Brian Billard was an Australian scientist who represented the

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for the

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from 1979 to 1982. Whilst a Member of Parliament he was a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Land Settlement. Prior to his retirement in the early 2000s, headed the Military Computing Systems branch at

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's Salisbury site (now named Edinburgh), with a focus on "trusted systems". In 1997 he was appointed an adjunct professor at the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

. On retirement, and his wife Liz worked on an education project in China.Chinese Minority Education (CHiME) Project
Annual Report 2014, Summer Institute of Linguistics Australia, Page 9.

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