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Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has explained how it plans to trim its astronomy work, after more than AUD$100 million was cut from its budget. With around 17 per cent, or AUD$3.5 million, sliced from its already-slender astronomy budget, the agency has just $AUD17 million to …

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  1. Thorne

    Ah Australia

    Where the PM is an ex priest and the minister for science is a figment of your imagination.......

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  2. Wombling_Free

    Here in Austfailia

    The earth is flat, and full of holes where we dug all the stuff out.

    What we don't dig, we frack.

    The sky is now illegal, and it is an Act of Terrorism to look at it.

    Stars are the bits where GOD ALMIGHTY'S GLORIOUS LIGHT shines through.

    Recant! Recant!

    OR DIE...

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