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A SUCCESSFUL trial of a youth service at Aspendale Gardens featuring after-school activties for students aged 11-15 - such as Isabella, left, Cailiosa, Isabella and Sienna - has led Kingston Council and the Aspendale Gardens Community Centre to continue to offer the free service. See Page 6. Picture: Gary Sissons
Science cuts ‘political’ Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au ASPENDALE seems set to be targeted for science job cuts for political reasons in a blow to Melbourne’s south east economy. An internal email from a management member of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) released last week to a Senate inquiry into the national science body’s plans to axe up to 350 jobs, mostly in climate change research, stated any job
losses in Hobart should be minimised. The majority of the CSIRO’s climate change research is conducted in Aspendale and Tasmania. The partially redacted email stated the unnamed CSIRO official would work to “minimise impacts at Hobart – need to address loss of employment in TAS (a regional political issue)”. Federal Isaacs Labor MP Mark Dreyfus accused the federal government and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of “politicking of the most sickening nature”.
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“This is not a time to mince words: Mr Turnbull has sold out Melbourne’s south east. He has cut national funding to the CSIRO and then focused these cuts on our community,” he said. “Mr Turnbull is playing with the jobs of CSIRO researchers in Isaacs to minimise political damage in Tasmania. People’s livelihoods are at stake here and Mr Turnbull is callously thinking about politics. “Every member of our community will feel the direct or indirect shock of these cuts.”
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When asked whether the federal government would consider Labor’s request to postpone any CSIRO job cuts until after this year’s federal election a spokesperson for Liberal Industry, Innovation and Science Minister Christopher Pyne denied there had been any federal budget cuts to the science organisation despite a $110 million CSIRO funding cut over four years announced by the Abbott government in 2014. Mr Pyne’s media adviser Eleisa Hancock said a statement should be attributed to “a spokesperson of the Minister’s
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office” when asked for a spokesperson’s name for the claim. “There have been no changes in government funding to the CSIRO. Any suggestion that this was a result of changes to the CSIRO budget is incorrect,” the statement claimed. “The CSIRO is an independent statutory agency governed by a board of directors. The board in conjunction with senior management are responsible for operations, including staffing, and setting the CSIRO’s priorities.” Continued Page 4
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