The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) was created from the old DERA[?] in 2001 to take over those international collaboration, research and scientific areas that were deemed unsuitable for the too-be-privatised QinetiQ[?].
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Matthew Flinders, (1774-1814), first to circumnavigate Australia and Tasmania, ...