CSIRO spends almost $3m on climate science redundancies

By Tom McIlroy
Updated August 16 2017 - 12:50pm, first published August 15 2017 - 9:03am
Portrait of Dr Larry Marshall, Chief Executive of CSIRO. Photographed at CSIRO in North Ryde. Wednesday 25th May 2016. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 160525
Portrait of Dr Larry Marshall, Chief Executive of CSIRO. Photographed at CSIRO in North Ryde. Wednesday 25th May 2016. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 160525
Portrait of Dr Larry Marshall, Chief Executive of CSIRO. Photographed at CSIRO in North Ryde. Wednesday 25th May 2016. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 160525
Portrait of Dr Larry Marshall, Chief Executive of CSIRO. Photographed at CSIRO in North Ryde. Wednesday 25th May 2016. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 160525
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 02:  Australian Greens Senator Janet Rice speaks at a rally against government cuts to the CSIRO at the State Library of Victoria on April 2, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia.  (Photo by Paul Jeffers/Fairfax Media)
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 02: Australian Greens Senator Janet Rice speaks at a rally against government cuts to the CSIRO at the State Library of Victoria on April 2, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Paul Jeffers/Fairfax Media)

Moves to cut climate science research jobs at the CSIRO have cost taxpayers almost $3 million, despite an about face by the Turnbull government.

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