SCIENTISTS MEET IN AUSTRALIA

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24270, 30 May 1944, Page 3

SCIENTISTS MEET IN AUSTRALIA

(Rec. 8 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 29. Three hundred scientific workers from all parts of Australia as well as from the United States) and New ,Zealand, have met in Sydney. They discussed science and post-war planning, and the influence of science on war, education, industry, medicine, and agriculture. Broadcasting from London, Professor J. B. S. Haldane told the conference that Australian scientists must concentrate on problems peculiar to Australia. He advocated greater scientific research on the White Australia policy to find means to increase the population. Dr. H. C. Coombs, Director-General of Post-War Reconstruction, said that the four main requirements of the kind of world Australians were hoping for were a regular and stable job, a better standard of living and a better environment for the mass of the people, individual and family security, and -the development of the economic resources of Australia and other countries to the full. Dr. E. P. Dark, a writer on medical and social problems, said: “The great long-range work of post-war medicine must, I believe, include the abandonment of the anarchic method of private practice.”