We do live in interesting times. On the one hand, the UK is reducing its financial contribution to the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) - it will become less Anglo and more Australian (in 5 years it will be fully 100% Oz!). On the other hand, Australia is more involved in international collaboration than ever before - and here I'm speaking of the team collaborations that go into international research, as well as being well-placed to secure the international Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project.
The scientific community has taken a look at what the coming 10 years might hold. Here's what they've said.
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/nca/DecadalPlan_web.pdf
Some light reading...
Regards,