00:00Australia's peak science body is no stranger to job cuts.
00:06The CSIRO has already slashed about 400 jobs.
00:10The CSIRO announced 350 job cuts.
00:14Australia's leading government funded research and development agency has announced job cuts.
00:18And now the community and public sector union is sounding the alarm,
00:22fearing hundreds more could be acts this year.
00:25These are across important areas in research unions, scientific roles right across the board.
00:31It's going to have implications for the long term capacity of the CSIRO.
00:36The union warning the nation's capacity for productivity and innovation is being actively undermined.
00:42This flies in the face of the government's stated commitment to driving up productivity and innovation across the board.
00:49It's time for the Albanese government to step in and protect these CSIRO jobs.
00:53Concern is growing about the potential risk to research and development.
00:57I would love to be able to say that cutting the CSIRO will not impact on our potential to make and apply discoveries.
01:05But unfortunately, I don't think that that's the case. I think it will impact.
01:09The CSIRO has not confirmed whether it will cut research jobs this financial year,
01:14but says it is reshaping its research portfolio and will undertake workforce planning
01:19with a goal of making the organisation more financially sustainable.
01:23In an ideal world, the agency would be appropriately funded to be able to do the work that the government
01:29and the Australian people ask it to do.
01:32And that funding can and should come from government.
01:34It can also and should also come from industry.
01:36An organisation heading towards an uncertain future.
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