Tony Peacock from the CRC Association predicted Friday that the second stage for Round 19 of cooperative research centre funding would consist of six bids; advanced medical biotechnology, blue economy (offshore energy and seafood), future battery industries, future cities, future food systems and proposers of a SmartSat CRC. And lo, that was what the government announced, at peak media-consumption time – 8am on Saturday morning. More people would have read the prediction than the announcement.