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The Academy established the Australian Foundation for Science in 1990 to promote the role of science and technology in Australia and to increase its contribution to the national welfare.

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Management

Projects

• Renovation of the Academy's Dome
• Nova: Science in the news
• Interviews with Australian Scientists (Formerly Video Histories of Australian Scientists)
• Primary Investigations
• Environmental Science textbook and teachers guide
• Population and Environment Research Fund
• Kanagawa Museum of Natural History Award
• Australian Nobel Prize posters
• Public access to the papers of Sir Ernest Titterton
• Biographical memoirs
• Conservation Management Plan – IPH
• Dorothy Hill Award
• Award for research on the conservation of endangered Australian vertebrate species
• Collaborative Australian Secondary Science Program
• Australian Science Festival (external link)