Australia has benefited from a “brain gain” during the pandemic, with our best and brightest boffins returning to our comparatively stable shores, and our state-of-the-art approach to technology even luring some of the world’s best scientists.

Nowhere is this gain better demonstrated than in quantum computing, where our scientists are pushing ahead on fronts that include atomic fabrication of silicon and the use of synthetic diamonds – to name two of our most promising technologies – in a field that promises to provide the next quantum leap for the nation and the planet.