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National Research Priorities Progress Reports

(Agencies’ progress on implementation of the National Research Priorities)

The National Research Priorities (NRPs) provide a vision of how research can:

  • contribute to Australia’s future prosperity and well being;
  • enhance the quality and impact of our research by building critical mass in priority areas; and
  • promote collaboration between research organisations and with industry.

To enable the Australian community to better observe how the Priorities are being addressed to the benefit of society, the Government requires research agencies and funding bodies to which the NRPs apply, to report on their progress in adopting their implementation plans, through their annual reports, and through the Australian Government’s Innovation Report.

In 2004, NRP research performing and funding bodies were requested to provide reports for consideration by the NRP Standing Committee. The reports were to include progress against performance indicators as set out in each agency’s own (revised) Implementation Plan.

Reporting was requested to be in a form that enables agencies’ progress in addressing the Priorities to be measured over time, and progress reports were to:

  • describe progress in adopting their implementation plans, failure to meet key objectives, and any new initiatives,
  • provide a broad overview of progress to date, and
  • address the following matters:
    (a) significant achievements that support longer term objectives;
    (b) support for individual ‘priority goals’;
    (c) any failures to meet key deliverables;
    (d) any changes of direction, major new initiatives or other developments of a significant nature that were not foreshadowed in the plan, as amended; and
    (e) progress, as appropriate, in addressing further opportunities for co-funding research and in providing leadership in under-represented areas.  This relates to the Government’s requirement that several agencies and departments take action in respect of specific priority goals and should report accordingly.

The  NRP Standing Committee is chaired by the Australian Government’s Chief Scientist Dr Jim Peacock and has met on a number of occasions to consider agencies’ progress in implementing the priorities. The Committee has so far provided agencies with feedback on their 2003-04 and 2004-05 NRP progress reports.  The feedback on 2005-06 reports will be finalised at the Committee’s December 2006 meeting.


Organisation NRP-implementation Progress Report 2004 NRP-implementation Progress Report 2005 Executive Summary NRP-implementation Progress Report 2006 Executive Summary
Australian Government Antarctic Division (AGAD) - Department of the Environment and Heritage
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  • Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS)
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  • Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
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    • Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

      Part 1 - Progress with implementation of the new goals

      Part 2 - Progress with general NRP implementation

      Part 1
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    • Part 1
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    • Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC)
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    • Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)
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    • Australian Institute of Health & Welfare (AIHW)
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    • Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
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    • Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
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    • Australian Research Council (ARC)
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    • Bureau of Meteorology (BoM)
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    • Bureau of Transport & Regional Economics (BTRE)
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    • Cooperative Research Centres programme (CRC)

      CRC programme - Attachment

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      • Attachment

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      • Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
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      • Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO)
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      • Department of Veteran’s Affairs - Health & Medical Research Programme
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      • Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
        • Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE)
        • Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS)
        • Rural R&D Corporations (RDCs)
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      • Geoscience Australia (GA)
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      • Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA)

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        • International Science Linkages (ISL)
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        • National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
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          • Science Connections Programme (SCOPE)
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            In addition to the above, some agencies were specifically identified to take a lead or coordinating role in some specific areas of national importance. These were:

            • ARC and NHMRC (Systemic impediments to implementation including barriers to collaboration);
            • NHMRC (leading on ‘A healthy start to life’ and ‘Ageing well, ageing productively’);
            • Prime Minister & Cabinet (Research support for counter terrorism); and
            • Attorney-General’s (Critical infrastructure protection and crime prevention).

            These agencies were asked to provide advice on their progress with their lead or coordinating roles (with the matters identified) to the NRP Standing Committee.

            The ARC and NHMRC reports are given above.

            Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet
            (Research support for counter-terrorism)
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            Attorney-General’s Department
            (Critical infrastructure protection and crime prevention)
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