Jane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

As Lucy Guest at the NCI told me today, 'Pick a field of science, and that's where you will find a benefit.' For example, the NCI's partnership with the Bureau of Meteorology enables increasingly accurate weather predictions, knowing where and how rain will fall and where frost will set in and enables our agricultural sector and our farmers to make far better choices, to optimise yield, to minimise cost and to minimise waste.

I understand that Senator Watt believes supercomputing is something that involves wearing your underpants on the outside and watching funny cat videos, but that's not what we're doing here. In fact, Gadi is helping build more accurate models of fire movement, helping to predict bushfire behaviour and save lives and save livelihoods. With researchers leveraging Gadi to help the model of the next-generation personalised genomic medicine, Australians and people around the world can look forward to improved treatments for rare diseases like cancers and more. (Time expired)