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Opinion
Nature 420, 591 (12 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420591a
Prioritizing Australia
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Abstract
Australia's researchers have been set national goals by their government. The underlying agenda is to ensure that the country's institutions spend scarce funds more wisely and in a way that reflects joined-up thinking.
In a landmass nearly the size of the United States and occupied by fewer than 20 million inhabitants, Australia's research community suffers not so much from a tyranny of distance as one of scale. Australian science takes pride in wringing high-quality research from scant resources.
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