Western Australia’s Strategic Industrial Areas
Planned, activated and connected in strategic locations across the State
Acknowledgement of Country
The Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation acknowledges the Traditional Custodians throughout Western Australia and their continuing connection to the land, waters and community. We pay our respects to all members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and their cultures, and to Elders past and present.
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Premier’s foreword
My Government is committed to driving economic growth and creating long-term jobs across Western Australia, and vital to this mission is the development of our strategic industrial areas.
These industrial areas are crucial to attracting major investments in clean energy industries and setting up our economy for the future.
That’s why, as part of the 2024-25 State Budget, we’ve established the $500 million Strategic Industries Fund.
We’ll invest to unlock our State’s full potential, positioning Western Australia as a global renewable energy powerhouse.
The Strategic Industries Fund will help us to equip our industrial areas with the infrastructure needed for the mega-projects of the future.
On top of this, my Government is investing billions into ports, roads, power and water across the State – the economic infrastructure that supports our major industries.
And we’ve set aside another $100 million to develop a Critical Minerals Advanced Processing Common User Facility. This facility would be pivotal to meeting the demand for minerals crucial to the sustainable energy future, reinforcing our commitment to battery industries in our State.
The Western Australian Government’s investment in strategic industrial areas is about so much more than economic growth – we are ensuring Western Australia stays at the global forefront of innovation, sustainability and the industries of the future.
We are building a solid foundation for future generations and ensuring our great State thrives in a rapidly changing global environment.
Hon Roger Cook MLA
Premier; Minister for State and Industry Development, Jobs and Trade; Hydrogen Industry; Public Sector Management; FederalState Relations
Activating opportunities
Western Australia is committed to economic diversification to respond to current and emerging export opportunities, and drive Australia’s long-term economic development.
This commitment to diversification is articulated in Diversify WA , the State’s economic development framework, and supported by Future State: Accelerating Diversify WA , which provides a targeted, holistic, whole-of-government approach to attracting investment and growing trade opportunities.
These frameworks highlight the key role of project-ready land and access to infrastructure as critical enablers that are required to support the growth of both existing and new industries across multiple sectors of the economy.
Ensuring a supply of industrial land, and associated enabling infrastructure, supports businesses to grow their operations and
attracts investment by increasing our nation’s competitive offerings.
It supports the development of new and emerging industries, in particular those industries that will underpin the green energy transition, such as the production and scaling of renewable hydrogen, advanced critical minerals processing, development of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technology, and decommissioning of oil and gas infrastructure.
In recognition of the importance of land and infrastructure in attracting investment in industries, Western Australia is actively developing strategic industrial areas around our State, supporting delivery of a diversified State economy as well as the global and national decarbonisation journey.
Western Australia’s advantage: our strategic industrial areas
Western Australia’s strategic industrial areas are designed for use by strategic and heavy industries that generate large investment, employment and value of production.
Our strategic industrial areas have been selected for their proximity to large resource projects and key infrastructure, including roads, rail and ports.
Our State features more than 10 strategic industrial areas, located across Western Australia:
» Goldfields
» Mid West
» Pilbara
» South West
» Western Trade Coast.
Driving growth in strategic industries
There has been significant interest in access to industrial land across Western Australia for renewable hydrogen, critical minerals processing and other job-creating industries.
This year, the Western Australian Government announced an investment of half a billion dollars to unlock the State’s strategic industrial areas and pave the way for Western Australia as a global clean energy powerhouse.
The $500 million Strategic Industries Fund will deliver common-user and other enabling infrastructure at strategic industrial areas across regional and metropolitan WA.
The Strategic Industries Fund will be used to prepare land for future industrial projects, ensuring Western Australia is primed for sustainable growth and development.
Diversify WA: Our targeted diversification opportunities
Targeted
Cross-sector enablers to accelerate growth
Advanced
Environmental,
Activating our strategic industrial areas
Activation program in place by the Western Australian Government
What we’re funding Our actions
$5.4 billion
to support the energy transition, including through new generation, transmission and storage across Western Australia’s major electricity networks—the SWIS and NWIS.
$500 million
Strategic Industries Fund to deliver commonuser and other enabling infrastructure at SIAs across the State.
$160 million
of industrial lease incentives to attract largescale clean energy projects in the Anketell, Boodarie, Maitland, Mungari, Oakajee, and Shotts SIAs.
$140 million
for the Pilbara Hydrogen Hub, to be a major centre for hydrogen production and export, with potential to become an international gateway to Australian-made green steel and iron. $60 million for the Mid West Hydrogen Hub including early cultural heritage, land and port planning, water and power studies and an access road.
$200 million
to unlock strategic industrial land and attract new industries to the Collie region.
