Media Releases

2010

• FASTS responds to ALP Science policy announcement (10 August)
• Vote 1 for science this election (3 August) and FASTS Science and Innovation Federal Election Questionnaire
• Australia the clever country? One in three believe humans and dinosaurs co-existed (30 July) and results of science literacy survey
• Consensus and essential precursor to action on climate change (23 July)
• Communicating the Future: FASTS Climate Change Summit (15 June)
• FASTS welcomes appointment of CSIRO Chairman Mr Simon Mckeon (22 June)
• FASTS response to 2010/11 Federal Budget
• Science meets Parliament.  Australia's finest scientific minds to converge on Canberra (5 March)and SmP newsletter
• Inspiring Australia Report essential to engaging tomorrow's young scientists
  

2009

• FASTS announces new President and new Board Members (25 November)
• Great Barrier Reef: 50 per cent chance of survival (17 November)
  
• Historic budget for science, higher education and innovation (14 May)
  

2008

• Australia to remain 'carbon obese' (15 Dec)
  
• Research Agency Charters recognise the necessity of independent public science (18 November)
  
• National R&D expenditure cuts through the 2% GDP barrier (21 October)
  
• FASTS welcomes appointment of Professor Penny Sackett as Chief Scientist (30 September)
  
• FASTS Policy Statement: Statement on Climate Change (4 September)
• New laureate Scheme is a real capacity-building opportunity (3 September)
  
• FASTS welcomes appointment of Dr Megan Clark as CEO of CSIRO (3 September)
• CRC Review welcome - better approach to handling risks (5 August)
• FASTS statement on budget cuts to CSIRO and ANSTO (21 May)
• New ABS research classification welcomed (31 March)
• Taxonomy in peril (19 March)
• Death of Professor peter Cullen (14 March)
• FASTS welcomes proposed research charter (16 January) 

 2007

• FASTS welcomes new Ministers (29 November)
  
• Fellowships and Scholarships fill more gaps in Labor's 'education revolution' jigsaw puzzle (15 November)
  
• Distorted focus on skills shortages (5 November)
  
• Australian Scientists contribute to IPCC Nobel Peace Prize (15 October)
  
• ARC and NHMRC grants boost Australian Research (26 September)
  
• Business investment in R&D continues to grow (21 August)
  
• Is this what you had in mind? – Science lags national investment in R&D (26 June)
• FASTS initial response to Commonwealth Budget (8 May)
• Coalition's industry package (1 May)
• ALP Innovation Paper (24 April)
• Labor's First Step on Science and Mathematics (31 January)
• Welcome Investment In Water Science And Engineering (25 January) 

2006

• FASTS Welcomes New Science and Education Shadow Ministers (11 December)
  
• Productivity Commission - Incisive science and innovation report (2 November)
  
• New Australian Research Council Schedules Big Bonus For Researchers (11 October)
• Record National Investment in R&D (11 October)
• Positive growth in business investment in R&D (28 August)
• Australian Wins “Nobel Prize” in Mathematics (22 August)
• Labor’s White Paper puts Higher Education back on the agenda (21 July)
• ALP Innovation Blueprint (10 July 2006)
• Nuclear Options Must Be Part Of Comprehensive Energy Debate (23 May)
• FASTS welcomes direct Government support (11 May)
• Diminished Australian Research Council (30 March)
• Productivity Commission Study To Provoke Rethink Of Innovation (10 March)
• CSIRO must make hard decisions (31 January)

2005

• FASTS pay tribute to former Minister for Science, Senator Peter Cook (4 December)
• Nobel Prize Celebrates The Brave And Unorthodox (29 September)
• Business investment in R&D bucks up (28 September)
• Scientists welcome progress on Radioactive Waste Repository (15 July)
• Alarming Trend In R&D Investment Must Be Reversed (19 May)
• Local Wetlands in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment (10 March)
• Water quality on the GBR (10 March)
• Invasive weeds in Queensland (10 March)
• Water efficiencies in Murray River (10 March)
• Wheat genes protects against aluminium toxicity (10 March)
• Nanotechnology and solar energy (10 March)
• Science and maths teaching in regional Australia (10 March)
• Wetland management in Murray-Darling basin (10March)
• Mrs Rocketfuel-Science education and space (10 March)
• Ageing and driving tests (10 March)
• Managing local River systems in Nymboida and lower Clarence Rivers (10 March)
• Using Radio-activity to help environmental monitoring (10 March)

2004

• Decline in enabling mathematics and science undermines future - Joint Media Statement with Engineers Australia (30 September)
• ALP Research and Innovation policy looks to the future (28 September)
• Labor’s “Smart Partnerships” – smart policy (23 September)
• Why do 1 million Australians now work overseas? (8 September)
• Business Expenditure on R&D declines as share of GDP (6 September)
• Scientists say GDP growth not sustainable while R&D goes Backward (2 September)
• FASTS’ ‘Science meets Parliament’ wins 2004 Eureka Prize (9 August)
• Scientists welcome Recommendation for a Full-Time Chief Scientist (5 August)
• FTA risks US cherry-picking Australia’s most promising technology firms (15 June)
• Govt locks in R&D – comment on BAA II (6 May)
• $450 Million Squeeze On Universities Distorts Research Balance (24 March)
• Piecemeal approach to ageing ignores productivity growth from science, technology and R&D (26 February)
• Celebrating Darwin Day (12 February)
• FASTS Appoints a new ED (2 February)
• Science like 'a gently pricked balloon' (January)

2003

• From brain drain to career path (8 July)
• Visit by US Congressional Science Fellows (13 June)
• The Budget and science: FASTS (14 May)
• The advice MPs get on science (7 May)
• At last! A science minister for NSW (10 March)
• Science plea: drop 'boffin' (20 January)

2002

• National Priorities: Towards a National Vision (5 December)
• What's it like being a young scientist in Australia today? (13 November)
• FASTS elects new Executive (11 November)
• “ Science meets Parliament” - the hot topics (11 November)
• Response to ALP Policy discussion paper (29 October)
• It’s the air that we breathe (17 October)
• Australia “drags at the coat-tails of the advanced world" (23 September)
• FASTS welcomes reappointment of Chief Scientist (20 May)
• Ten year plan for education (8 May)
• Science and the budget: relief (26 April)
• Stem cell decision "imminent" (8 March)
• An Investment in Human and Animal Health: Parasitology in Australia (11 February)

2001

• President Chris Fell welcomes the appointment of the Ministerial team for Science (November 23)
• New president for FASTS (November 19)
• Democrats Front-End Loader - Science as a Core Promise. (November 6)
• Knowledge Nation policy "another step down the road." (October 31)
• Demand for maths and science teachers hotting up. (October 15)
• Report on Universities welcomed (September 27)
• Forget tax - science holds the future. (August 22)
• What Science Turns An MP On? (20 August)
• New chairman of ARC to launch "Science meets Parliament" Day. (August 5)
• Brain drain study “only chapter one” (17 July)
• " Knowledge Nation": grand scale (July 2).
• Budget fails the Modern Economy test (5 May)
• R.I.P Quantum – ABC has no heir apparent (3 May – joint release with Engineers Australia)
• University funding: a 21st century mirage? (27 March)
• A sea-change for science (29 January)
• Science at centre stage (10 Jan)