The 2024–25 Annual Report from Industry Innovation and Science Australia outlines key achievements and strategic priorities shaping Australia’s national innovation system.

UNSW is driving Australia’s quantum leap. Pioneering technologies in sensing, computing and secure communications that are already shaping the nation’s scientific and industrial future.

CSIRO’s Quantum Shift report provides a snapshot of Australia’s quantum readiness across awareness, adoption, cyber resilience and responsible innovation.

At Quantum World Congress 2025, Quantum Australia CEO Petra Andrén highlighted Australia’s shift from world-leading research to large-scale commercialisation, driven by a national strategy, billions in investment, accelerating startup growth, and a strong focus on industry engagement and global collaboration.

Queensland is proving how quantum innovation can enhance sport, elevate athlete wellbeing, and deliver world-class event operations worthy of a global audience in 2032.

Emergence Quantum is solving the engineering bottlenecks standing between today’s quantum prototypes and tomorrow’s scalable, commercially deployable systems.

Quantum Brilliance’s foundry, based in Melbourne Australia, will supply quantum-grade synthetic diamonds to customers worldwide, enabling compact, lightweight, room-temperature quantum computing and sensing.

Two leading Australian quantum companies, Diraq and Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), have been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to advance to Stage B of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI).

Four South Australian-developed world-leading quantum clocks have been successfully trialed in the United States, as part of Australia’s investment in AUKUS Pillar II, as another South Australian company signs a new strategic contract with a major UK defence contractor.

Diraq’s engineers are no strangers to the power of NVIDIA’s interfacing technology. Back in June, Diraq shared preliminary ways in which the team was using NVIDIA DGX Quantum for initialization, calibration and readout of its qubits.

A new CSIRO breakthrough demonstrates a quantum-secure communications link that protects data using the fundamental laws of physics. This milestone brings Australia closer to real-world quantum-safe networks, strengthening national security and future digital infrastructure.

Australia’s cyber defences must evolve as quantum computing advances. The latest ASD Cyber Threat Report names post-quantum cryptography as a national priority, and the time to prepare is now.