❓ The Minister for Manufacturing provides an update on the Cook Labor government's actions to support local manufacturing, particularly in relation to transmission infrastructure and the Made in WA commitment, highlighting investments in Forrestfield and Collie.
AnsweredQoN 217Legislative Assembly
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Made in WA plan
217. Mr Yaz Mubarakai to
the Minister for Manufacturing:
I refer to the Cook
Labor government's commitment to building WA's local manufacturing capacity to
support our clean energy transition.
(1) Can the minister update the house on what
action this government is taking to support local manufacturing?
(2) Can the minister advise the house how this
government is delivering on its Made in WA commitment to deliver transmission
infrastructure here?
217. Mr Yaz Mubarakai to
the Minister for Manufacturing:
I refer to the Cook
Labor government's commitment to building WA's local manufacturing capacity to
support our clean energy transition.
(1) Can the minister update the house on what
action this government is taking to support local manufacturing?
(2) Can the minister advise the house how this
government is delivering on its Made in WA commitment to deliver transmission
infrastructure here?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(2) Thank you, Mr Speaker. I know this
is particularly relevant to you in your role as the local member for
Forrestfield. As the Premier outlined, the Premier, Deputy Premier and I were
in Forrestfield today announcing that this budget will deliver a tranche of
funding to support our Made in WA agenda. We are going to require thousands of
kilometres of transmission lines and components to connect new renewable energy
generation and battery storage, and to connect industry across the state to
that generation and storage. This is not just an infrastructure challenge; it
is also an industrial opportunity for Western Australia. Importantly, it will
also be an investment in our own supply chain resilience and sovereign capacity
to deliver a number of these components and pieces of infrastructure. We are in
global competition for many of these components and we need to be scaling up
now and have a vision for decades to come for the future of Western Australian
jobs.
We know that delivering our
transmission Made in WA election commitment is going to transition many of the
jobs in the South West, particularly those jobs that rely on coal and Collie,
and the advanced manufacturing and technology hub, or AMTECH, is going to be an
important part of that. Western Power will be an anchor tenant. This $5 million
from the Strategic Industries Fund will start to provide the services into that
site that has now been selected in Picton. It will be connected to rail and port
infrastructure, and it is of course close to a number of those large renewable
projects. We are investing $10 million to help establish a manufacturing
facility in Forrestfield, working with local steel fabricators and
manufacturers to produce those components, and that $5 million for AMTECH, to scale
up and deliver that advanced manufacturing facility. There is also $10 million
in this budget for a new local industry development fund to help Western Power
maximise its local content and production. It already has significant local
content from working with local manufacturers, but the scale of what it will need
to deliver just to build out of the South West Interconnected System means that
there is opportunity for businesses in Western Australia that have already
benefited significantly from the Deputy Premier; Minister for Transport's
leading work on building our manufacturing capacity around transport. They are
the same companies that can quickly pivot into building electricity
infrastructure.
This budget is a commitment to
an investment in our future. It is a commitment to invest in local jobs and it
is a commitment to invest in the local communities that rely on those local
jobs.
is particularly relevant to you in your role as the local member for
Forrestfield. As the Premier outlined, the Premier, Deputy Premier and I were
in Forrestfield today announcing that this budget will deliver a tranche of
funding to support our Made in WA agenda. We are going to require thousands of
kilometres of transmission lines and components to connect new renewable energy
generation and battery storage, and to connect industry across the state to
that generation and storage. This is not just an infrastructure challenge; it
is also an industrial opportunity for Western Australia. Importantly, it will
also be an investment in our own supply chain resilience and sovereign capacity
to deliver a number of these components and pieces of infrastructure. We are in
global competition for many of these components and we need to be scaling up
now and have a vision for decades to come for the future of Western Australian
jobs.
We know that delivering our
transmission Made in WA election commitment is going to transition many of the
jobs in the South West, particularly those jobs that rely on coal and Collie,
and the advanced manufacturing and technology hub, or AMTECH, is going to be an
important part of that. Western Power will be an anchor tenant. This $5 million
from the Strategic Industries Fund will start to provide the services into that
site that has now been selected in Picton. It will be connected to rail and port
infrastructure, and it is of course close to a number of those large renewable
projects. We are investing $10 million to help establish a manufacturing
facility in Forrestfield, working with local steel fabricators and
manufacturers to produce those components, and that $5 million for AMTECH, to scale
up and deliver that advanced manufacturing facility. There is also $10 million
in this budget for a new local industry development fund to help Western Power
maximise its local content and production. It already has significant local
content from working with local manufacturers, but the scale of what it will need
to deliver just to build out of the South West Interconnected System means that
there is opportunity for businesses in Western Australia that have already
benefited significantly from the Deputy Premier; Minister for Transport's
leading work on building our manufacturing capacity around transport. They are
the same companies that can quickly pivot into building electricity
infrastructure.
This budget is a commitment to
an investment in our future. It is a commitment to invest in local jobs and it
is a commitment to invest in the local communities that rely on those local
jobs.
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