tools, and reporting this information to the Board. The resolution calls on the Department to come into compliance with the law within a matter of weeks.

This resolution is the result of an eleventh-hour request that the Department made to the Board at their September meeting. Just five days before the October meeting, the Department sought leave to be allowed six additional months before creating, implementing, training, and tracking housing and safety for all individuals and for transgender and intersex individuals specifically. The only reason the Department gave for needing an additional six months was the need for a new computer system. The Department was unable to explain why it has taken them close to a year under the new city standards, and since 2012 under the federal standards,to direct another light signal; optical buffers to slow light pulses, making them easier to handle; and three-dimensional photonic circuits. The centre's participants at Sydney University and the Australian National University are about a month away from demonstrating an optical switch, he says. (The centre's other members are Macquarie University, University of Technology Sydney, and Swinburne University of Technology.)

Although scientists around the world work on the same problem, Professor Eggleton says the centre takes a unique approach. It is working with a soft glass called chalcogenide, which changes its refracting properties when hit by high-intensity pulses of light - becoming a basic switch. The glass switches at very low powers, which makes it easier to work with and promises more practical applications.

Chalcogenide can also be printed, to create