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Nick darcy fronts media after final olympic appeal.

The team has been handed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport by Australian cycling boss, George Atkins, who believes that the UCI should be allowed to continue to regulate the sport.

"To say that there is no cycling in South Africa would be unfair, as we are well on the way to achieving our goal of introducing compulsory seat belts by 2017," Atkins said yesterday in the statement.

"Furthermore, the proposed UCI regime would allow for greater competitive parity to develop in the sport and for the sport to be judged by its own rules.

"The proposed UCI rules would also lead to greater transparency between the UCI and its members, which means it is impossible to hide the fact that there is a big gap between the UCI and its own code of ethics."

The UCI is currently considering whether or not to set regulations on seat belts.

UCI general secretary, Brian Cookson, also said that the ban on drugs testing for riders in 2016 would be upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but would not go into details.

In a statement, the British Cycling chief executive said: "We need to make cycling an Olympic sport. If we want to change the culture of our sport and improve the welfare of future athletes then the UCI must act now.

"We have the best anti-doping policy in world sport and the UCI has made some progress in reducing doping but we need to improve the way this is done and ensure that if we are to make cycling an Olympic sport, we work together across cycling to make that happen."

Olympic committee president, Brian Cookson, has dismissed the claims of the Australian cycling boss, saying: "George Atkins' comments show that we need a different culture at the UCI and not a return to the old way of doing things, which has resulted in a few terrible riders winning medals because they are from Europe and Australia."

Former Olympic champion and Australian Olympic gold medallist and current BBC Sport commentator Brian Cookson says there are issues that need to be addressed in order for South Africa to become an Olympic state.

He said: "It's the first time that you see a group of people saying they want to be the first country to ban the use of drugs in cycling.

"There are some problems with drug testing and that has to be worked out in the next few years, because we have a very different sporting culture to that of the UK and the US."

However, former Olympic silver medallist and commentator, Ben Dixon, says the cycling world has been wrong to look at South Africa and take it for granted, which might well result in cycling living in "
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Australias science budget uninspiring", "incompetence", "waste of taxpayer resources", "disaster for the planet", "a failure of leadership" and "a missed opportunity" (emphasis added).

In another opinion piece, Dr David Nelms writes that "The Government's science budget is woefully inadequate and has no impact on health, education or economic competitiveness", while the Government's National Science Centre director Andrew White writes that "the science budget should come under a strict review as we look to meet future environmental and economic challenges".

In a third opinion piece, The Australian's science and environment editor Michael Egan writes that,

A reduction in the funding to the National Science Centre вЂ” which has an estimated annual $200 million cost вЂ” is an opportunity to return some focus to our most important scientific research and to increase Australian science, research and innovation by supporting science-based decision-making and promoting a wider understanding of the importance of research to future development and use of resources. The science budget's lack of transparency and lack of oversight is leading to some disquiet among some in the scientific community, but the Government needs to recognise that public trust in science is at risk, and needs to move much faster to reform and improve the science budget.

The four opinion pieces and the accompanying accompanying blogs are a clear illustration of that.

The evidence on this issue from the past 10 months was compelling. The science budget was the most unpopular part of the budget. It was the one area where there was very little debate. And the argument that the science budget was unaffordable or underfunded is demonstrably true. It's the first time I've seen evidence that these findings have been broadly shared.

This is a message for the Government. Don't be distracted by this election campaign, with its campaign-season spin, and try to make the science budget a priority for government. It may be politically difficult, but there is no doubt it will help fund key science-related programs.

The Science and Technology Council has argued, with similar arguments from the scientific community, that this year the Science and Technology Budget should be lowered to meet the needs of the National Science Centre, the Health and Disability Service, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and, more importantly, reduce the overall budget cost.

The science budget should have at its core the priorities of public health, innovation and employment. The science budget needs to be a critical component of any coherent national policy to meet those objectives.

The Science and Technology Council has recently provided new funding for the Climate Change Authority. But while the Climate Change Authority's science spending is set to increase from $2.3 billion in 2014-15 to a target of $10.5 billion in the 2017-18 funding window