$100 million
committment to develop critical mineral common-user processing facilities to enhance Australia’s processing capacity, sovereign capability and economic resilience.
Diversify WA, our economic development framework, guides development of WA industries across priority sectors, including energy, mining, and mining equipment, technology and services. Future State identifies target investment opportunities, including renewable hydrogen, critical minerals processing, CCUS technology and decommissioning, and identifies infrastructure and project ready land as key enablers.
Western Australia’s Battery and Critical Minerals Strategy: 2024-2030 identifies unlocking investment in enabling infrastructure and project ready land as a key focus area.
The Western Australian Renewable Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap supports development of the renewable hydrogen industry and has identified WA’s industrial land as a key comparative advantage.
Establishment of the Coordinator General to enhance environmental approvals by accelerating regulatory reforms and improving cross-agency collaboration.
Establishment of PoweringWA to coordinate actions needed in delivering electricity infrastructure required to decarbonise the South West Interconnected System (SWIS).
Developing SIA activation plans in a regional context to drive a connected and aligned approach to planning activities.
Our facilitators and delivery
Western Australia’s Lead Agency Framework ensures proponents are guided effectively through the State’s approvals processes.
Target industries are being determined for priority SIA precincts to maximise connectivity to supporting infrastructure and sector complementarity.
Significant investment is also being delivered to drive environmental approvals reform, including $18 million to reduce bottlenecks and allow for rapid deployment of additional resources for critical approvals.
Delivery and implementation of the Strategic Industries Fund and the broader coordination of strategic industrial area activation and new energy and decarbonisation initiatives in Western Australia are supported by a Program Management Office.
Western Australia’s cross-agency Industrial Lands Steering Committee provides strategic advice and guidance in industrial land activation and is responsible for identifying key infrastructure requirements for industrial lands across the State.
Industry Reference Groups—made up of industry and local stakeholders for SIAs in each region—raise area-wide issues and ensures that activities of government are focused on the development of new job creating industries, and supporting existing industry capability in each area.
Activation and collaboration opportunities
Western Australia presents holistic opportunities to accelerate regional industry development, economic growth and sustainable jobs.
State-wide themes for activation and opportunities for collaboration include:
• Whole of Government coordination: establishing robust and regular processes to enable government to make decisions to support regional economic activation and job creation.
• Corridor and land assembly: establishing a mechanism (lead agency status) for infrastructure and transport corridor planning and delivery across all of government.
• Native Title, cultural heritage and environmental approvals: defining and delivering Native Title, cultural heritage and environmental foundational requirements for all strategic industrial areas that will ensure industrial lands are project ready.
• Transmission grid: accelerating and making available regional transmission grid expansion plans and assumptions for beyond 2027.
• Water delivery: developing new project delivery approaches to materially increase the State’s capacity to deliver multiple new water projects concurrently.
Our strategic infrastructure
Western Australia’s strategic industrial areas (SIAs) are being developed to support delivery of the State and Australia’s decarbonisation and diversification agenda.
Western Australia’s SIAs are strategic areas that play an important role in supporting downstream processing projects and provide essential jobs and business opportunities.
• State-wide port and transport coordination: defining and mandating port growth requirements across the State that align with regional industry development priorities.
Target industries
Western Australia currently has $150 billion worth of projects with allocated land within the State’s strategic industrial areas.
Since 2022, $81.5 billion of projects have been allocated almost 3,000 hectares of strategic industrial land in Western Australia, showing the strong interest building for strategic industrial land in the State.
Western Australia’s target industries include:
» hydrogen and ammonia
» critical minerals and mineral processing
» natural gas
» advanced manufacturing
» renewables generation
» green steel.
8 — Western Australia’s Strategic Industrial Areas
Located across Western Australia, our SIAs are:
» planned for downstream processing and other heavy and strategic industries, and surrounded by industry protection zones to ensure heavy industry can continue to operate without land use conflict
» designed to connect with resources in the region, existing infrastructure and centres of population
» optimised for connection to port, rail, road and other major service infrastructure, such as power, gas, process water and telecommunications.
Western Australia’s infrastructure
Strategic Industrial Areas
Port Authority ports
Main roads
Ashburton North
Oakajee
Perth Outer
South West
Great Southern
Alba ny
Bunbury
Pe rt h
Ger aldton
Fremantle
Dampie r
Ashbur to n Bro ome Po rt Hedland
Ka lgoorlie-Boulder E spe ra nce Mid West
Wheatbelt
Peel
Pilbara
Gascoyne
Boodarie
Maitland
Shotts
Kwinana
Kemerton Mirambeena
Western Trade Coast
Target industries
The Western Trade Coast has a complex and unique industrial ecosystem which produces a range of industrial products that serve as critical inputs into local and global supply chains.
