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Past Editorials |
02/10/13 Jan Thomas Issues a Plea for Maths and Stats
02/08/13 Kim Carr - Research Impact - and The ERA?
01/07/13 An Apparently Exasperated Chief Scientist Spits the Dummy
02/06/13 "Guest Editorial" The A-Z of Wave Power Generation
01/05/13 Public Support for University Research 3 Views
27/02/13 NHMRC Symposium and Consultation on the Evolution of Peer Review
29/01/13 Daniel Koshland, Editor in Chief of Science '85 to '95, Creator of Dr Noitall
01/12/12 The Roadmap for the National Research Investment Plan
30/09/12 Too Many Graduate Students? Too Many Postdocs? Too Few Research Assoc
01/09/12 Do Chief Scientific Advisors Speak Only to the Hand?
01/08/12 STEM, Higher Education, the Bumblebee and the World's Economy
01/07/12 Still Swimming Through Glue?
01/06/12 The Future of Peer Review?
30/04/12 An Educational Pioneer Makes Time's 100 Most Influential
02/04/12 "To be an Effective Chief Scientific Advisor You've Got to be Lucky." Robert May
02/01/12 The Wonderful World of CSIRO Administration
31/10/11 The Theatre of the Absurd and the Dance of the Xenophobes
01/10/11 In When the President of the Australian academy of Science Speaks, Who Listens?
01/08/11 Don't Think Just Add Another Layer to the Bureaucracy
30/06/11 Australia's Public Universities - Are They Good Enough?
31/05/11 Is an economic crisis looming for Australia, which has nothing to do with carbon trading?
30/04/11 (01/01/08-rerun) So Estragon, Happy Now?
30/03/11 (09/04/08-rerun) Terry Tao: Mathematics in Today's World?
01/03/11 And Just Who Do You Think Should be the Next Chief Scientist?
01/01/11 Some Pieces of Unsolicited Advice
30/11/10 Matters No Longer Pending?
31/10/10 Transforming Learning and the Transmission of Knowledge
01/10/10 A The Schlemiel & the Schlimazel
20/07/10 A Glimmer of Light at the End of the Tunnel
30/06/10 Who Writes This Stuff Anyway?
31/05/10 A Real and Pernicious Debit
27/04/10 Big Stick -- Small Carrot?
27/02/10 Is Australia Doomed to Lack Opportunities dor Pursuing High-risk Open-ended Science
27/01/10 Bad Ideas Whose Time is Nye
29/11/09 CSIRO's So You Want to be a Scientist
29/10/09 CSIRO's Fundamental Research of Over 17 Years Ago Leads to $200 Million and Counting
29/09/09 Redesigning the ARC's System of Peer Review
31/08/09 The Detrimental Increasing Dependence of Our Universities on International Students' Fees
31/07/09 De-emphasise the Pace, Concentrate on the Objectives of Labor's Education Revolution
30/06/09 University Research Funding and the Choke Collar
30/05/09 Something to Aim For?
30/04/09 The Assent from an Abyss
30/03/09 University Autonomy - Governance - Accountability
27/02/09 D-Day for the Government's Response to the Bradley Review Approaches?
26/01/09 Car Batteries, Biomass, Malcolm Turnbull and Carbon Reduction?
30/12/08 The Bradley Review but What's the Use of Universities Anyway?
29/11/08 Vice-Chancellors of the Group of Eight Show a Remarkable Lack of Perception
29/10/08 John Dawkins Continues to Cast a Destructive Shadow
29/09/08 Cutting the Curricula To the Quick
31/08/08 What Path Innovation?
31/07/08 The Biostatistician and the Peer Review
30/06/08 Don't Bother With Facts, His Mind is Made UP
31/05/08 It Takes a Long Pole to Balance on the Political Tightrop
09/04/08 Terence Tao: Mathematics in Today's World
01/04/08 Brains Drain to Where Their Future Lies
02/03/08 Micromanagement is Never Far Away
31/01/08 A Chief Scientist Can be a Most Influential of Advisors
01/01/08 So Estragon, Happy Now? Vladimir Do You Believe Godot Will Come
31/10/07 To Subjugate, Be Consistent in Attack
30/09/07 A Glimmer of Light at the End of the Tunnel
30/08/07 When You've Got a Bad Idea, Work it to Death
30/07/07 The Legacy of Daniel Koshland
29/06/07 The Paucity of Mr Howard's Legacy to Science or Speak to the Hand
31/05/07 From Flagpoles to Chaplains to Performance Pay
29/04/07 Where Illogicality Rules Both Major Political Parties Vie for the Goof Ball World Cup
27/02/07 Seize the Day, Carpe Diem, Pluck the Day
28/01/07 Learning Promoted to the Status of Political Football?
30/12/06 Has John Howard's Hubris Overwhelmed His Political Acumen?
30/11/06 Barriers to the Future Growth of Australia's Human Capital
25/10/06 The Pale Greening of John Howard
01/10/06 If it Weren't So Serious, It's be Farcical: the RQF Lumbers on, the RAE Stalls
30/08/06 "The best students in the world in number theory all want to study with Terry"
30/07/06 The Relentlessness Higher Education Research Policies
26/06/06 The Continuing Heartburn Over the UK's Research Assessment Exercise
31/05/06 Nuclear Power Good -- Nuclear Power Bad: a Debate?
