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Cotton Seed Distributors 50 years – The partnership

In 2017 Cotton Seed Distributors (CSD), the only company that supplies cotton seed to Australian cotton growers, celebrated their 50th anniversary. CSD put together this video to highlight the important partnership with CSIRO to develop and market cotton that benefits growers' bottom line and is good for the environment and for rural communities.

The PIRAT System – New Generation Sewer Inspection (1996)

PIRAT – remote sensing system for sewers.

Australia in Space (1987)

In the nineteen sixties, Australia became one of the first countries to design, build and launch a satellite, and was a major partner in British and European space programs. Twenty years later, Australia has once again developed the technological capacity to be 'space qualified'.

CSIRO Medals 1998 – Research achievement – Dr Robert Leicester

Robert Leicester (CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering). For scientific contributions to knowledge of timber structural properties.

Frog Killer (2001)

Scientists around the world are joining forces to combat a deadly frog disease.

CSIRO Medals 1995 – Chairman’s Medal – Dr Keith Murray and the AAHL Team

Keith Murray and colleagues (CSIRO Animal Health). For the discovery of a previously unknown equine morbillivirus: a new disease found in horses which can also affect humans.

CSIRO Medals 2006 – Research achievement – Ken Atkinson Textile and Fibre Technology Team

Ken Atkinson and colleagues (CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology). For inventing a new method for producing multifunctional carbon nanotube yarns and transparent sheets that have a unique range of physical properties.

Essential Oils (2002)

Medicinal oil from the Waria Waria tree is providing villagers in Papua New Guinea with their only source of income.

Cane toad advance (2002)

The cane toad was introduced into Queensland in 1935 to combat the sugar cane beetle It has since spread far and wide and is now a pest.