Honey NOT so sweet

[onetrack]

The CSIRO is at the forefront of inventiveness in Australia - yet our Govt has been cutting funding for it for years.
Very few people are aware of the huge number of patented inventions produced by the CSIRO (I seem to recall a figure of 110 off the top of my head), that still earn sizeable royalty and licencing income for Australia.
(EDIT - It's actually 141 in total - I checked, and counted them all).

CSIRO inventions have ranged from improved fly traps, to Aeroguard, to the UltraBattery (incorporating supercapacitors), to Australias first computer, Radar improvements during WW2, WiFi, polymer banknotes, Hendra virus vaccine, improved barley strains, and even Softly wool-wash detergent. CSIRO is at the forefront of nano-technology solar collectors that appear to be able to be produced in printable and paintable form.

One the earliest and greatest inventions of the CSIRO was the Atomic Absorption Spectrometer.
The AAS has been a boon to our agricultural, mining and geological industries - along with pharmacology, biophysics and toxicology research - and the AAS financial benefits to Australia have run into the billions of dollars.

https://csiropedia.csiro.au/atomic-a...-spectroscopy/

10 of our best inventions - CSIROpedia

Achievements A-Z - CSIROpedia

The CSIRO has re-directed or re-arranged its energies into collective and joint ventures with Uni's and corporations to continue, and extend research, into promising developments that have come from CSIRO inventiveness.
Unfortunately, with the advent of corporations into the fields of CSIRO research, there is a risk that shareholders of those corporations will benefit to a far greater extent, than anyone in the wider world.

[BobL]

The AAS has been a boon to our agricultural, mining and geological industries - along with pharmacology, biophysics and toxicology research - and the AAS financial benefits to Australia have run into the billions of dollars.

That may well be the case but what I bemoan is the billions $$ made by manufacturers of AAS which are all overseas, eg HP, Perkin Elmer, Shimazu etc No one in Australia was prepared to take this up and run with it. It's not only the money but the jobs this would have provided to our own scientists and engineers.

[FenceFurniture]

It's not only the money but the jobs this would have provided to our own scientists and engineers.

And the bigger spread of industries which would have some stabilising effect, PLUS the prestige, which is worth money.

[BobL]

Here's more lead contamination to get your teeth into.
Its not just n Broken hill either.
Melbourne veggie patches near homes with old paint more likely to have elevated lead levels: study - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[ian]

Yeah, when I saw that I sort of went "Durr".

On the whole Australian's are willfully ignorant when it comes to industrial hygiene.