Astronomy Australia Limited is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee whose members are a range of Australian universities and research organisations. Its core business is to manage programmes which provide astronomers with access to national optical/infrared and radio astronomy infrastructure.

For a detailed description of AAL's objectives, please see the objects in clause three of the Constitution.

Upcoming Meetings

• AAL Board: 20th July 2009 (University of Tasmania, Hobart)
• AAL Board: 4th November 2009 (University of Sydney, Sydney)
• Annual General Meeting: 5th November 2009 (University of Sydney, Sydney)

News

• 5th June 2009: AAL has published a summary of the MWA review held on 16th April 2009 at Curtin University of Technology: MWA review summary.
• 21st May 2009: AAL has signed a contract with the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Anglo-Australian Observatory to provide continued access to the Magellan telescopes until 2011A inclusive. 30 nights will be available over the next two years and will be allocated by the Australian Time Assignment Committee.