This is a report by the Australian Optical Society prepared in 1994 which sets out key contributions of optics to the continued wealth and job creation in the world, and in Australia, and gives a set of survey results at that time. It is useful to consider the escalating nature of these developments in the light of funding priorities and federal initiatives. It is listed here as a series of pdf documents.

The main text (21 pp) is here

In Appendix A, a series of detailed survey results are given about optical interests and activities in Australia, in order of state: