Why does Australia need its own battery cell manufacturing?

Australia is the world's largest lithium producer but produces zero battery cells domestically. Every EV, grid battery and stored-energy product sold in Australia uses cells imported from China, South Korea or Japan. Kwinana's sovereign LFP (lithium iron phosphate) cell line plus a 12-month strategic reserve closes that gap and gives Australian operators access to domestically-made cells.

What is semiconductor packaging?

Chip packaging — assembly, test, packaging — is the final stage of chip manufacturing, taking the silicon die and turning it into a sealed, mounted, testable component. Australia currently has zero packaging capacity. Kwinana's clean rooms provide Australia's first sovereign chip packaging line, primarily for defence-critical and AUKUS Pillar 2 applications.

What is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)?

Jet fuel made from renewable feedstocks — waste oils, biomass, or synthesised from green hydrogen and CO₂ via Fischer-Tropsch. The aviation industry has committed to scaling SAF as its primary decarbonisation pathway. Kwinana sits next to former BP refinery infrastructure and Perth Airport — natural location for Australia's first sovereign SAF production at meaningful scale.

Growing Australia

Growing Australia is a practical platform for a stronger, more resilient Australia: 53 investments across six national priorities, designed to strengthen productive capacity, resilience and long-term living standards.

The complete long-term register has a central concept-stage estimate of $201.4 billion and is designed to be delivered gradually. A focused first-stage group is costed at about $10 billion, with the ledger, assumptions and evidence published openly.

Costing model
Citations and sources
Powering Australia
Making It Here
Cyber Australia
Feeding Australia
Our Neighbourhood
Building Australia