Benefits to Australia

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Benefits to Australia
  • Scientific innovation relevant to National Priority Areas
    • Research Priority 1: An Environmentally Sustainable Australia (Goal 1: Water – a Critical Resource and Goal 3: Developing Deep Earth Resources) and

      Research Priority 3: Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries (Goal 1: Breakthrough Sciences and Goal 2: Frontier Technologies)

  • Excellence in training of our future generation of geoscientists
  • Enhanced industry links nationally and internationally
  • Improved criteria for exploration by Australian mining companies both on- and off-shore
  • Technological innovation (scientific advances, intellectual property, commercialisation, value added consulting services)
  • Enhanced international links

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Annual Report 2004