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After thirty years of working for CSIRO, I retired about five years ago. It is standard policy that commenting on Government Policy even in your area of expertise can only be done with executive approval. This is sensible otherwise the media would be 'quoting' any opinion that they 'liked'. Even if it came from the tea lady or gardener or was it a Chief of
of a whole Division.
In fact on leaving or retiring from CSIRO you are obliged to sign a confidentiality agreement. This basically means you cannot pass on ANY information you obtained while working for CSIRO. This is to stop IP (Intellectual Property) theft of information that belongs to the people of Australia.
To do things any other way would be more difficult than herding scared cats.
So there is nothing sinister going on.
I still know things I cannot even talk about as it may jeopardise future patents that belong to all of us. Once any information is in the public domain no patent can be taken out on it.
Bert
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