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What’s in store for key policy areas, from health to education to infrastructure to asylum seekers, under a returned Coalition government?
When the GM crop debate is confined to the human risks, it limits who can participate in the decision making and privileges scientists.
Australian researchers engage in collaborative programs with both the UK and the rest of Europe. So what does Brexit mean for those collaborations?
What are the key policy issues on which the 2016 federal election will be fought?
Successful economies are led by innovation and driven by knowledge. For Africa to advance, it needs to make more substantial investments in its research and development sector.
A review by Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, has said the UK’s research councils should continue to be exist as part of a new quango.
The scientific community reacts to the news that Dr Alan Finkel has been appointed Australia’s New Chief Scientist as of 2016.
A Turnbull government has an opportunity to redirect Australia towards being a science and innovation nation.
Science funding is changing – let’s make sure it’s for the better.
The new government should link policies on education, career progression and welfare to tackle the lack of women in science.
It’s rare for research to have an immediate impact on policy, but lessons learnt from a successful venture in Queensland can show how it can be done.
The UK’s commitment to a referendum on EU membership could already be harming the UK’s reputation in science.
Neither Labour nor the Conservatives have pledged to do as much as retain the current level of funding in their manifestos, despite their enthusiastic comments about science in the UK.
The government’s announcement of a national science strategy is good for Australia, particularly for promoting engagement between science and industry.
Science and research were not at the front of the political debate in 2010. So how has science funding fared under the coalition government?
Scientific discoveries have moulded modern society. But the reliability of scientific results have recently been called into question. How will scientists solve this problem?
Our nation’s future depends on the quality of its thinking and its leaders. As such, science must be at the core of our national discourse.
After several delays, the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills finally published its first strategy for UK science and innovation titled Our Plan for Growth. Strangely for such…
On science and technology, the Abbott government is somewhat of a paradox. On one hand, the government passionately believes that deregulating the university sector is essential. By taking caps off fees…
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Secretary for Science Policy at the Australian Academy of Science, and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, UNSW Sydney
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Quality and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Experimental Physics and Master of Churchill College, University of Cambridge
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Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Emeritus professor, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Redmond Barry Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Australia's Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist
