Real innovation requires funding. Public good science should be supported. Reverse the 1400 job cuts to CSIRO

Beatrice Stotzer

Jason Stirling

Malcolm, don’t let the Abbot luddites drag you down to their non believing level. Insist CSIRO top management maintain their full workforce and add more for the innovation that you so rightly push. Insist the Treasurer adds more to their funds so they can do their important work unimpeded.

CSIRO has delivered so much for Australia over the years and it beggars belief that cuts are being made to a future focused, science contributing organisation. Science is our future. The Turnbull government needs to stand up for science in Australia, not diminish it.

Now more than ever we need independent scientific research being conducted for the public good through our very own and highly respected world wide CSIRO, not with an economic agenda of only doing scientific research for profit.

We must gather evidence through experiments and data over long terms, years, in fact, and scientists have to have the certainty of long term funding for their research in all fields plus a generous salary to attract and retain the brightest minds here in Australia.

This is critical if we are going to be part of the solution, and not the problem, to the world’s massive and life threatening issues as well as being a truly innovative culture where ideas can flourish and be supported to come to commercial reality if that is what eventuates from the vital research.

It is excruciating to witness the Sauron of CSIRO: Larry Marshall, drag a world renowned science brains trust down to the level of the promotion of a high heel shoe. One of his directorships includes this company as a proud pointer to his ability to commercialise science discoveries.


If this is your government’s example of an acme of human innovation, then we are a nation in academic and educational trouble.


I am often amazed that your government displays such anti-intellectual and anti-wisdom manners. I feel personally distressed as our national science achievements are spurned and turned to rubbish.

Honestly, isn’t it time your government of fiddling Neros noticed the environmental damage being done by Big Business in its ignorance and greed, and listened to your science graduates and sages?

At one time Prime Minister Turnbull, we future-philes hoped you would step up for science and the planet. Now our Great Barrier Reef is a source of deep sadness and grief. Isn’t it overdue to change policies?

Innovation doesn’t happen spontaneously, it needs the dedicated work of researchers and thinkers. Now, more than ever, we need innovative people working on solutions to the many problems created by our reckless disregard and profiteering from the earth. The best way to promote innovation is to support the innovators. Give us back our climate scientists and give them more funding to drive a future our children can look forward to.

Australians in general are very proud of the work done by CSIRO over the years. It is very important to provide sufficient funding so that this research can continue regardless of whether we personally agree with the results of their research.

Please don’t destroy the talent and knowledge held in the great institution. Change is important, but short-term goals commercial opportunism should not be allowed to blind leaders to the value that exists in CSIRO. Once you have dismantled what is there, it cannot be easily restored.

Heather Warner

Dear PM


We need our scientists to develop strategies to preserve our environment for our children and grandchildren. We also need their contribution to build the innovative nation you keep telling us about. Please meet with them, some of our country’s most brilliant minds, and stop the cuts which jeopardise our future.


Regards

Carol Jordan

Mr Turnbull Australia’s Int’l commitment to combat Climate Change rely on these climate scientists – do not cut funding to the CSIRO- for the sake of our country’s future

Those who value innovation value the CSIRO.

Without all the sciences there can be no innovation because they all overlap! Please meet with our scientists and save the CSIRO

The situation is urgent. We simply cannot shed even one climate scientist. It goes against the spirit and the letter of the Paris Agreement.