been honoured
at the annual National Health and
Medical Research Council Research
Excellence Awards...read
media release
22 September - El Ni?o and La Ni?a
wheather patterns will drive coastal
erosion and flooding along Pacific
coastal regions including Australia
and New Zealand, regardless of rising
sea-levels, Australian-led research
shows...read
media release
21 September - The CEO of the
Science and Technology Australia,
Catriona Jackson, has welcomed the
Government's new focus on STEM...read
media release
18 September - IP Australia has
released a summary of the Global
Innovation Index 2015, which was
launched on 17 September...read
media release
17 September - Research co-led by
RMIT is paving the way to ultra-secure
telecommunications by creating photon
pairs that fit on a tiny computer
chip...read
media release
16 September - Thirty two
organisations are participating in the
Science in Australia Gender Equity
(SAGE) pilot, a partnership between
ATSE and AAS...read
about the program
16 September - A collection of red
dwarf stars close to our solar system,
discovered by Astronomers at the ANU
and the UNSW Canberra, could offer a
rare glimpse into planet formation...read
media release
15 September - Australian
researchers have shown how leukemia
cells become resistant to one of the
most promising new therapies to have
emerged in the past decade, the BET
inhibitors...read
Nature abstract
15 September - Scientists from the
ANU have discovered world's longest
known chain of continental volcanoes,
running 2,000 kilometres across
Australia...read
media release
15 September - A new ABARES' report
forecasts that in 2015-16 gross value
of Australia's farm production will
increase by 8% to around $57
billion...read
media release
14 September - Quensland University
researchers have found that height and
body mass index between Europeans have
a genetic basis...read
Nature media release
14 September - ANU was ranked 19th
among the universities in the world...read
media release
14 September - Einstein's theory
that the speed of light is the same in
all directions was put to the test by
researchers from University of
Australia...read
media release
14 September - The Australian
Government's Entrepreneurs Programme
awarded grants worth a total of $14
million to 24 Australian companies...read
announcement
14 September - A collaboration
between CSIRO and Chevron will use the
RV Investigator marine research vessel
to investigate unexplored deepwater
regions in the Great Australian
Bight...read
announcement
14 September - Round 2 of the DSTO's
Capability and Technology Demonstrator
(CTD) Program will provide $14.2
million in funding to seven Australian
projects...read
media release
14 September - The Water Amendment
Bill 2015 has passed the Senate. The
bill includes a 1500 gigalitre (GL)
cap in the buyback of environmental
water as part of the Murray Darling
Basin Plan...read
announcement
11 September - In a world-first, a
3D printed titanium sternum and rib
implant created in Melbourne was
implanted into a Spanish cancer
patient...read
media release
11 September - A large international
study, led by the University of
Melbourne, has identified high blood
pressure as top health risk in
Australia, followed by smoking and
obesity...read
media release
The ARC Research Hub for genetic
diversity and molecular breeding for
wheat in a hot and dry climate was
officially launched...read
announcement
10 September - A new Australian IP
Toolkit for Collaboration has been
released to drive better commercial
returns from public research...read
media release
10 September - A new paper in Science,
co-authored by the Antarctic
Climate & Ecosystems CRC,
shows that the carbon sink capacity of
the Southern Ocean has reinvigorated
and is again absorbing more CO2...read
the media release
9 SeptemberType-1 diabetes projects
awarded grants worth a total of $14
million were announced as part of the
$35 million ARC Special Research
Initiative for Type 1 Juvenile
Diabetes...read
announcement
9 September - The Australian
Renewable Energy Agency's $100 million
Large-scale solar projects grant
scheme is now open, providing up to
$30 million for major solar PV
projects. It is complemented by a $250
million financing programme from the
Clean Energy Finance Corporation...read
the media release
9 September - The University of
Melbourne announced its participation
in the UN's Global Forest Resources
Assessment (GFRA) 2015 released this
week, which shows that the globe's
forest have shrunk by 3% since 1990...read
media release
9 September - The Australian
Government announced a new partnership
agreement to support science
engagement activities in the ACT over
the next four years...read
announcement
7 September - Applications using the
Australian Government's NationalMap
were on show at the GovHack
2015 awards. read
media release
4 September - New Australian Bureau
of Statistcs data show that
Australia's expenditure on R&D
increased by 6% between 2011-12 and
2013-14, but decreased as a proportion
of GDP, down to 2.12%. Australia's
business expenditure on R&D (BERD)
as a proportion of GDP continued to
decline...read
the report
3 September - The NHMRC has awarded
grants worth a total of $5.8 million
to Australian researchers engaged in
solving global health problems...read
announcement
3 September - ANSTO research has led
to the first in vitro model
of the outer membrane of the bacteria
Escherichia coli (E.coli), a
potential tool for the development of
new antibiotics and other drugs...read
media release
2 September - Industry and Science
Minister Ian Macfarlane has opened
Whitehaven Coal Limited's $767 million
Maules Creek Coal Mine in
North-Western NSW. The mine became
commercial 1 July, with a potential
production capacity of six million
tonnes of coal per year...read
announcement
2 September - The Australian
Government is calling for submissions
on the proposed rules and regulations
for the Emissions Reduction Fund
safeguard mechanism...read
announcement
2 September - Curtin University and
the Indian School of Mines have agreed
to establish and operate the
Australia-India Joint Research Centre
for Coal and Energy Technology...read
press release
2 September - Research led by the
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute has
overturned the believe that childhood
coeliac disease differs from the
condition in adults. Thus, coeliac
disease therapies in development for
adults, including one based on WEHI
research, could also work in
children...read
press release
2 September - When it comes to
breeding, seahorses have a lot in
common with humans, according to
research from the University of
Sydney...read
media release
1 September - In mice a particular
group of brain cells plays an
important role in contolling anxiety,
researchers including from the
University of Queensland reveal Nature
Neuroscience...read
paper summary
1 September - Researchers from the
CSIRO and the Imperial College London
have revealed that almost 60% of
seabird species (almost 60%) and
around 80% of individual birds have
plastic in their gut...read
media release
1 September - University of Western
Australia's Ocean Institute has
participated in a study showing that
increasing levels of carbon dioxide
boosts plankton growth in the Arctic
Ocean, but this effect is limited when
ocean temperatures rise above six
degrees...read
the paper summary
31 August - The Australian
Government's new $25 million Carbon
Capture and Storage (CCS) Research
Development and Demonstration Fund is
to drive the advancement of carbon
capture and storage technologies...read
press release
Australia s energy productivity
rose by 4 per cent in 2013 14,
according to the 2015 edition of the
Australian Energy Statistics...read
media release
28 August - CSIRO's Digital
Productivity flagship and NICTA will
merge to a new entity called Data61...read
media release
26 August - The Western Australian
Government has announced a $22.1
million Agricultural Sciences Research
and Development Fund...read
announcement
25 August - The Australian
Government has agreed to implement
changes in the legislative framework
for managing Australia's spectrum as
recommended in the recent the Spectrum
Review...read
announcement.
25 August - The Productivity
Commission will conduct an inquiry
into Australia's intellectual property
arrangements...read
IP Australia's media release
25 August - Researchers at The
Australian National University and The
University of Sydney have developed a
world-first radio-tracking drone to
locate radio-tagged wildlife...read
media release
25 August - Warming oceans will
cause profound changes in the global
distribution of species, according to
a study co-authored by Australian
scientists in Nature Climate Change...read
media release and author
commentary in The
Conversation
25 August - The CSIRO is leading an
international initiative to save honey
bees and help secure crop
pollination...read
the media release
24 August - NBN Co has released its
2016 Corporate Plan...read
media release
24 August - A small startup in
Adelaide, which offers a tech-enabled
platform for freelance accountants, is
now branching out into the US...read
media release
23 August - New facilities at the
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
(IITB)-Monash Research Academy
launched in Mumbai, India...read
media release
Professor Mark Cassidy was announced
WA 2015 Scientist of the Year at the
2015 Premier's Science Awards...read
announcement
21 August - The Victorian Government
has released its Renewable Energy
Roadmap, aimed at accelerating
the development of the state's
renewable energy capacity...read
media release
21 August - The Queensland
Government has announced a new Advance
Queensland Women s Academic Fund,
which will allow female researchers to
employ a research assistance during
their maternity leave...read
announcement
21 August - Australia's emissions
have fallen to their lowest level for
a single quarter in 10 years because
of decreases in emissions from
electricity and agriculture
(reflecting lower cattle numbers),
according to the Department of the
Environment's latest quarterly update
of the National Greenhouse Gas
Inventory. However, this was partially
offset by increases in stationary
energy, transport, fugitive emissions
and industrial processes and product
use...read
the update
21 August - Three new NHMRC grants
together worth $5 million were awarded
to support global research into type 2
diabetes as part of the Global
Alliance for Chronic Diseases
(GACD)...read
media release
21 August - Scientists from the
Defence Science and Technology Group
have developed a unique computer
security device that provides
protection against cyber intrusion...read
media release
20 August - Melbourne's tech
start-up STAT Innovations has won the
$40,000 top prize at Victoria's
MedTech's Got Talent entrepreneurship
challenge...read
announcement
19 August - The QLD Government has
announced thirty recipients of 2015
Peter Doherty Awards...read
announcement
19 August - The NSW Government has
announced 17 recipients of the 2015
Cancer Institute NSW Research
Equipment Grants...read
announcement
14 August - Victoria's medical
researchers honoured at the State's
2015 Premier s Award for Health and
Medical Research...read
announcement
14 August - Tax experts from Michael
Johnson Associate provide an update on
a proposal to further reduce the
R&D Tax Incentive currently before
the Senate...read
the update
13 August- Professor Craig Simmons
from Flinders University has been
named South Australian Scientist of
the Year 2015...read
announcement
13 August - Led by the University of
Melbourne, new research on
Toxoplasmosis reveals a unique feeding
behaviour that may provide new
potential drug targets...read
the media release
13 August - The National Science and
Technology Centre and Samsung
Electronics Australia have launched a
technology partnership to support
Australia's future inventors,
technologists and entrepreneurs...read
announcement
13 August - The first of two new nbn
satellites will 'set sail' on 1
October 2015 to provide Australian
remote areas with high-speed
broadband...read
announcement
12 August - Legislation for the
establishment of the Medical Research
Future Fund has passed the Senate...read
announcement
12 August - The National
Marine Science Committee
has released its National Marine
Science Plan 2015-2025 - Driving the
development of Australia's blue
economy...read
announcement
11 August - Complementing
Australia's 2030 emissions reduction
target, the National Energy
Productivity Plan released by the
Australian Government sets a target of
improving energy productivity by 40%
by 2030...read
announcement
11 August - The Australian
Government has announced
greenhouse gas emissions targets for
Australia of 26% to 28% below 2005
levels by 2030...read
announcement
11 August - The Australian and NSW
Governments will invest $3 million in
a strategic research alliance with
CSIRO and industry targeting onshore
gas developments...read
announcement
11 August - With the energy found
within a large portion of our universe
fading, an international team of
scientists is predicting its slow
death...read
media release
11 August - A channel for potassium
ions presents a new drug target to
halt the growth of brain tumours,
according to a paper in Nature
Neuroscience co-authored by
Australian scientists...read
the paper abstract
11- August - An Australian led study
published in Nature Physics
used puffed rice cereal to explain the
movement and crushing of porous
materials when compressed...read
media release
11 August - A study of high-CO2
marine environments close to volcanic
ocean vents, reported in Nature
Climate Change by Australian
scientists, provides further evidence
that projected increases in ocean
acidification will potentially
devastate marine habitats and
ecosystems in ocean regions with
milder temperatures...read
media release
7 August - Exports from Australia's
international education services
sector reached a record high of $18.1
billion in 2014-15, according to
preliminary ABS data...read
media release
7 August - The Australian Government
has announced six Dementia Research
Team Grants worth a total of $35.6
million...read
announcement
6 August - The Australian
Renewable Energy Agency
will support Ergon Energy Queensland
in a trial of residential solar PV and
battery storage systems...read
media release
6 August - A study from the Edith
Cowan University indicates
a strong link between symptoms of
depression and cognitive decline...read
the media release
5 August - Farmers and irrigators in
southern New South Wales will receive
a total of $260 million to improve
on-farm irrigation efficiencies...read
media release
4 August - Ahead of the release of
its Defence White Paper later this
year, the Australian
Government announced it
will bring forward major naval
shipbuilding projects, committing to
invest $89 billion over the next 20
years in ships and submarines for the
Navy...
4 August - New studies by
international teams of researchers,
including from Australia, suggests
that the removal of atmospheric carbon
dioxide through current technologies
will not be able to return the planet
to preindustrial levels...read
media release
3 August - The $60 million Next
Generation Manufacturing Investment
Programme, a component of
the Australian Government's
$155 million Growth Fund,
has awarded 15 grants worth $28
million to South Australian business.
