We cover the science sector from Canberra’s Press Gallery.
Key topics include education, medicine, health, innovation, and research.
Our daily Bulletins report statements and publications by politicians, agencies, and interest groups.
Bulletins deliver links to primary documents – no ads, no analysis, no spin.
Headings in Bulletins are links to our searchable database. Search Tips
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History
From 1999 to 2004 Science Media provided a subscription-based news service, an online database and networking services focused on innovation, commercialisation of research, and government policy.
In 2005 Science Media began providing daily email bulletins of links to announcements in the sciences, technology, innovation, education, environment, ICT and agriculture. This service shifted to a subscription model in 2006 and has an expanding client base across Australia and overseas.
Directors
Simon Grose
Simon is Science Media’s Parliamentary Press Gallery Correspondent and a freelance S&T writer and editor. He joined CSIRO Public Affairs in Canberra in 1988 and from 1990–93 was press secretary to a Federal Minister. From 1994 to 2002 he was S&T Editor and Computing Editor for The Canberra Times.
Since 2002 he has been a contributor to The Canberra Times and other publications including Crikey, Nature Medicine, and Australasian Science.
He won the 2008 Engineers Australia award for Excellence in Engineering Journalism. In 2006 he was recognised as a Science Journalism Laureate by Purdue University of Indiana, and in 2004 he won the German Journalism Award. He has been a finalist and highly commended in the Eureka Science Journalism Awards, the IT Journo Awards, and the Walkley Award for Commentary, Analysis and Critique.
Peter Quiddington
Peter is one of Australia’s most experienced science and technology writers. His general science articles and commentaries on science policy have appeared in leading publications, including the Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Boston Globe and New Scientist. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has won several scholarships and awards including the prestigious Michael Daley Award and the Institution of Engineers Award for excellence in science and technology reporting. He is currently completing doctoral research in higher education policy.