Why a distributed network rather than a single precinct?

The Riverina / Sunraysia region spans 600+ km across two states, with crop specialisation by district (citrus in the Sunraysia, rice at Leeton and Griffith, almonds at Robinvale, dairy at Goulburn). A single processing precinct wouldn't serve any district efficiently. The model instead establishes eight anchor processing sites coordinated through a shared cold-chain backbone — keeping value capture distributed across the region.

What is dairy fortification?

Adding vitamins (A, D), minerals, and protein concentrates to liquid milk to produce shelf-stable, longer-life, higher-nutrition dairy products for export. Major demand from Asian markets. The Riverina precinct includes ultra-high-temperature pasteurisation and fortification lines that capture this export value rather than shipping raw milk powder offshore.

How does the precinct help the local food-processing workforce?

The Riverina has lost more than ten major processing plants in the past decade — Murray Goulburn, Saputo, multiple meat works. Each closure left a skilled workforce stranded. The eight new anchor sites rebuild that processing base using the same workforce, retraining where needed, with co-located TAFE updating skills for modern process lines.

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