A CSIRO scientist fears the cuts will harm Australia's ability to adapt and respond to climate change, but the science agency says that's not the case.

A union branch representing CSIRO scientists is calling for urgent funding to stop the job losses.

I hope some of you here have some ideas why our government would be doing this? Is it to follow the example of the US with its axing of many climate change related programs and institutions? Is it because these scientists are going to be supplanted by AI programs? I find this situation bewildering.

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[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Australia is becoming an anti-intellectual country. Shameful that this should happen at all, let alone under a Labor government.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Don’t worry they say Albo was the left side of the centre left party