Submission for the next round of Cooperative Research Centre Project funding were due yesterday and CRC Association chief Tony Peacock was warning bidders not to leave it late. “The system will shut-down right on 5.00pm and the Department” (of Industry, Innovation and Science) “runs the atomic clock, so you can’t argue.”

Dr Peacock is way too polite to mention the time when a temperamental computer system in the department caused CRC bids to miss a deadline (CMM October 26 2016).