26/04/06 The Economic Engine, Foreign Debt and the Current Account Deficit
25/03/06 Gareth Roberts - The RAE - The RQF - and Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr Brown
26/02/06 Don't Think -- We'll Tell You What To Do
31/01/06 Might a Grownup Have Been Chosen to Cleanup the Mess?
27/12/05 Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage?
24/11/05 Would the Real University of California, Berkeley Put its Hand Up
31/10/05 "Learning is Not Compulsory... Neither is Survival"
28/09/05 Just What is Dr Nelson Playing At?
28/08/05 "If you want to influence politics, make your concerns public." -- John Howard
30/07/05 Where Has All the Opposition Gone?
30/06/05 The Wages of Doctrinaire Anti-intellectualism
22/05/05 Is CSIRO's Hyping of its Science a Service to Those Really Doing the Work
01/05/05 The Progressive "Dysfunctioning" of Australia's Universities
01/04/05 A Framework on Which to Fasten the Fabric of Australian What...?
28/02/05 Can the Amalgam Become Greater Than the Sum of the Parts?
27/01/05 Universities: Hunting of an Endangered Species
30/12/04 A Myopic Government Eschews an Eye to the Main Chance
30/11/04 Public Spending on Unis to Fall Sharply...Record Deficit to Hit Dollar Growth
29/09/04 Labor Unveils a Research and Development Policy Without Committing to Increased Resourcing
18/08/04 The TWI, Foreign Student Enrollment and a V-C's Prediction
27/07/04 The Treasurer, the Chancellor and Views to the Future
26/06/04 Whom to Lobby - How to Lobby - When to Lobby
18/05/04 Computational Quantum Chemistry -- But What Good is it, Professor
19/04/04 The Australian National University's Review is On-track
20/03/04 Keeping Your Eye on the Ball, or What is it We're Defending
25/02/04 The Loneliness of a Chief Scientist
30/01/04 A Continuing Descent into the Maelstrom
16/12/03 The Populist Superficiality of Brendan Nelson
20/11/03 He That Eats His Own Flesh is a Fool
19/10/03 Is the 'Peter Principle' Operational at Cabinet Level
29/09/03 No Substitute for an Advocate with Class
16/08/03 Feynman Your Services Wouldn't be Required
23/07/03 Beware the Jabberwock My Sun/ The Jaws That Bite
26/06/03 Pot-Shot Policy Formulation or Progress Through Propaganda
22/05/03 The Distortion of Australia's Universities
26/04/03 Science and Political Ethic: Facts vs Expediency
27/03/03 Let Us Cultivate Our Garden
24/02/03 A Gresham's Law for Australian Academe
28/01/03 The Nexus Between Research and Teaching
29/12/02 A Graphic Look Back... and Ahead
11/20/02 It's Not a Crisis if Nobody Cares
11/11/02 Science Meets Parliament, Round 4
11/10/02 An in Depth Analysis of CSIRO Leaves Us Little the Wiser
15/09/02 "Thou Shall Not Admit to a University System in Crisis
26/08/02 Who Cares What the Opposition Says When You've Got the Numbers
10/07/02 A Philosophical Point of View
11/06/02 Who Was There to Led The Charge That Took Us to the Rear?
09/05/02 It May be Moving From a Nightmare into a Disaster
11/04/02 The Federation Fellowship: The State of Play
27/03/02 Aye, and Who Will Pay For It
14/03/02 The Relevance of Mr Howard's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council
08/02/02 The Politicisation of Science Policy
20/01/02 The Nov. 10th Election May or May Not Have Made a Difference
28/12/01 Australian Academy of Science's 12 Proposals
04/12/01 Lack of Trenchant Appraisal Keeps Us in Limbo
14/11/01 Suddenly Things Have Gone Very Quiet
29/10/01 Intellectual Suicide or the Power of Negative Thinking
13/10/01 Education and the Power of the Press
26/09/01 As Good As It Gets - Part II
05/09/01 Is Being a Basic Research Freeloader Good Policy?
27/08/01 Tomorrow and Tomorrow
14/08/01 Harry Truman, Where are You
05/07/01 "You Get No Bread With One Meatball"
18/06/01 Toward a Knowledge Nation - But with Faltering Steps
06/06/01 More Than Time for a Sea Change
25/05/01 Excerpts from the Federal Budget and 2001-02
09/05/01I 100 Going on 200 and Full of Pride
26/04/01I Infiltrating Science
13/04/01 Are Australia's Universities Good Enough
27/03/01 But Who Will Pay For It?
19/03/01 The Consequence of Ryan
11/03/01 To Bad, We Lose, Nobody Wins
25/02/01 Problems with Primary Education? Rubbish – Flexibility, That's All You Need
17/02/01 A Fissioning Atom Can Generate Good Along Unexpected Paths
26/01/01 Swimming through glue