The grants are expected to leverage a
total of more than $73.3 million...read
media release
3 August - the Australian
Government will invest more
than $17.6 million in nine Australian
automotive component manufacturers...read
media release
3 August - Eight Universities in
Victoria and NSW will partner with AMSI
Intern in the placement of
over 130 postgraduate students into
industry..read
media release
31 July - An international team of
researchers including the University
of Adelaide have unlocked
the genetic key in barley that led to
the start of cropping human
agriculture...read
media release
31 July - A shorter form of
beta-Amyloid, a copper-binding protein
involved in the progression of
Alzheimer's disease, binds copper even
stronger than its longer version but
is actually beneficial to the brain,
according to research led by the University
of Melbourne...read
media release
30 July - The CSIRO Board
issued a statement in response to a
media article about CSIRO CEO Dr
Larry Marshall's
prior involvement with failed
technology company Arasor...read
media release
30 July - An international team of
scientists, including from the University
of Melbourne, will drill
deep into the seabed off the coast of
Western Australia to gain valuable
insight into our climate future...read
media release
30 July - The Defence Science and
Technology Group (DSTG, formerly the
Defence Science and Technology
Organisation) has developed a simple
lightweight exoskeleton applicable for
the carriage of heavy loads...read
media release
30 July - The NHMRC has published
its list of this year's Ten of the
Best Research Projects it has
funded...read
media release
30 July - Brisbane astrobiologist
and co-leader of NASA's Mars 2020 has
warned that Australia's limited
involvement in space exploration
belied the nation's potential
capability...read
media release
30 July - The 23rd Anual Australian
American Leadership Dialogue,
beginning next week in Melbourne, will
this time also focus on STEM, cyber,
innovation and collaborative research,
as well as the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP)...read
media release
29 July - The Australian
National University (ANU)
was chosen as the new host of the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Australia
Office...read
media release
A report by Newport
Consulting suggests the
mining sector is adjusting to future
conditions...read
media release
29 July - Smart Flexibility,
an international exhibition presenting
projects on advanced materials and
techologies is running until 9 August
at RMIT as part of
the Design for Impact Festival...read
media release
29 July - Researchers at
CSIRO and the University
of Adelaide have developed
a way for a more rapid and cheaper
clean up of contaminants in industrial
waste using sponge-like crystals... read
media release
29 July - Researchers from Griffith
University have discovered
that Haemophilus influenza, a
bacterial pathogen commonly causing
middle ear infections in children
(oitis media), can switch between two
different cell types, evading
immunological control...read
media release
29 July - Adelaide University
researcher discovered that the stress
response of plants produce uses
similar chemical and electrical
signals to animals...read
media release
28 July - The Australian
Science Media Center
launched the Scimex Multimedia Hub, a
component of its recently opened
Science Media Exchange ... read
media release
28 July - Cyber threat to Australian
organisations is real and continues to
grow, according to the first ever
unclassified cyber security threat
report by the Australian
Cyber Security Centre...read
media release
28 July - An Adelaide
University led study has
produced a natural sunscreen from fish
slime, algae and crustacean shells...read
media release
27 July - The Australian
Nuclear Science and Technology
Organisation has launched
its new Electron Microscopy
Facility...read
media release
27 July - The Rural
Industries Research and Development
Corporation (RIRDC) is
about to release a series of reports
on Australian agriculture
27 July - Swinburne
University astronomers have
found ancient star clusters formed in
two distinct epochs...read
media release
27 July - Scientists from the Australian
National University have
discovered how disease triggers the
rice plant's immune...read
media release
24 July - Medicines Australia has
published a 'facts book' on key
statistics and trends in the global
medicines industry indicating that the
global market for medicines and
vaccines is set to double over the
next decade, with much of the growth
coming from Asia...read
media release
23 July - Australian aerospace
company TAE will
commercialise CSIRO
s Guardian Mentor Remote (GMR)
wearable technology system, which can
remotely connect technicians with
aviation experts from around the
world...read
media release
23 July - CSIRO has developed a
masterplan to improve Australia's
record in innovation...read
media release
22 July - The Australian
Academy of Science 2015 Theo
Murphy High Flyers Think Tank,
The stem cell revolution ,
held in Sydney from 22 to 24 July,
aims to build a roadmap for the future
of stem cell science in Australia...read
media release
22 July - The new $48.4 million National
Geosequestration Laboratory
(NGL) has officially opened in
Perth...read
media release
The CSIRO and
internet investor Yuri Milner have
signed an agreement for the use of the
Parkes radio telescope in the search
for extraterrestrial life...read
media release
21 July - The AMIRA Roadmap
for Exploration Cover was
launched to improve Australia's future
exploration performance of non-ferrous
minerals...read
media release
21 July - The Rail
Manufacturing CRC was
launched in Dandenong, Victoria...read
media release
21 July - Accelerating
Commercialisation, a component of the
Australian Government's
Entrepreneurs' Programme
is offering grants worth $5.1
million...read
media release
October 2020 - Industrial future: Australia's manufacturing future may be linked to a new technology revolution: Industry 4.0
...read ARDR story
July 2020 - Hydrogen in sight: The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has shortlisted seven companies in the first stage of its $70 million hydrogen funding round
...read ARDR story
July 2020 - Money for med tech
: The Medical Research Future Fund will invest $47 million in diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
...read ARDR story
June 2020 - Linked up: the 2019 round of Linkage Projects grants has awarded $78 million to 77 research partnerships
...read ARDR story
May 2020 - Intangible benefits: There is a lot more to innovation in business than R&D, according to Innovation and Science Australia
...read ARDR story
May 2020 - Treasures of the sea: Seaweed could emerge as a major industry in Australia
...read ARDR story
May 2020 - Cool plans: Australian Antarctic science has received a $56 million boost, and a visionary strategy.
...read ARDR story
April 2020 - Windows with a spark: new Australian technology is set to convert windows in buildings into mini-solar power plants
...read ARDR story
April 2020 - Impact all the way: the government is funding five new Cooperative Research Centres
...read ARDR story
April 2020 - Australian venture capital: while venture capital investments in Australian firms is rising, but capital available to managers of Australian venture capital funds may have peaked
...read ARDR story
March 2020 - Tech focused index launched: the new S&P/ASX All Technology Index will provide Australian technology firms with greater market visibility
...read ARDR story
March 2020 - Drying up potential: research from the CSIRO highlights the challenge climate change will impose on food production
...read ARDR story
October 2019 - Missing in action: Business R&D: business investment in R&D continues its decline
...read ARDR story
October 2019 - Positive outlook: Record revenues followed by rising investments in exploration signal the strength of Australia's mining industry
...read ARDR story
September 2019 - Directed from heaven: An independent cost-benefit analysis has confirmed that a new satellite positioning system across the Australasian region will provide major benefits for farmers, miners and other sectors of the economy.
...read ARDR story
September 2019 - Choking outlook: India could drive a new boom in Australian thermal coal exports, according to a new report
...read ARDR story
August 2019 - Critical funding: The seventh round of Cooperative Research Centres Projects was to provide $20 million to research targeting critical minerals. However, the awarded funding has fallen short by half.
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Anticipated impact: A new research alliance will consider how future advances in science and technology may affect society.
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Saving coal: Construction has begun on Australia's world-first pilot to convert 'dirty' coal into 'clean' hydrogen fuel for Japan's 'hydrogen society'.
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Unsupportive environment: An Australian medical research breakthrough funded by the US has raised questions about the lack of homegrown support
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Linkages matter: But as the ARC's summary report of its 2018 Linkage Projects reveal, so does culture and gender
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Blame the modem: The National Broadband Network gets a bad rap of late, but recent research suggests that performance issues are often due to the type of modems consumers use blame
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Golden future (as coal declines): For now, all is good in mining land Australia, with iron ore and LNG booming, while gold is about to overtake thermal coal as our fourth largest commodity export
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Fired up: The threat of flammable materials used in construction will be addressed by a new ARC funded centre launched at the University of New South Wales.
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Walking on water: Could hydrogen be Australia's new LNG? It's time for you to comment
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Taking the heat: Will new breeds of corals help protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change?
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Riding the (radio) wave: Australian-led research pinpointing a fast 'one-off' burst of radio waves to a galaxy billions of years away highlights the power of the Pathfinder radio telescope.
...read ARDR story
July 2019 - Computing vaccine: Computer algorithms may change the way we live in future, but are vulnerable to malicious attacks. A new 'vaccination' technique developed by the CSIRO could help keeping the threat at bay.
...read ARDR story
June 2019 - Stemming the tide: A new roadmap for Australian dementia research has been released
...read ARDR story
June 2019 - Skills for orbit: A new training centre supporting Australia's growing space industry has been launched at the University of New South Wales
...read ARDR story
June 2019 - Medical frontiers: The Medical Research Future Fund's Frontiers Initiative pushes for new medical horizons
...read ARDR story
June 2019 - Liquid treasure: Shell's groundbreaking Prelude Floating LNG project is Austalia's latest gas success story. But could a new global LNG investment boom this time pass Australia by?
...read ARDR story
June 2019 - Buzzing benefits: A new report highlights the commercial potential of propolis for Australian beekeepers
...read ARDR story
June 2019 - Feeding the world: North Queensland is set to benefit from increasing global demand for food, a new report reveals
...read ARDR story
June 2019 - Please, eat! - Eating disorder research applying digital solutions will receive $5 million from the $125 Million Mind Mission
...read ARDR story
June 2019 - Painful uncertainty: A report funded AgricuFutures Australia has analysed how global trade uncertainty may impact on the Australian agricultural sector.
...read ARDR story
June 2019 - ABARES news: While Australia's forestry sector enjoys record plantation harvests, farmers are struggling in recovering crop production after big falls last year.
...read ARDR story
May 2019 - Few new brooms: Familiar faces in the government's new ministry will lead Australian innovation policy development
...read ARDR story
May 2019 - Kilogram reborn: Major global units of measurement, including the kilogram, have been redefined, also with the help of Australian researchers.
...read ARDR story
May 2019 - Leading the way to AI: Concerns about artificial intelligence have led to new OECD guidelines
...read ARDR story
May 2019 - Gas future: Hydrogen could save natural gas a place in a net-zero emissions economy, a new report suggests
...read ARDR story
May 2019 - Renewable jobs bonanza?: Recent strong growth in employment across the renewables sector mirrors growth in capacity. But that is only part of the story.
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Charging investment: Australia's growing battery industry is the target of a new Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre headquartered in Perth
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Renewable boom: The renewable energy sector is well on target to deliver and exceed the Renewable Energy Target
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Hitting the mark?: the ARC's implementation of the National and Science Priorities is under review
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Digging out a future: Australia's recently released National Resources Statement and Critical Minerals Strategy open the next chapter of the nation's continued economic love affair with commodities.
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Farming for the future: Sustainable farming through better dams is the aim of a project funded with $5.9 million from the Australian Government
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Strategy to space: Australia's new civil space strategy is to drive growth of the sector
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Engaged impact: Complementing the ERA 2018 report, the ARC has released the first national assessment of how university researchers engage and create impact
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Bright picture: the ARC has released the ERA 2018 evaluation of university research
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Computed defence: a new $68 million Defence High Performance Computing Centre will boost the nation's weapon industry
...read ARDR story
April 2019 - Energetic markets: ARENA will contribute $10 million to the rollout of GreenSync's distributed energy platform
...read ARDR story
March 2019 - Breakthrough investments: $41 million from the Biotechnology Translation Fund will support three early-stage biotech breakthroughs
...read ARDR story
March 2019 - Go girls: Australia is making an effort towards greater gender equity in science
...read ARDR story
March 2019 - The sky is the limit: Recent developments underpin Australia is heading for space
...read ARDR story
March 2019 - Astronomical benefits: News from Australia's involvement in the Square Kilometre Project
...read ARDR story
March 2019 - Quantum magic: Australia remains in the quantum race, with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) having officially launched its next seven years of operations.
