WA & NZ Join in Mega Science Bid

The Australian and New Zealand governments have agreed to join forces to bid for the A$2.5 billion (NZ$3.1 billion) international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. The formal arrangement will be signed by New Zealand’s Economic Development Minister Gerry Brownlee and the Australian Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, at the Australia-New Zealand Leadership Forum in Sydney this morning.

The SKA is a large-scale, new-generation radio-telescope that will be by far the most powerful of its type in the world, with a discovery potential 10,000 times greater than current instruments. The SKA will see up to four thousand antennas spread over a five thousand kilometre baseline to create a single deep space listening device.

 The telescope – able to see back to the formation of the first stars – is one of the world’s most significant mega-science projects – on a par with the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. Australia and New Zealand are one of the two shortlisted sites – the other is in Southern Africa. If the array is constructed it will be constructed in Western Austalia. Read more about SKA


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C2030 Perth - Big picture ideas

Big picture ideas for Western Australia were presented by Brett McCarthy, The West Australian, Steve Woodland, State Government Architect, Alan R Dodge AM and Elizabeth Shaw, UN Youth Ambassador
  • Perth should be home to more scientific bodies
  • High speed trains with monorails linking major centres away from the central rail network including the airport, universities and city centres
  • Cultural centre on the Indian Ocean rim
  • World centre of indigenous culture
  • River of lights along the river
  • Mix of retail, residential and business in the CBD
  • Make Perth attractive for the type of people we want here including innovative, community minded people
  • Home to international students from around the world
  • Retain people with quality of life & critical mass
  • Adapt time to our needs. Longer opening hours for shops & cultural centres given our long working days
  • Bold leadership required
  • Link Kings Park to the city of Perth
  • Develop a sense of identity
  • Change collective mindset to say yes more often
  • Look to the future
  • Develop Cottesloe foreshore

 


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