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(Nick Moore) It was back in the ‘90s
we realised that to be successful
we needed to domesticate the black tiger prawn,
in other words, breed them in captivity.
So we asked CSIRO to give us a hand
and basically what they’ve come and helped us with
is the health screening of them,
and now, as we’ve got to the end of the whole road, the genetics.
The relationship with CSIRO has been very beneficial
to the whole industry, every year our prawns are improving.
We’ve got a prawn that we consider to be as good as anyone in the world.
Not only do they grow faster and eat less food,
and obviously create a far better economic return for us,
it’s a matter of getting your animals into the ponds when you require them
and that’s priceless.
(Ben Waters) It’s been great to watch the
Alzheimer’s work come together over the last couple of years.
We asked CSIRO to put their world’s best clinical trial
together with our imaging agent flutemetamol
and our diagnostic imaging machines.
So we would image a sample of people in Australia
and try and demonstrate that this imaging agent
does pick up the early onset signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
We’re now at that exciting stage where we’re imaging
real patients and
building a database that’s going to help in future
to detect Alzheimer’s ten,
20-years earlier than is possible at the moment,
allowing patients to be alert to the possibility
to change their lifestyle, to change
what they’re doing
and hopefully prevent the full on set of Alzheimer’s disease.
(Carole Jaye) When I was first employed
at Middle Harbour school my role was
to lift the profile of science in the school.
We asked CSIRO to support us and help us
as best they can.
We were offered the opportunity
to be part of the Scientist in Schools program,
and it appealed to me
because we’d be able to use a real scientist in our program.
As an Australian community
we are very lucky to have an organisation like CSIRO
using their knowledge and financial input into the school system,
into education,
we are able to ensure that
the students of today are the scientists and engineers of tomorrow.
(Simon Watt) We looked around the world.
Looked at what all the globalised peers were doing
and the focus was heavily targeted towards
power management and energy management
in the home and small businesses.
There really wasn’t an all in one solution
so we asked CSIRO to assist us
in developing a platform that our end users could use
to manage and monitor their energy usage.
So the software that resides in Budii
communicates with the peripheral devices around the home
such as wall plugs,
washing machines,
air conditioners.
We predict they could probably save around about
two to four hundred dollars a year off their energy bill
without really trying,
which is a significant saving.
(Joe Ross) Well CSIRO has,
over the last sort of five to ten years,
has placed a lot of importance on
creating partnerships with Aboriginal people.
At NAILSMA, based in Darwin,
the group was looking at establishing methodologies
for this carbon farming initiative
and one of them was fire abatement.
We asked CSIRO to assist the Aboriginal Traditional Owners
to work towards improving up the methodology.
Nowadays, it’s very important that
Aboriginal people in northern Australia,
with the assistance of NAILSMA,
be able to capture the traditional science
and knowledge that’s embedded in the Aboriginal community.
The West Arnhem Land Project has demonstrated
how that relationship can be formed
and that very viable enterprises can be created.
(Arnold May) Our core business has always been in
food manufacture, primarily
muesli based breakfast cereals
and more recently we’ve been making muesli bars.
We’d heard about a new grain
that CSIRO had developed over many years
called BARELYmax.
Well it has got the highest fibre of any
grain that’s on the market
and it has a very particular type of fibre
and that’s called resistant starch.
We asked CSIRO to more or less authenticate
the type of products that we were making
in terms of the health
that we were offering our consumers
and they’ve been able to do that.
We’re a stronger business now
and I have had a very good
overall relationship with CSIRO and very happy
to have worked with them and hopefully we’ll continue to work very
successfully with them into the future.
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