Durack — what Growing Australia delivers

Member for Durack: Melissa Price (Liberal Party) · Western Australia

The Pilbara Growth Precinct sits inside Durack — $4.5B of platform investment, 6,500 direct jobs, with the government building the solar, the industrial estate, the CSIRO research lab and the TAFE training campus, while private operators take the leases and create the manufacturing jobs. Pilbara produces Lithium hydroxide, cathode precursors, battery materials.

Beyond the precinct network, Durack also benefits from the national programs the plan funds. Australia currently holds about 24 days of liquid fuel — well under the 90-day reserve the International Energy Agency requires of member countries. Growing Australia funds the four sites that take the country to 90 days, and Growth Precinct solar generation delivers wholesale industrial power at 2.5–3 cents per kilowatt-hour, half today's wholesale rate. Cheaper sovereign power flows through to household bills in Durack as it does everywhere else.

Australia imports more than 90% of its medicines, runs on 24 days of fuel cover, and has watched its manufacturing share of the economy fall from 25% in the 1980s to under 6% today. Growing Australia is a costed, public-domain plan to reverse that — $169.1 billion across five sovereign-industry programs over ten years, roughly 2.0% of federal spending. The same federal spending that funds the NDIS, AUKUS, and Medicare. Durack's share isn't a number on a spreadsheet somewhere — it's whatever the Pilbara Growth Precinct actually puts into the local economy.

Growth Precincts near Durack (6 within commute distance)

• Pilbara Growth Precinct — $4.5B · 6,500 jobs · inside Durack. Lithium hydroxide, cathode precursors, battery materials
• Kununurra Growth Precinct — $1.9B · 2,530 jobs · inside Durack. Mango processing, chia + chickpea value-add, sandalwood oil (Quintis-anchored), tropical produce, Kimberley meat processing, Ord River modernisation
• Geraldton Growth Precinct — $3.3B · 4,000 jobs · inside Durack. Rare-earth metal & alloy, green ammonia, grain milling, TiO₂ pigment (mineral sands), seafood processing
• Kwinana Growth Precinct — $4.6B · 5,400 jobs · 1.1h drive. Battery electrolyte, sovereign LFP cell line, semiconductor packaging & testing clean rooms, agricultural chemicals, industrial gases
• Henderson Growth Precinct — $5.5B · 8,700 jobs · 0.9h drive. Sovereign merchant fleet (tankers, grain carriers, multi-role logistics), Arafura-class OPVs, AUKUS Pillar 1 submarine sustainment, autonomous maritime systems, commercial + export vessels
• Perth Cable Hub Growth Precinct — $3.2B · 3,750 jobs · 30 min from Durack. Indian Ocean cable landing, data centre, Indian Ocean digital backbone

National programs that reach Durack

• 90-day strategic fuel reserve — ending Australia's 24-day vulnerability with refining at four sovereign sites.
• Lower energy bills — Growth Precinct solar at 2.5–3¢/kWh wholesale, flowing through to household bills.
• Regional broadband upgrades — closing the city–regions internet gap.
• Sovereign cyber shield — one number to call, ASD-led response, training at every TAFE.
• Strategic grain reserves — 500,000-tonne minimum, ending the bad-season-equals-crisis pattern.
• National medicines stockpile — $1B for antibiotics, insulin and surgical supplies. Australia currently imports 90%+.

Take action

• Write to Melissa Price — pre-written email, postcode-matched, 30 seconds.
• See the full $169.1B costing model — every line item, every assumption, every source.
• Read the methodology — bottom-up benchmarks, employment estimates, key assumptions.
• Growing Australia — home

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