Send Malcolm a Message
For months we’ve been asking Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to step in and stop the cuts to climate science at the CSIRO – now secret tapes have revealed that the Government's attitiude towards climate science is behind the cuts.
'It's a fundamental shift away from curiosity-led research toward impact... The federal government was CSIRO's most important 'customer', and it no longer wanted what the climate scientists were selling.
'I don't mean to be insensitive,' said Dr Marshall, 'but you have to get real about your customer.'"
Sign here to write a message to Malcolm Turnbull in the comment box on the right about why you love CSIRO and want to stop the cuts.
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You have NO political capital to eviscerate the CSIRO. No cuts – except for Larry Marshall – the sooner he gets he boot, the better. His replacement ought to come from a SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH background, not a private corporate greed one. The CSIRO is NOT to be told it has to self-fund or generate cash as its primary purpose. Its primary purpose is to do SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. Those are OUR tax dollars at work. You can cancel one of those unreliable $90million F35 planes, and use that money to FULLY FUND THE CSIRO, with not ONE Scientist to lose his/her job.
And, no, I don’t work, and no one in my family works, for the CSIRO. I am simply smart enough to know how vital our Scientific public good research is for our future.