The Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC) works to enhance the media’s coverage of science, for the benefit of all Australians. We provide the evidence and experts when science hits the headlines and administer the breaking science news portal for Australia and New Zealand – Scimex.org.
As an independent, not-for-profit charitable institution, financial support is crucial to ensure this important work can continue. The Centre relies on the generosity of the Australian community for funding. Media, academic institutions, government and industry all contribute to the funding of the Centre. To ensure the independence of the Centre, each sponsorship is capped at 10% of total operating costs.
Below is a list of current supporters. The highest tier of support is Foundation support followed by Gold and Affiliates. We also accept project support. For more information on how you can support us, visit our supporters page.
The following organisations have been supporters of the Centre in past years.
- APN News & Media
- ARENA (formerly the Australian Solar Institute)
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
- Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)
- Australian Institute of Policy & Science (AIPS)
- Australian Museum
- Shell Australia Ltd
- Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
- BHP
- Bond University
- Cochlear Foundation
- Cisco Systems Inc.
- CRC CARE
- DuPont
- Ernst & Young
- Federation of Australian Scientific and technological Societies (FASTS)
- Innovative Research Universities Australia (IRUA)
- Macquarie Foundation and Macquarie Bank
- National Centre for Groundwater Research & Training
- Network Ten
- South Australian Museum
- PBL Media
- Prime TV
- Queensland Government
- Resmed
- Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc.
- Sky News
- The Conversation
- Arup
- The National Australia Bank
- Agilent
- Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
- Geoscience Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS)
- Australia Pacific LNG
- Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC
- National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
- Defence Science and Technology Group
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls
- APPEA
- University of Tasmania
- O'Loughlins Lawyers
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)
- The University of Western Australia
- Mater Research
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics
- University of Newcastle
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (PEB)
- ConocoPhillips