Where Science Took Some Hits in the 2011/12 Federal Budget. (May 12, 2011)

Rosslyn Beeby in The Canberra Times' May 11, 2011 issue gives a cogent summary of how science fared in the federal budget. Her full article is available online (click the link above).

Just a couple of excerpts:

The Gillard government has invested a record $3billion in CSIRO, praising the peak science agency as ''a highly successful national asset'', but...

The Cooperative Research Centre program... has been cut by $33 million.

The Department of Climate Change will axe 49 jobs and the Department of Environment will lose 105 staff...

The budget provides $46 million over two years to manage closure of the bungled Green Loans program...

Funding for the Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships program has been cut by $420million...Water reform programs have been cut by $317 million...