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CSIRO Annual Report 1991 – 1992 C5 I R0 1991-1992 ANNUAL 1991'-1992 REPORT .. C~3I 8'-'1 . , C5110 ANNUAL IEPOIT CID C S I RO AUSTRALIA Photo credits: G Heath (p.45), Heide Smith (p.6), R Nethery (p.25), E Dare (p.28), J Houldsworth (p.33), M Basaglia (p.35), J Masterson (p.41, 54), D Whillas (p.44), D Malin (p.49), M Fergus (p.53), B Campbell (p.59), L Lockley (p.60), Internet (p.73), G Tidy (p.74) Published by CSIRO, Canberra ISSN 1030-4215 Printed in Australia by National Capital Printers, Canberra • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The Hon Ross Free MP Minister for Science and Technology Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 We have pleasure in submitting to you, for presentation to Parliament, the forty-fourth annual report of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Highlights for the year included the release of a number of cost-benefit studies showing that CSIRO delivered returns of up to $14 for evelY dollar invested in a wide range of our research. Our Strategic Plan for 1991-96 reveals how we have planned to deliver benefits to Australia in the future. The establishment of eleven more multi-Divisional programs this year will enable us to focus more effectively on important national issues by bringing teams swiftly together from across traditional scientific and administrative boundaries. We commend the Organisation's achievements to you. ;l~--- ~" Adrienne E. Clarke John W. Stocker (Chairman of the Board) (Chief Executive) November 1992 • Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Chairman's foreword 3 Appendixes Chief Executive's review 6 1. Index of compliance with About CSIRO reporting guidelines 82 Charter, functions and powers 9 2. Functions and powers of CSIRO 83 Statistics at a glance 10 3. Research programs 85 Structure, management and staff 12 4. Institute/ Sector Advisory The Board 13 Committees 88 Organisation chart 14 5. Publications 90 Senior staff and addresses 16 Finance 91 Mission and goals 20 Index 110 Research Research highlights 22 Co-operative Research Centres 51 International relations 52 Awards 53 Technology transfer 56 Funding 59 Corporate development Planning 60 Distribution of research effort 63 Finance 65 Internal audit 65 Legal services 66 Management info rmation systems 67 Property 68 Human resources development 69 Communication 71 Evaluation 76 Statutory reporting requirements 79 Trust funds 80 Freedom of Information 81 • Chairman's Foreword • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Professor Adrienne Clarke We live in extraordinalY times, times of natural resources, as well as how best to rapid change, times in which great help both existing and new industries challenges and opportunities are presented achieve and maintain international to us. Australia is a small community in the competitiveness. global context. We are buffered by distance eSIRO's vision is expressed in our priority from political upheavals in Europe and setting and strategic planning processes. In natural disasters in Africa, but we are the past year, eSIRO has continued to tackle buffeted by movements in the major the issue of directing and concentrating economies of the world. resources in order to best help Australia One of the truly global forces which we solve problems and develop opportunities. can influence to a certain extent is modern We are doing this in close co-operation with science and technology. This powerful force research users and beneficiaries. is driving all societies in similar directions. This year we published our five-year In Australia, we are in the fortunate position Strategic Plan. This plan sets out our broad of having a relatively strong scientific goals and strategies and highlights some of capability, mainly in eSIRO, the universities the expected outcomes and benefits of and the research institutes. programs. It identifies milestones by which Within eSIRO our focus is to use our the Organisation is prepared to be judged. science and technology resources to achieve eSIRO's contribution to Australia's drive a better standard of living and quality of life for competitiveness became more focused in Australia. In planning for this goal, we in 1991-92 and our range of skills better address major questions such as integrated. Our approach has balanced management of our environment and our •development and environmental values and Chairman's Foreword • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • we have made a major contribution to the Co-operation with State authorities and broadly palticipative examination of agencies is impOltant to optimise our overall ecologically sustainable development. effort. The past year has seen several Genuine fOlward-looking strategies are co-operative agreements with State central to CSIRO's success and overseeing agencies; for example, agreements with the their development is one of the Board's key Sydney Water Board and Melbourne Water, responsibilities. To this end the Board will co-operative development of mineral soon be analysing the major challenges and research facilities with the Queensland and opportunities facing Australia and the ways Western Australian governments, air CSIRO can contribute to an effective pollution work with the NSW Environment response. Protection Authority, and increased funding My predecessor, Mr Neville Wran, for pharmaceutical research through the presided over a period of major Biomolecular Research Institute in Victoria. restructuring and cultural change in CSIRO . CSIRO is also a partner in 29 of the 35 These changes have enhanced its reputation Co-operative Research Centres so far as an extremely effective, world-class established. We strongly SUppOlt this research organisation. In paying tribute to program and believe it offers the potential Mr Wran's leadership during this period, I for formation of synergistic links between also acknowledge the work of other research performers in CSIRO, the outgoing Board Members, Sir Roderick universities and other research institutions, Carnegie and Dr Kevin Foley, who made as well as the users of the knowledge major contributions to the Board program generated. and through this, to the Organisation and Internal co-operation within CSIRO has the nation. It was a great privilege for me to also been emphasised recently. We are have worked with these outstanding ensuring that all levels of CSIRO contribute Australians during the past five years. to planning and priority setting, in each case In a small nation such as Australia, we consulting with potential users. Planning can only succeed by focusing our energies includes new programs in human resource and co-operating to reach our goals. Too management, career planning, and training often in the past, for a host of reasons, our and redeployment strategies to complement energies have been diffused by an changes in research programs. With the unwillingness of major bodies and strongest SUppOlt from the Board, organisations to co-operate. We are slowly management is working towards better and overcoming our past histolY and more co-operative staff retraining and recognising the strength in pulling together redeployment. The CSIRO Consultative rather than apart. Council has set up a task force to develop The recent review of CSIRO's rural processes which fully reflect the conviction research effort highlighted the need for that CSIRO's greatest resource is its skilled co-operation in rural research and in its first staff. recommendation suggested the production Another successful development in of a unifying strategy for successful research co-operation, crucial to the full realisation of and application in collaboration with other CSIRO's potential, is the extension of research agencies. •multi-Divisional, multi-disciplinalY teams to Chairman's Foreword • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • tackle big problems and big opportunities. burgeoning Double Helix Club and These co-operative programs within CSIRO postgraduate awards. CSIRO has also are already leading to practical outcomes in continued to build awareness of science areas such as waste management, land and through media activities and displays, water care, greenhouse research and genetic including 'Will Pigs Fly?' - a travelling engineering. This year we launched CSIRO's exhibition exploring some of the facts and Coastal Zone Project, another fictions of genetic engineering. These are a cross-Divisional effort to help manage our very important part of our commitment to fragile coastal zones. This project also Australia's future. involves extensive collaboration with other A vision for Australia's future, a drive to bodies throughout Australia, reflecting the ensure science and technology plays its full diversity and complexity of use of coastal part and a willingness to adopt a areas. co-operative approach are all part of There were other major research and CSIRO's contribution to building a research management advances during the competitive Australian economy and year, many of them outlined elsewhere in maintaining our environmental assets. The this Annual Report, together illustrating the Board is confident that CSIRO, under the range and potential of CSIRO's work. Two strong and inspired leadership of Dr John particularly exciting projects are the Stocker and his management team, has · development of the world's largest worked velY effectively toward these magnesite deposit in Queensland and an outcomes in 1991-92 and that the on-line
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