Australia's national science agency has defended its ability to deliver research and technology, as it confirmed plans for almost a quarter of job losses to come from a key environmental unit.
The CSIRO last November said up to 350 research positions would be slashed as the "cost of doing science has gone up".
Originally, almost half of those jobs were expected to come from the agency's environmental research unit, which includes climate adaption science.
But executives from the agency confirmed during budget estimates on Tuesday evening that while 92 staff from the unit are affected, 86 roles will be redundancies.
CSIRO acting chief executive Elanor Huntington said there had been a change in the "composition" of the job cuts.
"We've received a very significant amount of feedback through that process, all of which we've read and thought about very carefully," she told the public hearing.