...read ARDR story
February 2019 - Cool head: Kim Ellis has replaced Dr Nick Gales as director of the Australian Antarctic Division
...read ARDR story
January 2019 - Mixed performance: Australia fails in reducing carbon emissions, but makes progress in protecting biodiversity, a new OECD report finds
...read ARDR story
January 2019 - National research treasures: Six national research facilities will receive major upgrades
...read ARDR story
January 2019 - Devilish linkages: A study to help saving the Tasmanian Devil is among 35 projects awarded over $15 million in the 2018 Linkage Projects grant round to date
...read ARDR story
January 2019 - Defensive money: Australia is pushing to become a top-ten global defence exporter
...read ARDR story
January 2019 - Defensive appointment: Professor Tanya Monro will be Australia's new Chief Defence Scientist
...read ARDR story
January 2019 - Protective funding: A new round of grants under the National Environment Research Program has been announced
...read ARDR story
December 2018 - Solar oil pumps: Australia's fossil fuel industry is going green
...read ARDR story
December 2018 - Living off the land: Resources and energy exports are set to earn a record $264 billion, as Australia becomes the world's largest exporter of liquid natural gas
...read ARDR story
December 2018 - Space cases: Australia's drive into space gains momentum, as recent developments highlight
...read ARDR story
December 2018 (updated February 2019) - Cooperative delights: The sixth round of Cooperative Research Centres Projects grants has delivered $40 million to a wide range of industry-led projects, while the program's next funding round will prioritise critical minerals
...read ARDR story
December 2018 - More piggies to the market: Another round of Accelerating Commercialisation grants has awarded 12 Australian innovators grants a total of $4.9 million.
...read ARDR story
December 2018 - Innovative chair: Andrew Stevens has been appointed as new chair of Innovation and Science Australia
...read ARDR story
November 2018 - Save cyber: Australian businesses need to fully embed cyber security in their operations to remain competitive, a new industry roadmap finds
...read ARDR story
November 2018 - Export potential: Andrew Forrest's Fortescue is investing in a new hydrogen membrane filter technology developed by CSIRO
...read ARDR story
November 2018 - New body of wisdom: the Government has announced a new National Science and Technology Council
...read ARDR story
November 2018 - Shrinking the digital gap: Global company Infosys will establish three digital innovation hubs in Australia
...read ARDR story
November 2018 - Making space stuff: Australia enters a new era of excellence in astronomy instrumentation with the official launch of the Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) capability at Macquarie University
...read ARDR story
November 2018 - Global players: New Bridging Grants will help Australians to form innovative global partnerships
...read ARDR story
August 2018 - Foreshadowed vulnerability: Research including from Australia has discovered a major new vulnerability with Intel computer chips
...read ARDR story
August 2018 - Déjà vu, anyone?: Almost non-destructable and potentially harmful, PFAS are a group of man-made compounds that were once widely used and now turn into an environmental headache.
...read ARDR story
August 2018 - Research manna: The ARC's second major announcement of 2018 competitive research grants delivers fellowships and funding for collaborative research and training hubs
...read ARDR story
August 2018 - Efficient separation: A new ARC research hub at Monash University aims to make separation processes used across major industries more energy efficient
...read ARDR story
August 2018 - Healthy top up: Recent funding announcements demonstrate the growing impact of the Medical Research Futures Fund and the Biotechnology Translation Fund
...read ARDR story
August 2018 - New money, old system: The NHMRC is delivering grants for health and medical research while preparing for its new funding program starting later this year
...read ARDR story
July 2018 - Mosquito wars: New strategies developed in Australia promise effective control of viral tropical diseases such as Dengue fever
...read ARDR story
July 2018 - One direction: down: For all the rhetorik of supporting innovation, Australian governments spend less and less on R&D
...read ARDR story
July 2018 - Targeted reduction: Exposure draft legislation for proposed amendments to the R&D Tax Incentive has been released for public comment
...read ARDR story
July 2018 - Business as usual: Despite Government efforts to instill an innovation culture in Australian business, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggests not much is changing
...read ARDR story
July 2018 - Lift-off into space: Australia's first dedicated space agency has been launched
...read ARDR story
June 2018 - Digital Future: The release of the Digital Transformation Strategy at the end of this year is to bring access to government services into the 21st century
...read ARDR story
June 2018 - Piggies to the market: The latest round of Accelerating Commercialisation grants has been announced
...read ARDR story
June 2018- King Coal, again?: The Government is celebrating a resurgence of coal export earnings.
...read ARDR story
June 2018 - Fortune seeking: The second round of the Junior Minerals Exploration Incentive was over-subscribed, which may indicate an upswing in confidence among Australian minerals explorers, the Government says.
...read ARDR story
June 2018 - Turning the corner?: A new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicates some new optimism in Australian mineral and petroleum exploration
...read ARDR story
June 2018 - Electric boom: Electric vehicles are about to take off in Australia, and will reach price parity with conventional cars over the next decade, according to a new report from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency
...read ARDR story
June 2018 - Primed to collaborate: A new round of Priming Grants will help Australian entrepreneurs to link up with international partners
...read ARDR story
June 2018 - Icy era of research: A new Australian Antarctic Science Council will be the first step in implementing recommendations from a review into the efficiency of Australia's Antarctic Science Program.
...read ARDR story
May 2018 - Plan for the toolkit: The Australian Government has released a $2.2 billion Research Infrastructure Investment Plan
...read ARDR story
May 2018 - Strong endorsement: The Australian Government has released its response to Innovation and Science Australia's strategic innovation plan
...read ARDR story
May 2018 - Floating recovery: Transborders Energy found government support for its project to recover 'stranded' offshore gas resource
...read ARDR story
March 2018 - First of many: Large-scale solar is catching up with wind, as the first of 12 ARENA funded projects is now completed.
...read ARDR story
March 2018 - Printed destruction: A new collaborative project aims to 3-D print technology for the production of energetic materials, such as explosives, for Defence and industry
...read ARDR story
March 2018 - Downloaded future: a government report forecasts Australia's internet use over the next decade
...read ARDR story
February 2018 - Pulp non-fiction: a new national forestry innovation hub has launched in South Australia
...read ARDR story
February 2018 - Linking up continuously: With 28 new ARC Linkage projects announced in February, the 2017 funding round has delivered $11 million for 56 projects to date. However, few universities capture the lion share
...read ARDR story
February 2018 - Fusion promise: the first sustainable production of fusion energy is closing in to become a reality
...read ARDR story
February 2018 - Feasible mega-storage: beyond Snowy 2.0, pumped hydro is set to become a major option for storing renewable energy.
...read ARDR story
February 2018 - Speeding to market: A new round of Accelerating Commercialisation grants is offering $5.4 million to 12 Australian businesses
...read ARDR story
February 2018 - Launched to excellence: Five of the nine ARC Centres of Excellence funded in 2015 have officially opened
...read ARDR story
January 2018 - Doom or boom made in China: The outlook for Australia's resources and energy sector is a mixed picture, and continures to largely dependent on China
...read ARDR story
January 2018 - Make a difference, please: With the recently completed pilot of the ARC's Engagement and Impact Assessment (EIA) continues the push for cultural change within our universities..
...read ARDR story
January 2018 - Healthy dollars: a roundup of 2017 health and medical research funding.
...read ARDR story
January 2018 - Money makes the lab go round: 2018 ARC funding of non-medical research across six major competitive grant schemes
...read ARDR story
8 December 2017 - R&D Tax Incentive outdated?: Bill Ferris, the chair of Innovation and Science Australia, has questioned the effectiveness of Australia's prime vehicle for stimulating R&D in business.
...read ARDR story
December 2017 - Sunny alternatives: The Australian Renewable Energy Agency is investing $29.2 million in 20 solar photovoltaic (PV) research projects, including the development of Perovskite-silicon tandem cells.
...read ARDR story
8 December 2017- Switched On: CSIRO's ON Accelerator will help another ten Australian research teams to commercialise their ideas
...read ARDR story
8 December 2017 - Wonder stuff: The commercial potential of graphene is the focus of a new ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub launched in Adelaide
...read ARDR story
December 2017 - Storage potential: 22,000 potential pumped hydro energy storage sites for renewable energyhave been identified across Australia
...read ARDR story
25 September 2017 - Space dedication: A national space agency is to help Australia taking part in a global race into space
...read ARDR story
September 2017 - Found in translation: In 2017, the new Biomedical Translation Fund (BTF) contributed $23.3 million towards the commercialisation of four new products from Australian biotechnology firms
...read ARDR story
July 2017 - Star struck: A $129 million strategic partnership with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) provides Australian astronomers with access to major facilities in Chile
...read ARDR story
13 June 2017 - Risky money: Venture capital is on the rise in Australia, but not enough for an innovation leader, a new report finds
...read ARDR story
June 2017 - Volatile objectives: Australia is ramping up efforts to secure domestic gas supply
...read ARDR story
9 June 2017 - Fight for the Bight: When BP stepped back from explorations in the Great Australian Bight activist groups were celebrating - prematurely, as it turns out
...read ARDR story
25 May 2017 - NHMRC's liberating move:
Australia's prime funding body for
health and medical research undertakes
a major change in its grant program...read
ARDR story 
22 May 2017 - The lagging country: Australia's slow uptake of electric vehicles is to be boosted with a new industry-led body, and a grant for educating the public
...read ARDR story
15 May 2017 - Exploration for
the east: The
Government is boosting gas exploration
in the Bass Strait amid concerns about
declining production ...read
ARDR story
12 May 2017 - Prioritised
investments: A new
roadmap proposes a new framework for
future investments into Australia's
national research infrastructure.
...read
ARDR story 
3 May 2017 - Clean ambitions:
The latest auction results of the
Emissions Reduction Fund and a
progress report by the Clean Energy
Regulator provide a snapshot of
Australia's effort towards climate
change mitigation ...read
ARDR story
2 May 2017 - Let's meet: Priming
grants awarded under the Global
Connections Fund provide a path to
international collaborations...read
ARDR story
11 April 2017 - Manufactured
stagnation?: A new report
shows patent output in Australia's
advanced manufacturing sector is
much slower than across the rest of
the world ...read
ARDR story
20 April 2017 - Secure
opportunities: A new
strategy paper points to a bright
future for Australia's cyber
security sector ...read
ARDR story
10 April 2017 - Innovative
Investments: Grants worth
more than $16 million were awarded
to Australian innovators
commercialising new products or
collaborating with global partners
...read
ARDR story
24 April 2017 - Of
nuclear and renewables:
With Australia's dependence on coal
far from over, experts call to
reconsider the nuclear option.
Meanwhile another another
large-scale wind farm is going ahead...read
ARDR story
19 April 2017 - Science lovers:
Listen up, pollies, Australians are
backing publicly funded science
...read
ARDR story
19 April 2017 - Back in space:
An international mission has sent 28
nanosatellites into space, including
three made by Australian
universities ...read
ARDR story
10 April 2017 - Action for the
future: Australian
spatial industries do not yet
achieve their growth potential. A
new Action Plan is aims to change
that ...read
ARDR story
4 April 2017 - Bionic investment:
International investors are backing
Australia's bionic eye ...read
ARDR story
30 March 2017 - Still topping
the world: According to
the Fraser Institute's 2016 Annual
Survey of Mining Companies,
Australia is still the world's most
attractive region for mining
investment ...read
ARDR story
30 March 2017 - Stored sunshine:
With Manildra Solar there are now
eight projects funded under ARENA's
large-scale solar competitive round
going ahead, but its Lyon Group's $1
billion SA solar storage project
that takes the light ...read
ARDR story
22 March 2017 - Local discharge:
AGL's virtual power plant trial in
Adelaide is another step towards
decentralisised electricity
generation ...read
ARDR story
17 March 2017 - Blue riches:
According to the 2016 AIMS Index of
Marine Industry, Australia's 'Blue
Economy' continues to grow faster
than the national economy ...read
ARDR story
17 March 2017 - Innovative
Defence: The $730 million
Next Generation Technologies Fund
has launched ...read
ARDR story
15 March 2017 - Uphill Battle:
Australia needs to address six key
challenges to become an innovation
leader, says Bill Ferris, chair of
the Innovation and Science Australia
...read
ARDR story
14 March 2017 - Getting ready
for purchase: The first
round of the Business Research and
Innovation Initiative (BRII) will
support 20 SMEs developing targeted
products for government agencies
...read
ARDR story
7 March 2017 - New problem
solvers: Four new
Cooperative Research Centres will
target agriculture and transport
...read
ARDR story
27 February 2017 - Printed
revolution: In a
world-first, a patient has received
an Australian 3-D printed composite
sternum made of titanium and a
synthetic polymer, replacing bone,
cartilage and tissue with a single
prosthetic implant. ...read
ARDR story -->
23 February 2017 - My home, my
power plant: An online
marketplace for renewable energy,
the Decentralised Energy Exchange
project, aims to decentralise
Australia's power generation
...read
ARDR story
22 February 2017 - Safe Surf:
The Australian Government has
launched a new report on Cyber
security, and a new program
addressing Australia's potential
shortage in cyber security
professionals. ...read
ARDR story
25 February 2017 - Linked up:
$4.9 million for eleven new
collaborative projects bring the
total provided in the 2016 round of
Linkage grants to over $87 million
...read
ARDR story
25 February 2017 - Shared patent
attorneys: The patent
attorney profession is first under
unified regulation across the
trans-Tasman ...read
ARDR story
20 February 2017 - Disruptive
fibre: CSIRO and Deakin
researchers are now producing carbon
fibre from scratch ...read
ARDR story
20 February 2017 - Cooperative
north: The Government has
announced an early project funding
round by the CRC for Developing
Northern Australia ...read
ARDR story
20 February 2017 - Cautious
explorers: The mining
industry has all but lost its
appetite for petroleum exploration
in Australia ...read
ARDR story
14 February 2017 - Charging
potential: CSIRO's
UltraBattery set for large-scale
commercialisation in India ...read
ARDR story
7 February 2017 - Short-term
bucks for big potential:
The Corporative Research Centres
Projects scheme will support
seventeen industry-led projects with
high commercial potential. ...read
ARDR story
6 February 2017 - Defensive SA:
A new partnership will create a
centre for defence related research
networks in South Australia
...read
ARDR story
1 February 2017 - Power
struggles expedite storage:
