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New chair at Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... pressing environmental challenges. Prior to that, Bun has worked for The Wilderness Society, Greenpeace Australia, Choice, the CSIRO and a number of financial organisations, including as a director of Allen Consulting Group. For the last 17 years Cole ...

ASFA backs CSIRO/Monash superannuation research alliance

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... released a discussion paper in support of the research alliance between the Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Monash University. "We look forward to working with the initiative on a range of future research projects," said The ...

CSIRO questions Aus economy after the boom ends

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
A CSIRO researcher has questioned where Australia's economic output will come from once the commodities boom ends. "We are a highly exposed market because three things that we make, make up 40% of our exports," said Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, principal scientist ...

Aust must avoid Europe's ETS disaster

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... available by around 2020 but additional investment could bring this date forward considerably. Illustrating the potential, the CSIRO is already involved in a carbon capture joint venture in China that is expected reduce GHG electricity power plant emissions ...

Planners set to Ignite the Difference

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... find out more about ethical decision making. Keynote speakers include founder of the Choir of Hard Knocks, Jonathan Welch, CSIRO executive, James Moody and psychologist turned business coach, Ed Jacobsen, covering both motivational and financial planning ...

The long hot summer

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... are set to fry the climate making Australia dryer and hotter over the next 20-60 years. According to a report developed by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology through the Australian Climate Change Science Programme, temperatures across Australia will ...

Water's potential to float

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... household income on water, Citi acknowledges its model will be politically unpopular in making water more expensive. However, on CSIRO projections if measures are not taken now, the price of water will increase ten-fold by 2030 simply due to shortages. ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... energy and land transport, estimated conservatively at $25 billion, which requires immediate attention, " CEDA said. The CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics have authored a report, obtained by ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... Higher education the dominant component was the so-called Performance related block, within the Public sector it was the CSIRO with a 44 per cent allocation and finally, within the Multisector category, about 55 per cent went to NHMRC & health based ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
... buy-back of irrigation licences and limit environmental flows to the Murray-Darling basin. The Nationals also seek to limit CSIRO's role in analysing and determining water allocations. On the international front the Japanese economy has continued to ...