President of the Australian Institute of Physics Comments on Australia's 2009/10 Budget. (June 1, 2009)

The University of Sydney's Brian James is President of the Australian Institute of Physics. He makes the following observations from the physics viewpoint as regards Australia's 2009/10 federal budget:

 The recent federal budget was very positive for science. Of direct relevance to physics were the announcements of a space science program, an SKA science centre in Perth, additional facilities for the Australian synchrotron and the OPAL reactor, an accelerator science centre at ANSTO and continued funding for the Anglo-Australian observatory when the UK leaves the partnership in 2010.