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The CSIRO has detailed evidence its dire finances, showing how successive governments have chosen not to fund its true costs for decades, effectively forcing it to cut research jobs.

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CSIRO lays out 15-year govt funding crunch behind job cuts
https://www.innovationaus.com/csiro-lays-out-15-year-govt-funding-crunch-behind-job-cuts/

#research #csiro #science #australia

Mar 1 at 8:28pmWeb
Show threadQCCEクリスMar 1
@rowlandm
This is about pushing research in to private companies, which can sort out the profitable research positions from the non-profitable ones.
It's effectively the privatisation of the CSIRO, through defunding and having no respect for science or publically owned operations, research or commitments.😞
Show threadRMMar 1
@QCCEChris 100% agree