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The Australian Academy of Science has long supported the need for Australia and Australian governments to invest in what is important for our future.

Australia’s scientists say the passage of the Defence Trade Control Amendment Bill 2023 today improves the balance between protecting Australia’s national security and enabling the benefits that open scientific collaboration offer Australia and the globe.

Supercomputers enhance our everyday lives. Australia needs a coordinated national strategy to secure its high-performance computing and data infrastructure.

The Australian Academy of Science supports the Australian Government’s interim response to the discussion paper for supporting responsible artificial intelligence (AI), including its plans to ensure AI is designed, developed and deployed safely and responsibly.

The very architecture and nature of Australia’s capacity to engage in the global research system is at stake with the introduction of the Defence Trade Control Amendment Bill in Parliament.

The nation is at risk of being left behind when it comes to high-performance computing. Experts at an Academy roundtable are calling for an international exascale computing facility to be hosted in Australia.

Thank you, Professors Steven Chown and Frances Separovic for your summary of the Academy's 2023 Symposium.

We have now come to the end of the 2023 Symposium. Today we have heard from a range of thought leaders from Defence, foreign affairs, our security agencies, the university and research sectors, and industry. The big question we sought to answer today was: “have we got the balance right between national security and research openness?”

No single country will be capable of solving the problems faced by our planet—from dwindling natural resources to collapsing ecosystems, rising sea levels or the eruption of new pandemics.