National Benefit

• Scientific innovation relevant to National Priority Areas 
  

Research Priority 1: An Environmentally Sustainable Australia 

Goal 1: Water – a Critical Resource

Goal 2: Transforming existing industries

Goal 6: Developing Deep Earth Resources 

Research Priority 3: Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries

Goal 1: Breakthrough Sciences 

Goal 2: Frontier Technologies

• Implementation of recommendations (relevant to CCFS) from the Theo Murphy Think Tank endorsed by Minister Martin Ferguson, April, 2011 (http://www.science.org.au/events/thinktank/thinktank2010/index.html)
  
  
• Enhanced international links
  
  
• Excellence in training of our future generation of geoscientists
  
  
• Enhanced industry links nationally and internationally
  
  
• Improved exploration tools and strategies for Australian mineral exploration companies both on- and off-shore 
  
  
• Technological innovation (scientific advances, intellectual property, commercialisation, value-added consulting services)