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The Australian Research Council has announced funding of $20.6 million for a new astronomy Centre of Excellence, to be known as the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) .

The centre is a collaboration between the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ; The University of Sydney; The University of Melbourne; Swinburne University of Technology; and The Australian National University, with national and international research partners.

ICRAR's Professor Lister Staveley-Smith will be deputy director, with Professor Bryan Gaensler from The University of Sydney as the centre's director. The centre will be administered from The University of Sydney.

The funding will provide 15 new staff members for ICRAR, split between ICRAR’s partners Curtin University and The University of Western Australia.