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3 unusual facts about Cooperative Research Centre


Allan Hahn

In 2000, Hahn recognised the increasing importance that technology was playing in sport science and he played a major role in the AIS being accepted as a major partner in the CRC for Micro technology.

Fishermans Bend, Victoria

Fishermans Bend is a primarily industrial centre at the foot of the West Gate Bridge and contains major establishments for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Holden Australia, Hawker de Havilland, the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, Kraft Foods, Toyota Australia, and port security.

International Grape Genome Program

In the course of their research, the Cooperative Research Centre for Viticulture (CRCV), based at the CSIRO Plant Industry Horticulture Unit in Adelaide, Australia (one of the IGGP collaborating centres) discovered that white grapes only exist today as a result of a rare genetic mutation which took place thousands of years ago.



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Michael Cuthill

Previously, Cuthill was a lecturer at the School of Environmental and Recreation Management at the University of South Australia, a Research Officer at the Great Barrier Reef Cooperative Research Centre at James Cook University, and a technical services manager at the Australian Institute of Marine Science.