ARENA and CEFC will together drive
the development of large-scale
renewable energy storage. ...read
ARDR story
1 February 2017 - Cheaper by
doing: Neoen's three new
solar plants in NSW highlight that
costs of large scale solar projects
are rapidly falling. ...read
ARDR story
30 January 2017 - Fast funding:
With the new continuous ARC Linkage
Projects scheme support can be found
throughout the year. ...read
ARDR story 
9 January 2017 - Out of luck?
Not yet...: Earnings from
resources and energy exports are set
to rise by 30% to a new record of
$204 billion in 2016-17. ...read
ARDR story
18 January 2017 - In and out:
Arthur Sinodinos replaces Greg Hunt
as Minister for Industry, Innovation
and Science ...read
ARDR story
16 January 2017 - Mobile
offerings: The 2017
auction of remaining 'digital
dividend' spectrum is open for
applications ...read
ARDR story
10 January 2017 - Shooting stars:
US technology accelerator Techstars
has chosen Adelaide as a launching
pad into the Asia-Pacific region
...read
ARDR story
21 December - Get it right
and get it early: An
Australian collaboration has
launched a new blood test for the
detection of bowel cancer, called
Colvera, in the US ...read
ARDR story
20 December - Caring
deal: The
Government's Mid-Year Economic and
Fiscal Outlook has allocated $100
million to Landcare Australia, the
outcome of a deal with the Greens
earlier in December. In turn the
Government is saving $224.7 million
over four years by terminating its
Green Army program. ...read
ARDR story -->
20 December - Farmed fish
on the rise: A new ABARES
report highlights the strength of
our aquaculture industry ...read
ARDR story
20 December - Reviewed
protection: The
Government has released the findings
of a Productivity Commission inquiry
into Australia's intellectual
property system ...read
ARDR story
15 December - Going for
gold: A parternship
between government, research and
industry has established
Adelaide-based company Chrysos
tocommercialise a new gold mining
technology developed by the CSIRO
...read
ARDR story
13 December - Grains follow
rains: A bumber crop
season is set to push the gross
value of Australia's farm production
to record heights. ...read
ARDR story
8 December - Blue sky
scratchers: A new edition
of ATSE's IN FOCUS series examines
Autralia's big future issues
...read
ARDR story
8 December - Silent night:
A new facility in Melbourne, the
result of a collaboration between
CSIRO and industry, will 3D print
customised anti-snoring devices
...read
ARDR story
6 December - One direction
trumps: CSIRO-led
research has opened up the use of
designer nanocrystals in advanced
applications ...read
ARDR story
5 December - Welcome to the
ride: Is there an end in
sight to the downward spiral of
Australian mining exploration?
...read
ARDR story
9 December - ON the road to
success: The third round
of CSIRO's ON accelerator will
fast-track the commercialisation of
ten Australian innovations ...read
ARDR story 
12 December - Proliferating
targets: Cancer
Australia's Priority-driven
Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme
has awarded $10.39 million to 28
cancer projects. ...read
ARDR story
8 December - Planning for
luck: Two projects under
the Australian Government's
Exploring for the Future program are
now underway ...read
ARDR story
5 December - A plan for
food: The Australian
Academy of Science seeks comments on
the final draft of its Decadal Plan
for Agricultural Sciences ...read
ARDR story
1 December - Lighting up
black spots: New mobile
infrastructure for the regions will
be delivered through a second round
of the Mobile Black Spot Program
...read
ARDR story
4 December - New innovation
catalyst: CSIRO has
launched the $200 million CSIRO
Innovation Fund ...read
ARDR story
2 December - Dollars for a
healthy future: The
National Health and Medical Research
Council has awarded 601 grants worth
more than $483 million ...read
ARDR story
30 November - Oz
innovation: more taking than
making: the 2016
Australian Innovation Systems Report
reveals no improvements in our
innovation system ...read
ARDR story
29 November - Agreed
concentration: A landmark
agreement will see CSIRO's heliostat
technology rolled out in China
...read
ARDR story
28 November - A future for
making things: CSIRO has
released a roadmap for Australia's
advanced manufacturing future
...read
ARDR story
25 November - Till (your)
death do us part: The
Great Barrier Reef - its bleaching
crisis, a progress report about the
"significant progress" in saving it,
and $45 million for a new reef
program. ...read
ARDR story
24 November - Auctioned
abatement:: The fourth
auction of the Emissions Reductions
Fund has awarded 47 projects
contracts worth $367 million
...read
ARDR story
18 November - Drip-fed to
the finish line: The
Government will secure the nbn with
a $19.5 million commercial loan.
...read
ARDR story
23 November - Navyl gazing:
BAE Systems received $4.9 million
for developing counter-surveillance
capability for the Royal Australian
Navy ...read
ARDR story
21 November - And does it
really matter?: Ahead of
implementing the university research
'Engagement and Impact Assessment'
system the ARC will conduct a pilot
starting in 2017 ...read
ARDR story
21 November - Everyone's a
scientist: Inspiring
Australia will provide $4.6 million
for Citizen Science projects
...read
ARDR story
19 November - Great
expectations: the
Australian Government has released a
new Statement of Expectations for
the CSIRO ...read
ARDR story
16 November - Going global
in Berlin: The fifth and
final Landing Pad has been
established in Berlin ...read
ARDR story
10 November - Fight back:
The National Antimicrobial
Resistance Strategy has now an
implementation plan ...read
ARDR story
17 November - Back to a
wooden future:
Australia's timber industry is
booming again ...read
ARDR story
9 November - Printed power:
A new partnership between CSIRO and
industry sets printed solar cells on
track to the market, ...read
ARDR story
15 November - Funding for
the future: The latest
round of Accelerating
Commercialisation grants delivers
$7.6 million to 22 Australian
businesses. ...read
ARDR story
7 November - Carbon vision:
ANU's renovated CTLab has officially
opened to support research in a
range of fields including the
storage of carbon ...read
ARDR story
3 November - Pumping up:
ARENA funded projects look into an
alternative to batteries for the
large-scale storage of renewable
energy: short-term off-river pumped
hydro energy storage (STORES) sites
...read
ARDR story
3 November - Spacecraft
trackers: The launch of
the second of two new antennas
completes NASA's $120 million
investment in the Canberra Deep
Space Communication Complex
...read
ARDR story
3 November - Here they
go...: The Australian
Government has announced grants to
support international research
exchange. ...read
ARDR story
4 November - Neighbourly
action: The Regional
Collaborations Program under the
National Innovation and Science
Agenda is open for applications
...read
ARDR story -->
29 October - Particle
buddies: Australian
particle physics research received a
boost through a collaboration with
the US Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory. ...read
ARDR story
28 October - Marine
protection: The world's
largest marine park will be
established in the Ross Sea off
Antarctica ...read
ARDR story
26 October - Warm concern:
The fourth, biennial State of the
Climate report has been released by
the CSIRO and the Bureau of
Meteorology ...read
ARDR story
26 October - Renewable
strength: As the
Australian Government is wavering in
its support for renewables, globally
clean energies have surpassed coal
as the largest source of electricity
generation ...read
ARDR story
24 October - Hubs for
legumes and carbon fibres:
Two new research hubs have been
launched at the University of Sydney
and Deakin University. ...read
ARDR story 
6 October - Space
connections: nbn's second
satellite, Sky Muster II, has been
launched. ...read
ARDR story
21 October - Mobile
a(u)ction: Changes in the
use of available frequency could
expand Australia's mobile broadband
capacity ...read
ARDR story
14 October - Cool
investment: A new $50
million research station on
Macquarie Island will become the
most advanced of its type in the
Southern Ocean. ...read
ARDR story
20 October - Great barriers
to reef survival: The
Great Barrier Reef Report Card 2015
highlights the challenges ahead
towards restoring the reef's heatlh
...read
ARDR story
10 October - Reforming
helpers: A new expert
panel is the next step towards
higher education reform. ...read
ARDR story
14 October - Windy
radiation: The Government
will provide $18 million for Kennedy
Energy Park, a hybrid project
combining wind and energy production
with battery storage and supply of
electricty into the national grid.
...read
ARDR story
5 October - Download frenzy:
New ABS data show strong increases
in download volumes in Australia
...read
ARDR story
28 September - Reef Rescue:
The first annual report for the Reef
2050 Plan has been released
...read
ARDR story
28 September - Innovation
lagger: The Global
Competitiveness Index 2016-17 report
confirms Australia's weak innovation
performance ...read
ARDR story
23 September - New ARC
player: Physicist Stephen
Buckman is commencing a new role as
executive director at the Australian
Research Council ...read
ARDR story
20 September - Quantum
vision: News around
Australia's quantum computing
research ...read
ARDR story
20 September - Crops on the
rise: According to
ABARES, the gross value of
Australian farm productions will
reach $58.4 billion in 2016-17
...read
ARDR story
21 September - And the
winner is...: The Times
Higher Education World University
Ranking has been released ...read
ARDR story
20 September - Looking for
blue skies while eying the market:
The CSIRO is strengthening its
frontier science, while also driving
research commercialisation ...read
ARDR story
13 September - Improving
research output: The
second volume of the State of
Australian University Research
2015–16 series confirms a positive
trajectory of Australian university
research ...read
ARDR story
8 September - O Solar Mio:
The Australian large-scale solar
capacity is set to be tripled
through 12 new ARENA funded projects
...read
ARDR story
5 September - Bleak outlook:
Australia's investment in mining
exploration continues to decline
...read
ARDR story
5 September - Balancing act:
New management plans for our marine
reserve system are in the making,
and the public is asked for input
...read
ARDR story
2 September - Clean seeds:
A new $10 million Clean Energy Seed
Fund will support 30-50 start-ups in
the clean energy space to grow an
become attractive for venture
capitalist investment. ...read
ARDR story
1 September - Top of the
crop: New chairs have
been appointed for the RIRDC, the
CRDC and the FRDC ...read
ARDR story
1 September - All for one:
The Government aims to repeal
current restrictions to media
ownership ...read
ARDR story
31 August - New Academy
leader: Anna-Maria Arabia
has been appointed chief executive
of the Australian Academy of Science
...read
ARDR story
31 August - And the winners
are: Outstanding
contributors to Australian science
were honoured with Eureka prizes
...read
ARDR story
25 August - Money for the
makers: The second round
of the Next Generation Manufacturing
Investment Program will provide
$31.6 million for manufacturing
firms in South Australia and
Victoria. ...read
ARDR story
25 August - Farming genius
support: The 2017 round
of the Science and Innovation Awards
for Young People in Agriculture,
Fisheries and Forestry will provide
grants worth up to $22,000.
Applications close 14 October 2016.
