CSIRO book launch next week

It details many organisational changes that occurred across its 45-year history and its major research findings.

It also presents vignettes of more than 80 of the scientific and supporting staff of the 500 or so who worked there over that time.

Mr Wilson said he wrote the book because it appeared significant of the organisation, and its importance to Deniliquin, was being forgotten.

The official launch will be held Wednesday, August 21 in the Deniliquin RSL Club’s Mountbatten Room.

Open to the public, it will begin at 4pm with Deniliquin & District Historical Society president Lindsay Renwick as MC.

The launch will be followed by a CSIRO staff reunion, with some expected to travel from Queensland, South Australia, the ACT and parts of NSW and Victoria to attend.

• Mr Wilson has kindly provided a copy of Science in the Outback: The Life of CSIRO at Deniliquin and its People to the Pastoral Times to give away to a reader. Send your name and contact details by email to zoe.mcmaugh@denipt.com.au, or write them on an envelope and bring it to the PT office in Cressy St by 5pm Friday. We’ll announce the winner in next Tuesday’s edition.