Continuing to optimise Murriyang, the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope

Murriyang, the 64-m CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope celebrates its 63rd year of scientific operation and with it welcomes a new cryogenically cooled phased array (CryoPAF) receiver. As the radio astronomy community prepares for the "SKA-era," Murriyang is undergoing a complete upgrade to its receiver fleet. In addition to the CryoPAF, the single-pixel Ultra-Wide-bandwidth Low (UWL) was installed in 2018 and its counterpart, the Ultra-Wide-bandwidth High (UWH) is in the final design phase. However, it is not just receiver upgrades that have allowed The Dish to stay at the forefront of astrophysical research: upgrades to our user interfaces, infrastructure, backends, and data formats have enabled us to offer a novel, flexible, and robust instrument while regular communication with users has ensured that we are receptive to the observer community's needs. Like many observatories, Parkes faces future budget strain, and we continue to build academic and industry partnerships to help secure our future. In this vein, the Australia Telescope National Facility is open to expressions of interest for new experiments to be deployed at our existing East Coast observatories.