An acquaintance of mine was quite heavily involved with the CSIRO in Clayton. Their observations suggest the latter - a lot of very smart people, but also some

An acquaintance of mine was quite heavily involved with the CSIRO in Clayton. Their observations suggest the latter - a lot of very smart people, but also some serious conflicts of interest when it comes to funding allocation. Apparently this was always an issue, but accelerated in the mid-2010s after their funding was cut by the Abbott government (this is not intended as a partisan statement; for what it's worth the person who told me this was quite politically apathetic).