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Academy Fellow Dr Graham Farquhar AO FAA FRS has become the first Australian to win a Kyoto Prize—the most prestigious international award for fields not traditionally honoured with a Nobel Prize.

Three Academy Fellows are among only 15 Australians to receive Australia’s highest accolade in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours, named as Companions (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia.

“The Paris Accord in 2015 was a landmark in global acceptance of the need to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

The ¾«¶«ÊÓƵ welcomes the changes to the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) grant funding program announced today.

Delivered 9 am Wednesday 24 May 2017, Shine Dome, Canberra

Twenty-one of Australia’s best scientists have been elected to the ¾«¶«ÊÓƵ today for their outstanding contributions to science.

Imagine a world without science, a world without scientists striving every single day to understand the world around them. It’s virtually impossible to contemplate such a reality. I often think about the collective impact on the world made by the Fellows of the ¾«¶«ÊÓƵ and remain quite awestruck at the difference their work has made to our wellbeing, the economy and our physical and designed environment. The world simply would not be as we know it today in the absence of their contribution.

Twenty-one of Australia’s best scientists have been elected to the ¾«¶«ÊÓƵ, a rare and esteemed honour, for their outstanding contributions to science.

The Academy has announced the commencement of a new initiative to develop a 10-year strategic plan for biosystematics and taxonomy in Australasia.