1. The Australian Research Council Presented at Science 50:50 event 8 March 2016 Dr Fiona Cameron, Executive Director for Biological Sciences and Biotechnology

2. Commonwealth Investment in R&D 2015–16 (%)

3. National Competitive Grants Programme Area of box represents funding over the period 2011–2015. N.B. - Centres of Excellence, SRIs, not awarded in every year. - ITRP and DECRA only funding since 2012 Discovery Programme Linkage Programme

4. Australian Laureate Fellowships The ARC has two special female Laureate awards that celebrate the work of two pioneering women in Higher Education in Australia (Georgina Sweet and Kathleen Fitzpatrick) Image: Veena Sahajwalla working in the UNSW SMaRT Lab Image courtesy: Professor Veena Sahajwalla

5. Success in Grants by Gender

6. Joanne Whittaker: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart 2013 L'Oréal for Women in Science Fellows ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher (DECRA) Image: Joanne Whittaker, marine geoscientist from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania Image courtesy: L'Oréal Australia/sdpmedia.com.au

7. Cleo Loi Story courtesy: www.smh.com.au Story reported on The Sydney Morning Herald website, 1 June 2015

8. Real-time imaging of plasma tubes in the Earth’s ionosphere

9. Researchers by sector of employment

10. ARC’s Industrial Transformation Research Programme: Opening Training Centres around the country

11. Thank you