...read
announcement
19 August - XX factor:
A new government program designed to
entice more women into the world of
STEM and entrepreneurship is now
open for applications. ...read
ARDR story
19 August - Meeting the
challenge: The global
start-up accelerator program Bridge
to MassChallenge is open for
applications ...read
ARDR story
12 August - Make your luck
in the North: 28 new
offshore petroleum exploration
acreage areas are available for
bidding ...read
ARDR story
12 August - Catch it if you
can: The Australian
Government invests $23.7 million in
carbon capture and storage research
projects ...read
ARDR story
11 August - Stuff for the
north: The Northern
Australia Infrastructure Facility
has officially opened in Cairns
...read
ARDR story
9 August - STEMpede into
jobs - you wish!: The
Grattan Institute has concluded that
students choosing to study science
should better reconsider, but some
beg to differ ...read
ARDR story
4 August - New direction:
The Government announcement that
climate science will remain a
bedrock function of the CSIRO has
been welcomed by peak science bodies
...read
ARDR story
3 August - Dollar for
dollar: The Australian
Government has launched the $500
million Biomedical Translation Fund
...read
ARDR story
29 July - All in one:
ANU and CSIRO have opened their new
collaborative Centre for Genomics,
Metabolomics and Bioinformatics
...read
ARDR story
27 July - Renewable map
upgrade: The Australian
Renewable Energy Mapping
Infrastructure now features an
enhanced user interface ...read
ARDR story
27 July - Australian
capabilities upgrade: Ten
infrastructure projects will receive
an additional $16 million in NCRIS
funding, with $7 million
contributing to a major upgrade of
ANU's National Computational
Infrastructure ...read
ARDR story
26 July - Teaming up
against Hep C: The Burnet
Institute is collaborating with a
German company to deliver a novel
vaccine approach against hepatitis C
...read
ARDR story
22 July - Healthy
strategist: Dr Rob
Grenfell joins CSIRO as director of
Health and Biosecurity ...read
ARDR story
22 July - Going for growth:
The growth sector for the mining
equipment, technology and services
sector has completed a draft Sector
Competitiveness Plan ...read
ARDR story 
20 July - Mobile breathing:
Australian digital health company
ResApp Health has secured a
partnership with one of the most
prestigious health organisations in
the US ...read
ARDR story
20 July - How to keep it
going: Chief scientist Dr
Alan Finkel has released the the
National Research Infrastructure
Capability Issues Paper ...read
ARDR story
18 July - Strike against
stroke: The Interstroke
study, conducted in 32 countries
across the globe, has confirmed
hypertension is the greatest risk
factor for stroke - but the risk
varies between regions. ...read
ARDR story
18 July - Non-invasive
partnership with a spark:
Australian technology company
ImpediMed announced that US
Vanderbilt University will undertake
clinical tests of its bioimpedance
spectroscopy (BIS) technology.
...read
ARDR story
15 July - Roos going viral:
An ancient virus discovered in
marsupials could provide new tools
for the development of gene
therapies ...read
ARDR story
14 July - Losing streak:
The CSIRO has participated in the
most comprehensive quantification of
global biodiversity change to date.
...read
ARDR story
13 July - Genes shared with
a meal: The set of genes
contained in the bacteria we harbour
is shaped by cultural practices, and
this may also influence our health.
Australian researchers participated
in the US-led study published in
Nature. ...read
ARDR story
12 July - Memorable
progress: Technology from
Australian company Vaxine Pty Ltd is
used in a new vaccine approach
against Alzheimer's ...read
ARDR story
11 July - Not over yet:
There is no AIDS epidemic anymore in
Australia, but still a 1000 people
get infected with HIV each year
...read
ARDR story
8 July - Losing cause:
It's not just the Great Barrier Reef
- massive kelp forest death occured
along Western Australia's coastline
following a heatwave in 2011.
...read
ARDR story
7 July - Back to black in
SA: The SA Government has
handed down its 2016-17 budget
...read
ARDR story
30 June - Do not disturb:
Disturbing forests may be just as
bad for biodiversity as chopping
them down, an international study
involving Australians suggests.
...read
ARDR story
25 June - Added benefit:
A new study shows thaprogesterone to
standard breast cancer treatments
...read
ARDR story
25 June - Self-folding
straw: Scientists from
the ANU have developed a material
that folds into tubes on contact
with water ...read
ARDR story
21 June - Unwelcome
visitors: New CSIRO
research suggests there is a
relatively high chance of invasive
species entering Australia ...read
ARDR story
21 June - It's a rich
state's world: The NSW
2016-17 Budget has lots of money to
spend, but little imagination for
boosting innovation ...read
ARDR story
21 June - Petrolfying
future: A QUT-led study
concludes that petrol will still be
the dominating fuel used in
Australian vehicles in 2030.
...read
ARDR story
17 June - Hot coolness:
A Victorian shopping centre is
cooled by the world's first
demonstration of a desiccant
air-conditioning system using roof
mounted concentrating solar thermal
collectors ...read
ARDR story
16 June - Entangled
understanding: RMIT
research improves the detection of
high-dimensional entanglement
...read
ARDR story 
16 June - Busily social:
Businesses increasingly engage in
social media, according to a new
report by the Australian Bureau of
Statistics ...read
ARDR story
16 June - Finding
gravi-waves: Scientists
have detected gravitational waves
for the second time. ...read
media release
14 June - Miniexplorers
readied for space: Three
CubeSats developed by Australian
universities will be part of a mass
satellite launch later this year.
...read
media release 
14 June - Riding the boom:
QLD budget 2016-17:
Highlights from the 2016-17 Queensland
budget ...read
ARDR story
15 June - Honoured
innovators: Three
Australian innovators were honoured
in this year's Clunies Ross Awards
...read
media release
14 June - Salty power:
New Australian technology could
potentially overcome 'battery range
anxiety', thus boosting the electric
vehicle industry. ...read
ARDR story
10 June - Thawing concerns:
CO2 has been identified
as the main carbon player in thawing
permafrost...read
ARDR story 
5 May - Sunny deal:
Origin Energy will purchase 100% of
electricity generated from a
yet-to-be built large-scale solar
farm in North Queensland. ...read
ARDR story 
4 May - Northern light
shines bright: The $5
billion Northern Australia
Infrastructure Facility is set to
commence from July 2016 ...read
media release
3 May - Extreme survivors:
Ocean plankton has evolved to
survive a wide range of
temperatures, a study co-authored by
UTS researchers suggests ...read
ARDR story
28 April - Cracking
investment: Coinciding
with the release of its Antarctic
strategy, the Australian Government
has signed a contract for a new
icebreaker. The total investment
will amount to over $1.9 billion
over 30 years of operation.
...read
media release
28 April - Heavenly
connections: The nbn's
Sky Muster satellite network is now
in operation providing high-speed
broadband to communities in regional
and rural areas of Australia.
...read
media release
30 April - Cool blossoming:
As temperatures rise some plants
produce less flowers. Monash
University researchers have
discovered why. ...read
ARDR story
29 April - We joined the
club: Australia has been
approved as a member of the
Generation IV International Forum
(GIF) to work on long-term research
on advanced nuclear technologies.
...read
ARDR story
29 April - Damage control
not enough: The outgoing
CEO of Science and Technology
Australia, Catriona Jackson, says
that CSIRO has to do more to limit
damage from proposed changes to its
climate science capacity ...read
STA media release
26 April - Prickly
Inspiration: A new type
of polymer membrane could bring fuel
cells into our cars ...read
ARDR story
26 April - Damage control:
CSIRO's leadership has decided to
establish a new national climate
research centre, after its plans to
curtail its climate science capacity
was met with criticism from around
the world. ...read
ARDR story
26 April - Cyber secure
boards: CSIRO's Data61
and the Australian Institute of
Company Directors will develop a
cyber security education and
training program for directors and
their organisations ...read
media release
27 April - No Octoberfest
there, but still...: The
Australian Government will establish
a landing pad for Australian
startups in Berlin. ...read
media release
27 April - Guided
xenotransplantations: The
NHMRC seeks public comment on draft
guidelines for the transplantation
of living cells, tissues or organs
from animals to humans ...read
media release
27 April - Cool strategy:
The Australian Government has
launched the Australian Antarctic
Strategy and 20 Year Action Plan.
...read
ARDR story
26 April - Scaling up:
ARENA will invest $2.9 million in
RayGen's $5.8 million utility-scale
solar project ...read
ARDR story
23 April - Signed up:
Australia has joined over 150
countries in signing the Paris
Agreement, securing a global
agreement to combat climate change.
...read
media release 
22 April - Broadbanded
networker: iiNET founding
CEO Michael Malone is replacing
Simon Hacket as director of NBN Co
...read
ARDR story
21 April - Secure
appointment: Dr Helen
Scott-Orr has been appointed as the
inaugural Inspector-General of
Biosecurity ...read
ARDR story
22 April - Entangled
investment: New
laboratories opened at the
University of New South Wales are to
pave the way for the first prototype
of a silicon-based quantum computer.
...read
ARDR story
22 April - Oops, did we
kill the bill?: Cuts to
R&D Tax Incentive appear to be
dropped, according to Kris Gale from
Michael Johnson Associates ...read
media release
21 April - Safe surf:
The Australian Government has
released a Cyber Security Strategy
that includes 33 new initiatives,
supported by over $230 million from
the Australian Government. ...read
media release
21 April - Still in the
League: According to new
Nature Index Tables, Australia is
globally ranked 12th in its
scientific publication output
...read
ARDR story
20 April - Bleak outlook:
A current bleaching event has
affected 93% of the Great Barrier
Reef, final results of a reef survey
show ...read
ARDR story
19 April - Superconducted
success: High-temperature
superconductivity prototypes
launched at QUT highlight an ongoing
partnership between Australian
research and government
organisations with private
enterprise, and Australia's
potential in advanced manufacturing.
...read
ARDR story
20 April - Saviours in
sight: A research paper
by a Flinders University scientist
calls for proven phage-based
therapies against
antibiotic-resistant bacterial
infections to be fast tracked
...read
media release
15 April - Virtual joints
with China: The
Australia-China Science and Research
Fund will invest $5.95 million in
six new Joint Research Centres
...read
ARDR story
15 April - Play with me:
The Global Connections Fund has been
launched and is now open for
applications ...read
ARDR story
15 April - Fishy and
collaborative: CSU
Associate Professor Lee Baumgartner
is Australia's ASPIRE 2016 nominee
...read
media release
14 April - Blocked damage
control: According to
UNSW research published in Nature,
an important DNA repair mechanism
fundamental to preventing cells from
becoming cancerous is compromised in
many cancers at regions of our
genome that control gene expression.
...read
media release
15 April - Thick as a bug:
Recent increases in the cuticle
thickness of common bed bugs are
behind their increased resistance to
insecticides, research from the
University of Sydney has found ...read
ARDR story
15 April - Bleached future:
Corals may in future miss out on
protective 'practice runs' that has
led corals survive bleaching events
in the past, an Australian study
published in Science
suggests ...read
ARDR story
15 April - Nature's way:
noisily efficient:
Australian researchers have
demonstrated that noise can improve
the transport of waves more
efficient ...read
ARDR story
6 April - It's a virtual
world: There is no end in
sight to the growing appetite of
Australians for internet data, new
ABS data shows ...read
ARDR story
13 April - Infective
explosions: UTS
researchers have found that Pseudomonas
aeruginosa superbugs explode
to establish dangerous biofilms.
...read
ARDR story
13 April - Renewable money
splash: The Australian
Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has
awarded a total of $17 million to
nine renewable energy projects...read
media release
8 April - Digged prosperity:
Australia's resources and energy
industry will increase their export
earnings by 30% between 2015-16 and
2020-21, according to a new
government report. ...read
ARDR story
13 April - Stored potential:
Gelion's nanostructured gel battery
project has won international
support, worth $11 million ...read
ARDR story
12 April - Warm guilt:
CSIRO research confirms that the
fast pace at which global sea levels
are rising is mostly down to human
activity. ...read
ARDR story
11 April - Cyclic weapon:
Queensland University researchers
have developed a new plant-derived
drug candidate against Multiple
Sclerosis ...read
ARDR story
8 April - From nanochip to
black holes: An
Australian developed nanochip for
next gen optical technologies may
also enable a deeper understanding
of black holes. ...read
ARDR story
8 April - Sunny flexibility:
A moveable solar-diesel hybrid power
plant by Laing O'Rouke will be
commercialised by a new start-up
company, SunSHIFT Pty Ltd. ...read
ARDR story
7 April - Ancient
radioactive fallout from
supernovae: ANU-led
research has found ancient evidence
of supernova explosions near our
solar system. ...read
ARDR story
6 April- Safeguarded policy:
The Australian Government has
released draft guidelines for the
development of emissions intensity
benchmarks under the ERF Safeguard
Mechanism. ...read
media release
5 April - Glaucoma genes
sighted: A large study
involving 229 researchers from 25
countries, including Australia, has
identified new genes linked to
glaucoma. ...read
ARDR story
5 April - Reprogrammed
success: Australian
researchers have developed a new way
of producing induced multipotent
stem cells and show these can repair
tissue in mice ...read
ARDR story
4 April - Colonial wipe-out:
Ancient DNA traces devastating
impact of European colonisation on
Indigenous American populations.
...read
ARDR story
4 April - No-take
resiliency: Coral reefs
inside no-take marine reserves are
more resilient than those outside,
according to new AIMS research
...read
ARDR story
1 April - Tele-breathing
during pregnancy: Monash
University researchers have
developed a mobile platform for
asthma control targeting pregnant
women. ...read
ARDR story
31 March - New genetic
links of disease: An
major Australian genome-wide
association study has revealed
potential genetic links to diseases
such as Alzheimer's, cognitive
diabetes, cardiovascular and
autoimmune diseases. ...read
media release
31 March - Hobbit's early
demise: Homo floresiensis
may have disappeared 40,000 years
earlier than previously thought, a
major international study published
in Nature suggests.
