The talk around Canberra at the moment is about the reports of the government asking departments to find 5 per cent cuts, or a “re-prioritisation” to use Finance Minister Katy Gallagher’s words.

The word use is quite pertinent, given the CSIRO’s announcement of its cuts last week contained the line that the cuts were a “sharpened focus” that meant “other research activities will need to be deprioritised”.

That re-prioritisation has ended up meaning the following........

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