<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">   As you are probably aware, the Albanese Government is looking at <a href="https://consult.industry.gov.au/sciencepriorities1">renewing Australia's Research Priorities. </a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The ASA has made a <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4yDCClx1Nji113n7NiG1Pkw?domain=asa.astronomy.org.au">submission </a>which can be found on our <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/uKJ5CmO5glupp7J2NHOrWn2?domain=asa.astronomy.org.au/">Public Documents Archive</a>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best wishes and enjoy the break!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">John L<br><br></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="text-align:left;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity))"><br></p><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">I'</span><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">m</span><font color="#000000"> </font><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79)">a</span><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)">n</span><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)">L</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">G</span></span><span style="color:rgb(142,124,195)">B</span><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">T<span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">I</span></span><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79)">Q</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)">A</span><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)">l</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">l</span><span style="color:rgb(142,124,195)">y</span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>  </b>    -     Find out more at </span></i><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/d8G0CoV1kpfDD1q43h6NoFR?domain=monash.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank"><i>monash.edu/lgbtiqa</i></a><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Professor John Lattanzio</div><div>President, Astronomical Society of Australia</div><div><br>School of Physics and Astronomy<br></div><div>Monash University Victoria 3800 AUSTRALIA<br><br></div><div>Ph:  +61 (0)3 9905-4428<br>WWW: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sydvCq71mwf11x0WjirPWvk?domain=maths.monash.edu.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">users.monash.edu.au/~johnl/</a><br><div><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/J145CwV1vMfvv48p3SRCTF1?domain=orcid.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-859X</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>---------</div></div></div><p style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity));text-align:center">"<i style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top">When you arrive in Heaven, you’ll have to leave your dog outside the gate. That’s because Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.</i>"   <span style="color:var(--text-color-1658212901230-1658212894919);font-weight:var(--ws-heading-5-font-weight);text-align:right">Mark Twain</span></p><p style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity));text-align:center"><span style="color:var(--text-color-1658212901230-1658212894919);font-weight:var(--ws-heading-5-font-weight);text-align:right">Mr Twain is no fool. He may serve <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/SH85Cvl1rKiEEPNXzS8DKNm?domain=minkah.net/" target="_blank">Her Majesty Queen Minkah I.</a></span></p></div></div></div>