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 fully-costed $190.1B sovereign industry plan to reduce cost-of-living pressure by rebuilding domestic capability in energy, manufacturing, cyber, food and regional partnerships.

The platform contains 48 investments across 26 Growth Precincts, with full costing assumptions and primary-source citations.

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