Irrigation Modernisation — Smart Water for Australian Farms

Pipe the open channels, sensor the soils, satellite the crops. Modernise every major irrigation system in Australia. More food with less water.

This page is part of Growing Australia. A practical platform for a stronger, more resilient Australia: 53 investments across six national priorities.

Six national priorities

• Powering Australia — sovereign fuel & energy ($71.9B)
• Making It Here — sovereign manufacturing ($42.0B)
• Cyber Australia — sovereign compute & connectivity ($30.2B)
• Feeding Australia — water, food, medicines ($30.2B)
• Our Neighbourhood — Pacific partnerships ($20.8B)
• Building Australia — factory-built homes, precinct housing factories

27 Growth Precincts

• Hunter Valley Growth Precinct — network flagship, advanced assembly
• Pilbara Growth Precinct — battery materials, direct reduced iron, hydrogen
• Gladstone Growth Precinct — green aluminium, critical minerals
• Townsville Growth Precinct — rare earth magnets, Pacific gateway
• Whyalla Growth Precinct — flagship pilot: green steel, titanium
• Kwinana Growth Precinct — chemicals, sovereign cells, chip packaging
• Tennant Creek Growth Precinct — sovereign fuel, power & compute
• Port Augusta Growth Precinct — grid stability & dispatchable solar
• Collie Growth Precinct — battery manufacturing, grid storage
• Henderson Growth Precinct — sovereign merchant fleet, AUKUS sustainment
• Darwin Growth Precinct — strategic fuel reserve, Indo-Pacific cooperation
• Canberra Growth Precinct — sovereign data centre estate
• Geelong Growth Precinct — hyperscale data, sovereign drones
• Cairns Growth Precinct — Pacific cable landing, repair vessel
• Perth Growth Precinct — submarine cable hub, Indian Ocean gateway
• Murray Bridge Growth Precinct — cold chain, food processing
• Emerald Growth Precinct — irrigation, processing, beef
• Kununurra Growth Precinct — Kimberley agricultural expansion
• Bell Bay Growth Precinct — green aluminium, ferroalloys
• Mount Isa Growth Precinct — copper, zinc, lead, phosphate
• Latrobe Valley Growth Precinct — grid firming, transmission, ammonia
• Port Kembla Growth Precinct — green steel, offshore wind components
• Geraldton Growth Precinct — rare earths, sovereign fertiliser, Mid West industry
• Portland Growth Precinct — sovereign aluminium, Southern Ocean wind
• Riverina / Sunraysia Growth Network — cold chain, food processing
• Mount Gambier Growth Precinct — engineered timber for the national build
• Toongabbie Growth Precinct — pharmaceutical sovereignty
• Adelaide Growth Precinct — defence, space & guided weapons (later stage)
• Mulwala–Benalla Energetics — propellants & munitions (costed, $2.5B)
• Dubbo Growth Precinct — critical-minerals processing (later stage)
• Sydney Growth Precinct — deep tech & undersea autonomy (later stage)
• Sugarbag Growth Precinct — high-purity quartz (later stage)
• Siviour Growth Precinct — graphite anode (later stage)
• Olympic Dam Growth Precinct — copper refining & reserve (later stage)
• Melbourne–Parkville Growth Precinct — biomedical & vaccines (later stage)
• Hobart Growth Precinct — Antarctic gateway (later stage)

The plan, the methodology, and how it's funded

• Costing model — $201.4B long-term register, 53 investments
• Implementation roadmap
• Methodology
• Strategic Reserves Architecture
• Citations & sources
• Funding — Green Bonds, public equity, co-investment and project revenue
• Policy fit — connect existing programs and fill the gaps
• Seven supply chains — how the precincts connect
• The Engine Room — how Growth Precincts work
• Data Is the New Oil — sovereign compute (WATTLE)
• WATTLE Central — classified core (Canberra)
• WATTLE Geelong — data sovereignty (Geelong)
• WATTLE Compute — sovereign AI training (Tennant Creek)
• WATTLE Labs — physical experimental campus (Henderson)
• WATTLE Field — agricultural intelligence (Emerald)
• Australia's Cable Strategy
• Northern Fuel Pipeline
• Irrigation Modernisation
• What it costs — build resilience before a crisis
• Cost of living & housing
• Whyalla flagship pilot — start here

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