After all, Australia has an impressive pedigree when it comes to technology world firsts

Black box flight recorders were invented and first used in Australia, as were ultrasound technology, electronic pacemakers, facsimile machines, cochlear implants and polymer banknotes. Of course, WiFi was developed by the CSIRO back in the 1990s and more recently, the quantum bit, now the basic unit of quantum computing, was created by a team of Sydney-based scientists. And I’m really just scratching the surface.