Money for telescopes and vaccines is great, but the budget's lack of basic science funding risks leaving Australia behind
- Written by John Shine, President, Australian Academy of Science; Laboratory Head, Garvan Institute
The story of the past year has been the pandemic: from the first outbreaks in early 2020, the identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and methods to detect it, through to lockdown and quarantine measures, vaccine development, testing and finally distribution. The pandemic is not over, but the recovery has started.
At each stage, it has been...
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