Achievements by decade
2010
2000
- Air Cargo Scanner
- Cattle genome project
- Chicken interferon gamma
- DHA canola
- Ecologically sustainable fisheries and marine industries
- HySSIL™ building material
- Insulin and epidermal growth factor receptor structures
- Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project
- NovoSorb™ biodegradable polymer
- Panoptic™ search engine
- Pulsar surveys and the discovery of the double pulsar
- QEMSCAN® mineral analysis
- Radio astronomy amplifiers using millimetre wavelength imaging
- Rainforest frogs study – discovery of chytridiomycosis
- Seabed ore systems
- Sediment quality assessment frameworks for water ecosystems
- SilviScan™ rapid wood analysis
- Simulations of marine ecosystems dynamics
- UltraBattery™
- Water allocation practices
- Wireless network (gigabit)
1990
- Bacterial drug resistance, gene cassettes and integrons
- Dairy products for improved human health
- Effluent-irrigated plantations
- Elast-Eon™ biocompatible polyurethane
- Energy research and development in CSIRO
- Entomopathogenic nematodes
- Extended wear contact lenses
- FLOWERING LOCUS C and its control of the initiation of flowering in plants
- Genetically modified cotton varieties
- Hendra virus identification
- Hydraulic fracturing in mining
- Hydrodec – good oil on electricity
- Infectious bursal disease virus vaccine
- LANDTEM
- Low emission vehicles
- MIEX® water purification process
- Nickel deposits
- OPTIM™ fibre processing
- Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study
- RAFT polymerisation
- RNAi
- RoadCrack system
- Solospun™
- Spatial Information Systems
- Supercapacitors
- Thickener technology for mineral processing
- Tuberculosis diagnosis in animals and humans
- Wheat breeding in Australia’s high rainfall zone
- Wireless LANs
- X-ray phase-contrast imaging
1980
- Atmospheric dynamics and predictability
- AUSSAT-B and other antenna research
- Australia Telescope Compact Array
- Barrier Reef Image Analysis System (BRIAN)
- BCAider
- Beta-carotene industry establishment
- BIOCLIM – the first species distribution modelling system
- Ceramic Fuel Cells
- Coalscan – on-line analysis instruments for the coal industry
- Cotton breeding and new cotton varieties
- Engineered performance of timber
- Gene shears
- Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor discovery
- GrazFeed
- Iodine deficiency
- Leucaena toxicity solution
- Nitroxide-mediated living radical polymerisation
- North-West Shelf gas platforms
- Polymer banknotes
- Potyvirus taxonomy
- Regolith geochemistry for mineral exploration
- Relenza®
- Rust resistance in plants
- Salvinia biocontrol
- SIROFLO®
- Sirospun
- Spectacle lens design
- Synchro-Pulse Controlled Drop Transfer welding system
- Wildlife ecology
- Zirconia powders process
1970
- Burns injury reductions through improved textile flammabality standards
- C4 Photosynthesis
- Cycloprothrin – the first designer insecticide
- DELTA taxonomic computer programs
- Greenhouse effect and climate change
- Influenza virus – how epidemics and pandemics emerge
- Interscan aircraft landing system
- Objective measurement of wool
- Optical fibre nephelometer
- Optically Variable Devices
- Oxygen sensor (SIRO2)
- Remote sensing
- SIROFLOC
- SiroSmelt
- Superconductivity – its contribution to the absolute volt
- Tanning waste minimisation processes
- Vacuum pump (oil-free) for sophiscated instruments and industries
1960
- Antennas for radio telescopes and satellite communications
- Cattle for the tropics
- Cell membranes and how living organisms resist the cold
- Dung beetle program
- Mechanised cheese making
- Parkes radio telescope and the Apollo 11 moon landing
- Prawn fishing industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Self-twist yarn
- Sirex wasp eradication
- Skeleton weed biocontrol
- Softly detergent
- Transforming the Australian Wine Industry
- Wool fibre structure
1950
- Atomic absorption spectroscopy
- Genetic selection for multiple births in sheep
- Measuring the absolute ohm
- Myxomatosis to control rabbits
- Parkes radio telescope construction
- Radio astronomy – observing explosions on the sun
- Radio astronomy at Dover Heights
- SiroSet
- Solar hot water systems
- Waterfowl in Australia
1940
- Aerogard
- Cloud seeding
- CSIRAC – Australia’s first computer
- Enzyme technology and fellmongering
- Gastro-intestinal parasite control of ruminants
- Pastures for the north
- Radar
- Radar and the birth of radio astronomy in Australia at Collaroy Plateau
- Rainforests – Australia’s green cathedrals
1930
- Black disease vaccine for sheep
- Cobalt deficiency and the cure for coast disease
- Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia eradication
- Sheep blowfly and other insect pests
- Soil Map of Australia