Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Swinburne University of Technology

Mr KENNEDY (Hawthorn) (15:57): Today I would like to speak about the Andrews government’s commitment and investment to make Victoria the digital and innovation capital of Australia. Last week I had the pleasure of joining the Minister for Higher Education and colleagues in the other place for the announcement of Victoria’s largest supercomputer at the Hawthorn campus of Swinburne University. As a former educator I am so grateful for and impressed by the work that is undertaken at Swinburne. It is a great asset to Hawthorn, Melbourne and Victoria. This new supercomputer has the capacity to analyse and process data a million times faster than a standard computer. For lay men and women like me, this means that complex datasets that would have taken a year to process can now be done in a week. Incredible. It can use information generated from satellites, allowing our astronomers and researchers unprecedented access to outer space. This is yet another fantastic project from the Victorian Higher Education State Investment Fund. Our $5.2 million investment shows that we are a government that backs our universities, backs Hawthorn jobs and backs Hawthorn students. Swinburne University is just a great institution.