...read
media release
31 March - Where could STEM
take you?: A new report
released by chief scientist Dr Alan
Finkel shows the breadth of
employment opportunities for
Australians with STEM qualifications
...read
ARDR story
30 March - Strategic love
affair: Six projects were
awarded a total of $5.6 million
under the Australia-India Strategic
Research Fund ...read
media release
23 March - Cleansing action:
The Australian Government will
establish a new $1 billion Clean
Energy Innovation Fund to fill an
investment gap for renewable
energies maturing to
commercialisation stage ...read
media release
23 March - Sharing the risk
pays off: Melbourne
start-up MecRx will receive $4
million from the Medical Research
Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) after
having secured a risk-sharing
agreement with the CSIRO ...read
media release
23 March - Yummy earnings:
The value of Australian farm
production has risen to $54 billion
in 2014-15, according to new figures
released by the Australian Bureau of
Statistics. ...read
ARDR story
22 March - Windy investment:
The NHMRC has awarded $3.3 million
to two research projects on the
potential effects of wind farms on
human health ...read
media release
22 March - Photon clones
for quantum computing:
CUDOS researchers have found a way
to produce indistinguishable single
photons on-demand, a major step
forward towards secure quantum
computing ...read
ARDR story
17 March - Entrepreneurs'
manna: the latest round
of commercialisation grants under
the Australian Government's
Entrepreneurs' Programme is offering
$8.1 million to 15 businesses.
...read
media release
17 March - Enlightened
purification: Monash
University researchers have
developed a new method for
large-scale water purification using
light and graphene. ...read
ARDR story
17 March - Growing in the
sun: While previous
research suggested otherwise - trees
in tropical rainforests have all
year round plenty of water but sun
is the limiting factor for growth,
UTS research shows. ...read
ARDR story
17 March - Plants not fazed
by global warming: Plants
adapt their aspiration to increased
temperatures much better than
previously thought. ...read
ARDR story
17 March 2017 - Calculated
strategy: A new ten-year
plan for mathematics in Australia
recommends that mid-level will be
made a pre-requisite for students
looking to enrol in science,
engineering or commerce degrees.
...read
media release or download
the report
16 March - Spot black spots:
Telstra has launched a website user
can use to follow the rollout
progress of the Australian
Government's Mobile Black Spot
Programme. ...read
media release
16 March - Disastrous chain
reaction: Mooring chains
from recreational boats have soured
seagrass covering 48,000 sqm from
the sands of Rottnest Island.
...read
ARDR story
16 March - Improved harvest:
Australian scientists have developed
a more effective way for obtaining
stem cells from donors ...read
ARDR story
16 March - Blood brothers:
US-based start-up AngioStem has
obtained IP rights to use University
of Queensland's new method of
extracting large quantities of
specialised stem cells from the
placenta. ...read
ARDR story
16 March - Balanced killing:
WEHI and University of Melbourne
research reveal the cooperative
pathways control the immune response
against cancer and viral infections
...read
ARDR story
15 March - Boarding the
innovation plane: The
Australian Government has unveiled
the new Innovation and Science
Australia Board ...read
media release
15 March - Inflamed
genetics: A major global
study including Professor Matthew
Brown from the Queensland University
of Technology has revealed genes as
major cause of inflammatory diseases
...read
ARDR story
11 March - Innovator
feedback: The Australian
Government is seeking feedback from
innovation ecosystem stakeholders on
the design of its Incubator Support
initiative. ...read
media release
11 March - Tiny light
bouncer Australian
researcher have developed the
world's thinnest lens, opening the
door to flexible computer displays
and a revolution in miniature
cameras. ...read
media release
9 March - New home for the
Synchroton: The
Australian Government has agreed to
support the transfer of ownership of
the Australian Synchrotron to the
Australian Nuclear Science and
Technology Organisation (ANSTO).
...read
media release 
8 March - Climate plight:
An international study shows that
Africa's food production will be
severely affected by climate change,
and urgent transformation in food
production is needed ...read
media release 
7 March - Elusive fusion:
ANU research explains a previously
impenetrable problem with nuclear
fusion. ...read
the ARDR story 
7 March - Eliminated
survival: Australian
research has described a new class
of drugs for treating legionaires'
disease. ...read
the ARDR story 
4 March - Blistering
results: Professor Ian
Frazer's Allied Immunotherapies has
announced "encouraging" interim
results from a Phase II clinical
trial with its herpes simplex virus
type 2 vaccine. ...read
the ARDR story
4 March - Gas making money:
Resources and Energy Minister Josh
Frydenberg has announced the Gas
Market Report 2015, which he says
shows that the long term outlook is
positive for Australia's gas
exports. ...read
media release 
4 March - Under new
management: The RIRDC has
appointed John Harvey as new
managing director. He will succeed
Craig Burns, who retired in late
February. ...read
media release
3 March - Remote controlled
reaction: Australian
researchers have developed a new way
to control chemical reactions that
could be cleaner industry and
cheaper nanotechnology. ...read
ARDR story
3 March - Peek into distant
past: Australian
researchers have contributed to
international research that has
pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
to its limits. They measured the
distance to the farthest galaxy we
can see, shattering the cosmic
distance record. ...read
media release 
3 March - Australia's
health happens in Vic:
The NHMRC has awarded $129.4 million
to health research project across
several schemes, with more than $108
million allocated to nine NHMRC
program grants - five in Victoria
and three in Queensland. ...read
media release 
2 March - Protective surge:
Protecting intellectual property is
on the increase in Australia,
according to Assistant Minister for
Innovation Wyatt Roy ...read
media release 
2 March - Stress helps
cancer cells escape:
Australian-led research found that
in mice, chronic stress promotes the
spread of cancer by restructuring
the lymphatic system. ...read
media release 
1 March - Sunny launch:
Australia's first utility scale
single axis tracking and largest
polycrystalline solar farm, the 56
megawatt Moree Solar Farm in NSW, is
now feeding into the grid ...read
media release 
1 March - Local trumps:
The Australian Government has
announced the "most significant
media reforms in a generation",
designed to protect local content in
regional Australia ...read
media release 
1 March - Leaving the ship:
Dr Rob Vertessy will retire as
director of the Bureau of
Meteorology on 29 April 2016.
...read
media release 
29 February - War on
microbeads The Australian
Government has announced further
measures to curb the environmental
impact of plastic waste ...read
media release 
29 February - New DST Group
strategic partner:
High-tech support company QinetiQ
Australia has entered a strategic
partnership with the DST Group
...read
media release 
29 February - Mick Keogh
new Agricultural Commissioner:
The Australian Government has
appointed cattle farmer, academic
and industry representative Mick
Keogh as Agriculture Commissioner to
the Australian Competition and
Consumer Commission (ACCC) ...read
media release --> 
29 February - First so
close, then so far apart:
Australian researchers shed light on
why all vertebrate animals look
alike during a phase of embryonic
development: it's because the same
genes are 'turned on'. ...read
ARDR story 
29 February - Two-pronged
potency: Researchers from
the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
have developed a new treatment
option for the most deadly form of
blood cancer, acute myeloid
leukaemia. ...read
ARDR story 
26 February - No trace of
mixing Australian and UK
researchers have challenged a theory
that people from India have entered
Australia 4-5 thousand years ago.
Instead their findings are in
agreement with 50,000 years of
independent Indigenous history.
...read
media release 
26 February - Blinding link:
For the first time, Australian and
UK researchers have sequenced
Chlamydia bacteria causing trachoma,
a leading cause of blindness - and
they found a genetic link with
Chlamydia bacteria causing STIs.
...read
ARDR story 
26 February - Prickly
improvements: University
of Queensland researchers have used
a needle-free 'Nanopatch' technology
to successfully deliver an
inactivated poliovirus vaccine in
rats ...read
ARDR story 
25 February - Change at the
ACMA helm: As Chris
Chapman is retiring from his decade
long tenure as chair and CEO of the
ACMA, deputy chair Richard Bean is
stepping in ...read
media release 
25 February - Souring times
for reefs: University of
Sydney researchers have provided
evidence that ocean acidification is
already slowing reef growth.
...read
media release 
25 February - Zinked
footprints: CSIRO
research points to unknown zink
deposits hiding underneath the
Northern Territory's prospective
McArthur Basin. ...read
media release 
25 February - The Genetic
Backburn:Scientists fromt
the University of Melbourne have
written a summary article on their
published research that tested
whether the spread of an invasive
species could be stopped by
introducing more of them ahead of
the invasion front. ...read
ARDR story 
25 February - Fast Radio
Burst located: Published
in Nature, an
international study involving
researchers from CSIRO has confirmed
that fast radio bursts (FRB), short
flashes of high-energy radio waves,
originate in the distant universe
...read
ARDR story 
25 February - Big data is
coming: The Garvan
Institute of Medical Research has
become a collaboration partner of
the National Computational
Infrastructure (NC)to develop
systems for the secure centralised
storage and analysis of genomic
information in Australia. ...read
ARDR story 
24 February - 3D for the
heart: University of
Melbourne doctors and engineers are
using supercomputers to create 3D
models from patients with heart
disease, with photos from a camera
thinner than a human hair. ...read
ARDR story 
24 February - Slow death of
a reef: An article in The
Conversation reports on how
the Great Barrier Reef will be
affected by ocean acidification, as
shown by CSIRO research published in
Nature Communications. ...read
The Conversation article 
24 February - Space case
open for comment: The
government s review of the 1998
Space Activities Act is now open for
public comment. ...read
media release 
23 February - Super immune
bats: 
19
February - Stretchable
nano-manipulation:
Researchers at RMIT University and
the University of Adelaide have
joined forces to create a
stretchable nano-scale device to
manipulate light. ...read
media release 
19
February - Defiant CSIRO:
David Thodey, CSIRO's chairman, has
defended the organisation's recently
announced cuts to its climate
science, responding to international
criticism ...read
media release 
18
February - Clever dumping:
Demonstrating Australia's expertise
in nuclear waste, ANSTO's Synroc
novel storage solution for nuclear
waste will deliver a fully
integrated processing plant for
radioactive waste generated in the
manufacture of molybdenum-99.
