The ways in which countries invest in public-good science matters. This report assesses the effectiveness of the existing government-funded science system and identifies thirty policy knots. It then suggests how the system might be improved to achieve better long-term outcomes for the public good.

IN ANTARCTICA, you can’t just select a date, waltz in, and perform a ceremony. You have to submit yourself to the control of the continent, just as Douglas Mawson’s expedition did a hundred years ago. Ice and weather cannot be commanded. Antarctic logistics are ruled by what is called “the A-factor,” the destabilising ingredient in...

Brigid Graumans report on Cyber -space presents the risks and threats associated with the rising use of the internet to access personal and professional information. This report is made up of a survey of some 250 leading authorities worldwide and of interviews carried out in late 2011 and early 2012 with over 80 cyber-security experts...

This paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age 18 and under search for information online, how they evaluate information, and how their related practices of content creation. Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework and by looking at levels of new literacies...

This consultation paper introduces, and seeks comment on, Australia's National Research Priorities. A process to refresh the National Research Priorities (NRPs) is being undertaken as recommended by the Focusing Australia’s Publicly Funded Research Review (21). The NRPs are: An Environmentally Sustainable Australia Promoting and Maintaining Good Health Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries...