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Spirit unbowed CROWDS turned out in force again this year to commemorate Anzac Day with dawn services and marches throughout Kingston. Chelsea Longbeach RSL president Michael Weissenfeld said attendance numbers were slightly down on last year’s Gallipoli centenary high but there was still a strong turnout to honour those who have served Australia in war. See pictures Page 9. Picture: Gary Sissons
Science jobs face axe Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au A NEW Climate Science Centre in Hobart announced by the CSIRO this week has put the future of the science body’s Aspendale laboratories in doubt amid accusations the decision to favour Tasmania over Victoria is “a political fix to protect marginal seats”. Liberal Industry, Innovation and Science Minister Christopher Pyne
welcomed the CSIRO’s “decision and announcement” on Tuesday to base a Climate Science Centre in Tasmania. “As the CEO of CSIRO Dr Larry Marshall has said, it is critical that the CSIRO continue to work in this space, and this announcement today fulfils that commitment,” Mr Pyne said in a statement. “Throughout its history the CSIRO has independently made decisions about how best to direct its efforts and resources to meet Australia’s needs –
this operational decision is another example of this.” Federal Isaacs Labor MP Mark Dreyfus says the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Centre in Aspendale, where climate research is conducted, is likely to be “gutted” despite a reduction in the number of anticipated job losses across the CSIRO nationally. “After months of campaigning by Labor for Mr Turnbull to reverse these cuts to CSIRO jobs, he has barely re-
duced the job losses from 350 to 275. Of the 75 climate researchers now expected to lose their jobs, many of these will be from the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Centre in Aspendale,” Mr Dreyfus said. “This is too little, too late, a last ditch attempt to save the Liberals’ political skin in Tasmania, with next to nothing for Aspendale or Melbourne’s south east.” The federal government says the CSIRO is an independent statutory
agency governed by a board of directors and as such makes its own operational decisions on where best to allocate funding for scientific research. However, Liberal Environmental Minister Greg Hunt told the ABC on Tuesday he and Mr Pyne had intervened to try to limit CSIRO job losses. “Yes, we did help broker an outcome here ... we were very involved and each of us played our role,” he told ABC radio. Continued Page 4
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