...read
media release 
16
February - Tear prevention:
NordBord Hamstring Testing System, a
new invention manufactured by QUT
spin-off Vald Performance, measures
the strength of athletes' hamstrings,
potentially saving professional sports
clubs hundreds of millions of dollars
in lost player time. ...read
media release 
15 February - Radiating
benefits: The Nuclear
Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has
released its tentative findings,
including that South Australia could
safely increase its participation in
nuclear activities ...read
media release 
12 February - Attractive
waves: LIGO Scientific
Collaboration and partners have
proven the existence of
gravitational waves, 100 years after
they were predicted by Einstein...read
the ARDR story 
11 February - Nuclear
doubts: The Australia
Institute has released a briefing
paper on the plan to produce free
electricity for South Australia by
embracing nuclear waste. The
conclusion: it won't work ...read
media release 
11 Februar - Degrading
potential: International
research, including from the
University of Melbourne, has
designed a new class of drugs
targeting malaria parasites...read
media release 
10
February - Building on previous
investment by ARENA, new Australian
backed funding for Sunverge Energy's
residential battery storage systems is
totalling $36 million, and includes
$20 million from AGL Energy Limited...read
media release 
9
February - A paper in Nature
Geoscience, co-authored by researchers
from Adelaide and New South Wales
universities, shows that the Atlantic
captured and stored most of the
atmospheric CO2 lost during
the last ice age ...read
media release 
9
February - According to new data from
the Australian Bureau of Statistics,
Australian households spent $47
billion on energy, including $16
billion on electricity and $25 billion
on petroleum products such as petrol
and diesel in 2013-14, while average
energy use declined by 1%. However,
energy intensity levelled off after
four years of decreases ...read
media release 
9
February - University of Melbourne
researchers have revealed that the now
arid Nullarbor Plain was once
featuring forests of wet gums and
Banksias ...read
the story 
8
February - CSIRO's chief executive
Larry Marshall has released a
statement correcting the public record
on announced changes at CSIRO ...read
media release 
8
February - A study by the University
of Queensland and the Wildlife
Conservation Society shows that
countries emitting the most greenhouse
gases are the least vulnerable to
climate change ...read
the story 
6
February - University of Sydney
researchers have analysed the
flexibility of elastin, a crucial
building block in our bodies ...read
media release 
5
February - Ancient DNA extracted from
people who lived in Europe 35, 000 to
7, 000 years ago has revealed a
previously unknown major population
turnover in Europe at the end of the
last Ice Age ...read
media release 
4
February - According to news reports,
CSIRO is going to cut around 350 jobs,
with most affecting the organisation's
climate science divisions ...read
the ARDR summary and expert
reactions 
4
February - Research data from
Australia's largest-ever stuy of
business start-ups was released to the
public today by QUT and Innovation
Minister Christopher Pyne. ...read
media release 
2
February - A UniSA research laboratory
is working with Melbourne-based
biotech company Sementis Ltd to
develop a vaccine to combat the
mosquito-borne Zika virus. ...read
media release 
2
February - If you ever worried your
big brain is a sign of heightened risk
for schizophrenia - it's not,
according to a study Australians
co-authored in Nature
Neuroscience ...read
the paper abstract 
29
January - Researchers from CUDOS have
publised in Nature Communications
a new class of light wave that opens
up future applications in many areas
such as in precision laser surgery,
imaging devices, and ultrafast
computing and communication
technology. ...read
media release 
29
- The Australian Government has opened
Round 2 of the Next Generation
Manufacturing Investment Program to
deliver $30 million worth of grants to
Victoria's and South Australia's high
value manufacturing industry ...read
media release 
29
January - Swiss and Australian
scientists have tested anti-prion
antibodies that help clear clumps of
protein from the brain, to investigate
their benefits, toxicity and potential
as immunotherapy treatments for
neurodegenerative diseases ...read
media release 
28
January - The ARC Training Centre for
Forest Value has officially been
launched at the University of Tasmania
...read
media release 
28
January - Published in Nature
Energy: Scientists, including
from the ANU, have developed a new
silicon solar cell that promises
cheaper manufacturing processes and
better power output ...read
media release 
28
January - Ever wondered what keep
worker bees and ants slaving for the
queen? ANU research suggests that it's
because of the queen's pheromones,
which chemically alter workers' genes
...read
media release 
27
January - CropPAL, a new database of
valuable protein information for
economically important crop plants,
has been developed by the Australian
Research Council Centre of Excellence
in Plant Energy Biology at the
University of Western Australia ...read
media release 
27
January - Published in Global Change
Biology, a study from Edith Cowan
University has shed light on when and
how seagrasses along Australia's coast
have been devastated ...read
media release 
27
January - UNSW scientists have
published in Nature
Communications a theory
suggesting that complex human brain
activity is governed by the same
simple universal rule of nature that
can explain other phenomena such as
the beautiful sound of a finely
crafted violin or the spots on a
leopard. ...read
media release 
26
January - A study led by the
University of Sydney published in Nature
Geoscience has found that just
four countries are responsible for
almost half of the total global
nitrogen pollution ...read
media release 
25
January - International scientists,
including an Australian, say
epigenetics could explain why
identical twins can be very different
weights, and they've found a protein
that affects how the switching works
...read
media release 
25
January - A new report by
Professionals Australia suggests
age-based discrimination and bias are
widespread among Australia's STEM
professionals ...read
media release 
22
January - CSIRO research published in
Science suggests inivisible
structures shaped like noodles,
lasagne sheets or hazelnuts are
floating around in our Galaxy
challenging current understanding of
interstellar gas ...read
media release 
22
January - Outgoing chief scientist Ian
Chubb has released a
report prepared by the Centre
for International Economics
that found science underpins more than
one-quarter of Australia's economic
output...read
media release 
21 January - Life on other planets
would likely be brief and become
extinct very quickly due to runaway
heating or cooling on their
fledgling planets, astrobiologists
from The Australian National
University (ANU)suggest in a paper
in Astrobiology...read
media release 
21
January - The CRC Association has
uploaded its latest newsletter ...read
media release 
20
January - $15 million will be made
available to support ten automotive
component manufacturers in South
Australia ...read
media release 
20
January - AGL Energy Limited and First
Solar have successfully completed
Australia's two largest solar
photovoltaic (PV) plants at Nyngan and
Broken Hill ...read
media release 
19
January - Australia's outgoing chief
scientist Professor Ian Chubb has
posted a farewell note welcoming
incoming chief scientist Dr Alan
Finkel to the job ...read
media release 
19
January - Using the NCI supercomputer
Rajin Australian researchers have
developed a way to improve the
humidity tolerance of a new type of
solar cell technology that is cheaper
than traditional silicon cells but
usually drop in performance in humid
conditions. ...read
media release 
19
January - New research led by Monash
University and the University of
Bristol has resulted in the
development of a blueprint to
routinely turn cells in the human body
into tissues needed to treat disease.
...read
media release 
18
January - Two specific markers that
identify stem cells able to generate
heart muscle and the vessels that
support heart function have been
uncovered by scientists at Murdoch
Childrens Research Institute and UCLA
Eli and Edythe Broad Center of
Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell
Research. ...read
media release 
15
January - An international research
team that includes UNSW scientists has
discovered a new genetic target for
the development of possible treatments
for the common inherited blood
diseases sickle cell anaemia and
thalassaemia. ...read
media release 
14
January - Graphene-based cellular
elastomer, a new sponge-like material
discovered by Monash researchers,
could have diverse and valuable
real-life applications, such as to
create soft, tactile robots to help
care for elderly people, perform
remote surgical procedures or build
highly sensitive prosthetic hands. ...read
media release 
14
January - Stone tools dating back to
at least 118,000 years ago have been
discovered in Sulawesi, Indonesia,
suggesting that early humans colonised
the island much earlier than
previously thought, Australian
researchers published in Nature.
...read
research summary and paper
abstract 
14
January - ARENA has announced 22
large-scale projects short-listed for
its $100 million large-scale
photovoltaic (PV) competitive round
...read
media release 
13
January - WEHI researchers have found
that babies with hyperactive immune
cells at birth are more likely to
develop food allergies in their first
year of life ...read
media release 
12
January - International scientists,
including Australians, have identified
three new areas of the genetic code
that are associated with an increased
risk of developing the most common
form of glaucoma - the leading cause
of blindness worldwide ...read
research summary and research
abstract 
5
January - University of Sydney led
research published in Nature has
discovered strong magenetic fields are
common in stars, with potentially
important implications for evolution
and the ultimate fate of stars...read
media release 
4
January - Researchers have discovered
a record 20 new fish species while
conducting fieldwork in the remote
Kimberley, unveiling it as Australia's
most biodiverse region for freshwater
fish ...read
media release 
31
December - A protein that controls
milk production in the breast after
pregnancy can go rogue in breast
cancer, driving the spread of cancer
to the lungs, Australian researchers
have published in PLOS Biology. ...read
media release 
25
December - Australian scientists have
for the first time revealed how
malaria parasites cause an
inflammatory reaction that sabotages
our body s ability to protect itself
against the disease. ...read
media release 
24
December - The idea that there are a
limited number of evolutionarily
successful plant traits associated
with plant organs such as leaves,
stems and seeds was validated by a
paper co-authored by Australians in
Nature. ...read
media release 
23
December - The Chief Economist's
Resources and Energy Quarterly
forecasts that Australia s resources
and energy export earnings will
decline by 4% to $166 billion in
2015-16, but increase by more than 40%
to $235 billion in real terms by
2019-20. ...read
media release 
23
December - Just using the mass of fish
in a protected area is not a good
guide to how well it has recovered
from overfishing, and demographics
returning to normal should also be
taken into account, according to US,
UK and Australian researchers. ...read
research paper 
22
December - The deadline for public
nominations to the Australian
Government's mobile black spots
programme has been extended from 21
December 2015 to 15 January 2016 ...read
media release 
22
December - The Government has welcomed
the release of the interim report on
the review of the Government's
offshore resource management policy
and regulatory framework. ...read
media release 
22
December - An international study,
including Australian researchers, has
significantly expanded the number of
genetic factors known to play a role
in age-related macular degeneration
(AMD) ...read
media release 
22
December - Researchers at Adelaide's
Centre for Cancer Biology (CCB) have
discovered that inhibiting a
particular protein in the skin can
accelerate the healing of wounds. ...read
media release 
22
December - Aggressive honeybees calm
down and sting less when they smell
odours from flowers associated with
food, such as those found in lavender
and roses, according research led by
Maquarie University researchers ...read
paper in Nature Communications 
22
December - Seaweed forests display
highly localised temperature
tolerances along the coastline of
Australia's Great Southern Reef,
researchers from UWA have found ...read
media release 
18
December - UNSW researchers published
in the open access journal Scientific
Reports a potential way to disperse
biofilms, often responsible for
chronic infections, using
nanoparticles and heat. ...read
media release 
18
December - Published in Science,
an evolutionary biologist from the ANU
has analysed political opposition to
evolution and found it has evolved ...read
media release 
18
December - The Australian Renewable
Energy Agency will invest $4 million
in the construction of a 330 MW pumped
storage hydroelectric power plant at
the disused Kidston Gold Mine in North
Queensland. ...read
media release 
18
December - According to a study co-led
by UNSW researchers, a thigh bone
found in China suggests an ancient
species of human thought to be long
extinct may have survived until as
recently as the end of the last Ice
Age. ...read
media release 
17
December - The ACMA reports spectrum
management outcomes from the
International Telecommunication Union
(ITU) 2015 World Radiocommunication
Conference (WRC 15) in Geneva ...read
media release 
17
December - The Australian and
Queensland Governments have announced
$15 million in funding for seven
projects delivering pest and weed
control in drought-affected areas in
Queensland...read
media release 
17
December - UNSW Australia astronomers
have discovered the closest
potentially habitable planet found
outside our solar system so far,
orbiting a star just 14 light years
away. ...read
media release 
16
December - The Australian Government
has announced the establishment of a
"landing pad" for businesses in Tel
Aviv, which is part of its National
Innovation & Science Agenda ...read
media release 
GSK
Australia's new pilot vaccine facility
at Boronia, Victoria, is testing a new
production method developed by an
Australian-led team. ...read
media release 
16
December - Ocean energy company
BioPower Systems (BPS) has deployed a
250kW bioWAVE pilot demonstration unit
off the coast near Port Fairy,
Victoria. ...read
media release 
15
December - $4.6 million in new funding
over four years will match voluntary
industry contributions to Forest and
Wood Products Australia (FWPA)
research and development. ...read
media release 
15
December - CSIRO researchers have
published in Nature Materials
a new process to grow designer
crystals using vapour. This, they say,
could lead to a new breed of faster,
more powerful electronic devices. ...read
media release 
14
December - Methane emissions from
cattle in Australia are 24% lower than
previously estimated. ...read
media release 
13
December - Most of the evolutionary
diversity of corals and fish is not
currently supported by the world s
network of marine protected areas
(MPAs), Australian researchers write
in Nature Communications ...research
summary or paper
abstract 
12
December - The office of the chief
economist has released a report on how
regional universities drive regional
innovation ...read
media release 
7
December - Researchers from Australia
and the US have discovered a distant,
ancient cloud of gas that may contain
the signature of the very first stars
that formed in the Universe. ...read
media release 
11
December - Woodside Energy's US$2
billion Greater Western Flank Phase 2
Project off the north-west coast of
Australia will go ahead. ...read
media release 
11
December - Dr Gwen Fenton is the
Australian Antarctic Division's new
Chief Scientist. ...read
media release 
9
December - According to a new report,
Corporate Australia's has been
overlooked in the government's
innovation statement ...read
media release 
8
December - The Australian Government
has launched Collaborate, a new
Queensland-based accelerator designed
to build businesses focused on solving
the problems of business...read
media release 
7
December - The Chief Scientist has
welcomed the release of the Australian
Government's National Innovation and
Science Agenda. ...read
media release 
6
