The Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility: Research Achievements and Aspirations.

An overview of Australia's Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) is presented, including a survey of the accelerator infrastructure and its capabilities, as well as the beam-line instrumentation. Some recent research achievements are highlighted. Accelerator upgrades and instrumentation developments in progress are described, along with some aspirations for the longer-term development of the Facility and its associated research programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]