December - Australia will be part of
an International Partnership for Blue
Carbon, established at the Global
Landscapes Forum in Paris ...read
announcement 
5
December - The third Emissions
Reduction Fund auction will be
conducted by the independent Clean
Energy Regulator on Wednesday 27 and
Thursday 28 April 2016. ...read
announcement 
4
December - Provost and senior
vice-president of Monash University
Professor Edwina Cornish will join the
CSIRO Board for the next five years
...read
media release 
4
December - The Council of Australian
Governments (COAG) Energy Council has
released Australia's first National
Energy Productivity Plan 2015-2030,
which targets a 40% improvement in
Australia's energy productivity over
the next 15 years. ...read
the plan 
4
December - University of Melbourne's
System Biology Laboratory has
developed a framework for
understanding cell function, and
ultimately disease, based on an
energy-based mathematical modelling
technique...read
media release 
4
December - ARENA will contribute up to
$892,000 towards CSIRO's development
and application of guidelines that can
assess the performance of perovskite
solar photovoltaic cells...read
media release 
3
December - The release of the
Electricity Generation Major Project
report by Australia's Chief Economist
shows that renewable energy is
dominating new major projects in
Australia. ...read
the report 
3
December - Researchers from the WEHI
and collaborators reveal in Nature
Immunology that a network of
immune cells helps the appendix to
play a pivotal role in maintaining the
health of the digestive system,
supporting the theory that the
appendix isn t a vestigial or
redundant organ. ...read
media release 
2
December - The Australian Government
has launched Australia's National
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Strategy at the United Nations Climate
Change Conference in Paris ...read
media release 
2
December - In an Australian first, the
Melbourne Energy Renewable Energy
Project brings together local
governments, cultural and educational
institutions and private-sector
corporations to invest in renewable
energy through a group purchasing
model. ...read
media release 
1 December - Researchers from six
Australian institutions are part of
multinational projects selected in the
first round of the International Wheat
Yield Partnership ...read
media release 
1
December - Tiny variations in genes
can contribute to breast cancer risk,
a study co-authored by Adelaide
University researchers in Nature
Genetics has found ...read
media release 
1
December - Australian start-up Kayban
has developed the world s first
anti-microbial healthcare range made
from organic flaxseed oil following a
collaboration with CSIRO. ...read
media release 
1
December - A gene which protects
against wheat stem rust disease, the
major disease threat to wheat
production, has been published by
Australian researchers in Nature
Plants. ...read
the paper abstract 
1
December - Australia's largest
renewables mining project at the
DeGrussa Copper-Gold Mine has
installed the first 34,089 solar
photovoltaic panels ...read
media release 
1
December - Microsoft has released a
report exploring how Australia could
become more innovative. ...read
media release 
1
December - A University of Queensland
led study suggests that many crops
depend on non-bee insect pollinators,
potentially under threat from
pesticides applied to spare bees ...read
media release 
30
November - Deakin University
scientists have manufactured a novel
material that absorbs oil and thus
could be used to clean up major oil
spills such as the 2010 Gulf Coast BP
disaster...read
media release 
27
November - A University of New South
Wales led study published in Nature
Communications has discovered
how connections between brain cells
are destroyed in the early stages of
Alzheimer s disease. ...read
media release 
27
November - On Monday 7 December the
Australian Government is expected to
release its Innovation Statement, yet
a business survey on the R&D Tax
Incentive has only just commenced:
incredibly inept, according to BDO
Research & Development partner
Nicola Purser ...read
media release 
27
November - Innovation in Australia is
suffering from a lack of direction,
short-termism and a haphazard
approach, says a new ACOLA report
launched today in Canberra. ...read
media release 
27
November - The Australian Science
Media Centre celebrated its 10th
anniversary ...download
the anniversary brochure 
24
November - The Western Australian
Department of Agriculture and Food
will conduct an indoor assessment of a
genetically modified Mediterranean
fruit fly ...read
media release and expert
reactions 
25
November - The University of
Wollongong's Australian Institute for
Innovative Materials (AIIM) this week
launched the four-week online course
'Bioprinting: 3D Printing Body Parts'
...read
media release 
23
November - The Australian Academy of
Sciences has awarded UQ's Associate
Professor Geoffrey Faulkner the 2016
Ruth Stephens Gani Medal...read
media release 
20
November - CSIRO scientists have
advanced in revealing the 'dark
proteome', the structural areas of
proteins in eukaryotes that are
completely unknown ...read
media release 
19
November - The CSIRO has officially
opened its $6 million Lab 22
Innovation Centre, which will provide
Australian companies with access to 3D
printing ...read
media release 
19
November - A new round of grants worth
a total of $11.2 has been awarded
under the Geelong Region Innovation
and Investment Fund...read
media release 
19
November - Australian research on
marine sediments from up to 600
million years ago has paved the way
for a new barometer of what helped to
wipe out and restore life in
prehistoric times....read
media release 
18
November - The ARC for Transforming
Waste Directly in Cost-effective Green
Manufacturing has been launched at the
University of New South Wales ...read
media release 
17
November - The new ARC Research Hub
for Advanced Technologies for
Australian Iron Ore has been
officially launched at the Institute
for Energy and Resources at The
University of Newcastle...read
media release 
17
November - Bill Ferris has been
appointed as the new chair of
Innovation Australia ...read
media release 
17
November - Australian engineers have
proven that a quantum version of
computer code can be written using two
quantum bits in a silicon
microchip....read
media release 
16
November - CSIRO research has
developed a new coating for medical
devices and implants based on
molecules from a primordial goo...read
media release 
16
November - The ARC Gender Equality
Action Plan 2015-16 has been
released...read
media release 
13
November - Six voluntary sites have
been shortlisted for a national
radioactive waste management facility
...read
media release 
12
November - Researchers from the
University of Queensland, Griffith
University and Bond University found
that improving doctors' communication
skills and providing patients with
written information about antibiotics
reduces their use...read
media release 
12
November - Professor Perry Bartlett,
founding director of the Queensland
Brain Institute at The University of
Queensland, has received the CSL
Florey Medal for his breakthrough
discoveries in neuroscience...read
media release 
12
November - Australian-led research has
discovered the oldest known stars,
dating from before the Milky Way
Galaxy formed, when the Universe was
just 300 million years old...read
media release 
12
November - Australian-led research
found that local fish species are not
necessarily most at risk in areas of
the oceans predicted to be most
affected by global warming...read
media release 
11
November - Australian and Korean
scientists have established a
comprehensive list of species and
subspecies of native Aussie birds...read
media release 
10
November - A Nature Materials
corresponding article suggests a
future based entirely on renewable
energy sources is possible...read
media release 
10
November - New Zealand and Tasmania
stayed frozen while the rest of the
world warmed up at the end of the last
ice age, according to a new study by
international scientists including an
Australian....read
media release 
10
November - A study involving
Australian scientists has identified a
gene that could prevent some of the
most important wheat diseases...read
media release 
5 November - Featured as a lead story
in Nature, a new report from
the CSIRO shows that Australia has the
capacity to significantly grow the
economy while protecting and even
improving the environment...read
media release
2 November - The first
three-dimensional image of a protein
linked to the spread of cancer has
been determined by Griffith
University's Institute for
Glycomics...read
media release 
30
October - The Australian Government
has announced the ARC Major Grants
2016, which will support 899 new
research projects with more than $357
million ...read
media release 
30
October - A new report by the Office
of the Chief Scientist finds that
while having one of the highest rates
of business creations, Australia
produces few startups with the
capacity to grow beyond the local
level...read
media release 
29
October - A group of the nation's
leading water scientists are urging
the Australian Government to
accelerate underground water storage
across Australia ...read
media release 
29
October - Deakin University scientists
have discovered a potential new
treatment for tuberculosis, a disease
rapidly gaining resistance against
current medical therapies...read
media release 
27
October - RMIT researchers have
developed the first low-cost and
reliable method of detecting the air
pollutant nitrogen dioxide (NO2)...read
media release 
27
October - Researchers from the
University of Technology Sydney have
found a material that emits a single
pulse of a quantum light on demand at
room temperature, removing one of the
barriers to extremely fast and secure
information processing....read
media release 
26
October - Dr Alan Finkel, the current
president of the Academy of
Technological Sciences and
Engineering, is expected to become
Australia s next Chief Scientist...read
article in The Conversation 
23
October - Research led by the WEHI and
the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes
Institute has identified an internal
sensor that instructs cells to burn
their fat stores...read
media release 
22
October - A single blood test could
reveal whether an otherwise healthy
person is unusually likely to die of
pneumonia or sepsis within the next 14
years, according to research led by
The University of Melbourne...read
media release 
23
October - The magnetic fields inside
huge stars known as red giants have
been probed for the first time by
international researchers, including
Australians...read
media release 
23
October - A collaboration between The
Australian National University (ANU),
the Garvan Institute of Medical
Research and US biotech company
Genentech has discovered a gene
involved in the full-body infection
sepsis...read
media release 
23
October- A University of Queensland
led international study has discovered
two new methane-metabolising
organisms...read
media release 
23
October - The Australian Government
has reappointed Dr Kerry Schott as a
director of NBN Co for a second term
of three years...read
announcement 
21
October - The winners of the 2015
Prime Minister's Science Prizes
have been announced...read
about the winners 
19
October - Research led by the
University of New South Wales has
developed a type of ultra-lightweight
magnesium alloy that is stronger, more
ductile and more resistant to
corrosion than other magnesium-based
alloys...read
the Nature Materials article preview
19
October - The first shipment of
liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the
Gladstone LNG project is on the way...read
announcement 
19
October - Flinders University
researchers have found a way to suck
mercury out of water using a material
made of industrial waste and unwanted
orange peel...read
media release 
16
October - The Australian Government
has released the National Broadband
Networks three-year construction
plan...read
announcement 
16
October - Roy Woodal has been elected
as the inaugural National Geoscience
Champion...read
media release 
16
October - A $2.54 million 'Super
Science' four-year research project
has been launched to fight cancer on a
new frontier...read
media release 
16
October - University of Western
Australia researchers were involved in
a study that found that zebrafish has
more than 40 types of a light
detecting protein, so called opsins,
the most found in any vertebrate...read
media release 
Research
from the University of Adelaide and
international collaborators has
identified a potential block against
the spread of cancer cells
(metastasis) and the progression of
autoimmune disease such as multiple
sklerosis...read
media release 
15
October - A jump in global average
temperatures of 1.5?C to 2?C will lead
to hundreds and even thousands of
years of sea level rise, according to
Australian and New Zealand research
published in Nature...read
media release 
15
October - Mangrove forest around the
Indo-Pacific region could be submerged
by 2070, according to a Nature paper
co-authored by researcher from the
University of Queensland...read
media release and opinion in The
Conversation 
14
October - A team of Australian
scientists have developed a precision
laser device that creates an accurate
international standard for
temperature...read
media release and article in The
Conversation 
12
October - the Australian Government
has launched a new guide to help small
business operators protect themselves
against cybercrime...read
announcement 
9 October
- Scientists are now better able to
predict how quickly the HIV virus will
return after patients stop treatment
using immune system biomarkers
discovered by researchers at UNSW and
the University of Oxford....read
media release 
9 October
- Physicists from the University of
Sydney have used diamonds to identify
cancerous tumours before they become
life threatening...read
media release 
8 October
- ATSE has released its ATSE Focus
October edition calling for a new era
of high impact manufacturing...read
media release 
8
October - Advancing their previous
research, Australian researchers have
used stem cells to produce
mini-kidneys containing all different
cell types that make up a human
kidney...read
media release 
7 October
- According to the Australian Bureau
of Statistics, the total Gross Value
of Agricultural Production (GVAP) was
$50.9 billion in 2013-14, up 6% from
2012-13, with irrigated Agricultural
Production (GVIAP) accounting for
$14.6 billion, up 9% from 2012-13...read
the report 
7 October
- The High Court of Australia has
ruled that the breast cancer gene
BRCA-1 was not a "patentable
invention"...read
summary on high court decision and
expert reactions 
7 October
- Ahead of 50 nano-satellites, called
CubeSats, being launched into orbit as
part of the European QB50 project,
they will be tested using facilities
at ANU...read
media release 
7 October
- Laureate Professor Scott Sloane from
the University of Newcastle is 2015
NSW Scientist of the Year...read
announcement 
7
October - Evolutionary theory is
tested as ANU led research found high
level of DNA swapping among
rock-wallaby species, despite major
differences in shape and number of
chromosomes...read
media release 
6 October
- The second round of the 2014
Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage
Release provides four exploration
permits representing $297 million in
new investments...read
announcements 
6
October - Australian researchers have
taken a crucial step towards quantum
computing by demonstrating a central
component of a quantum computer, a
two-qubit logic gate, in silicon...read
media release 
6
October - The US Department of Defense
will fund Australian research aimed at
therapeutic nerve stimulation through
bionic technology for the treatment of
inflammatory bowel diseases...read
media release 
6
October - Australian resarchers (QLD
and UWA) have found that some corals
have an in-built protective mechanism
to cope with high fluctations in ocean
pH...read
media release 
1 October
- Sky Muster, the first of the NBN's
two communication satellites, has
launched...read
media release 
1
October - NSW based company Dyesol is
taking steps to commercialise its
perovskite solar cell technology,
supported with $449,000 from the
Australian Renewable Energy Agency
(ARENA)...read
media release 
1 October
- The NHMRC and the US National
Institutes of Health (NIH) have opened
a joint funding round as part as part
of the United States Brain Research
through Advancing Innovative
Neurotechnologies (BRAIN)
Initiative...read
announcement 
1
October - UNSW researchers have used a
new water-tracing technology in the
Sydney Basin to determine how
groundwater moves in the different
layers of rock below the surface...read
media release