The Western Trade Coast is a multi-billiondollar industrial precinct, which supplies Western Australia’s leading industries and exports its products to markets around the world. It comprises a number of strategic and heavy industrial areas, including:
» Kwinana SIA: well-developed centre for chemical and resource-based processing industries, directly adjacent to the Fremantle Port’s deep-water bulk materials facilities and associated road and rail and networks.
» Australian Marine Complex (AMC): the State’s key shipbuilding and sustainment industrial precinct, supporting the manufacturing, fabrication, assembly and maintenance requirements of the marine, defence, energy and resource industries.
» Rockingham SIA: hosting established chemical, resource-based processing industries and other processing industries for WA products.
Existing works of Government
Economic Contribution Study: The Rapid Current State Assessment of the Western Trade Coast
» Definition of target industries for the precinct
» Western Trade Coast Infrastructure Strategy
» Westport planning for container trade
» Anketell Thomas Road Freight Corridor
» AMC Common User Facility Development
Next phase activation investment
Infrastructure upgrades across the following disciplines are identified in the Western Trade Coast Infrastructure Strategy:
» Transport (rail and road)
» Maritime
» Utilities (energy and water)
» Latitude32 optimisation
Coordination activities for regional activation
The Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation (JTSI) is coordinating across Government and with industry to deliver a comprehensive land and infrastructure strategy for the Western Trade Coast.
The next phase will see coordinated whole-of-Government cooperation on the implementation of the strategy.
Kwinana SIA, Western Trade Coast CREDIT: DevelopmentWA
High level projects in the Western Trade Coast
Key:
Rockingham SIA, Western Trade Coast CREDIT: DevelopmentWA
Pilbara
Western Australia’s Pilbara features several strategic industrial areas (SIAs) across the region, including:
» The Burrup SIA : a well-established industrial estate home to major liquefied natural gas (LNG) and downstream processing projects based on local resources, particularly natural gas. The area is located on the Burrup Peninsula (Murujuga), recently added to Australia’s World Heritage tentative list.
» Ashburton North SIA : comprising a multiuser port and industrial land for LNG, other hydrocarbon-based and natural gas processing opportunities, and related support industries.
» Boodarie SIA : positioned to accommodate a range of mineral, gas processing and other industries requiring access to the Port Hedland port.
» Anketell SIA : planned to include a multiuser port and provide industrial land for a range of minerals, gas processing and other strategic industries.
» Maitland SIA : designed to accommodate downstream processing projects based on local resources, particularly natural gas, iron ore and salt.
Existing works of Government
» Hydrogen/ammonia pipeline between Maitland and the Burrup (Pilbara Hydrogen Hub)
» Lumsden Point multi-user facility and logistics hub development
» Lumsden Point road upgrades (Pilbara Hydrogen Hub)
» Pilbara Energy Transformation Plan
Next phase activation investment
Industry development in the Pilbara region is dependent on:
» Native Title and cultural heritage protection.
» Expanding energy transmission capabilities aligned to planned industry development.
» Increasing current water supply capacity.
» Progressing environmental approvals.
Coordination activities for regional activation
» Native Title coordination: securing outcomes for Traditional Owner groups.
» Coordinated land and corridor planning: connected approach to land corridor planning in a purposeful way, working with Traditional Owners.
» Environmental coordination: progressing environmental processes between State and Commonwealth.
» Transmission requirements: understanding proponent transmission requirements and determining requirements to expand transmission grid capacity.
» Port laydown areas: investigating solutions and funding for regional port laydown areas.
Burrup SIA, Pilbara CREDIT: DevelopmentWA
High level projects in the Pilbara
Key:
Ashburton North SIA, Pilbara
CREDIT: DevelopmentWA
Mid West
The Oakajee SIA is planned to create a new heavy industrial area and multi-user deep water port for strategic and downstream processing industries to service Western Australia’s Mid West region.
The greenfield Oakajee site is recognised for its world class wind and solar energy potential, which is ideal for the production of renewable hydrogen for domestic and commercial use, advanced manufacturing and export.
The Western Australian Government is working collaboratively with industry to understand what is required to transform the Oakajee SIA into a globally competitive hydrogen hub.
Existing works of Government
» North Region Energy Project (NREP) to unlock electrical transmission capacity
» Geraldton Mount Magnet Road upgrade proposal
» Geraldton Port Maximisation Project (PmaxP)
» Oakajee Narngulu Infrastructure Corridor planning (ONIC)
» Oakajee SIA activation planning and studies
» Oakajee SIA access road
Next phase activation investment
Industry development in the Mid West region is dependent on:
» Port facilities to meet planned project scale
» Increasing current water supply capacity
» Expanding transmission capabilities aligned to planned industry development
» Supporting access corridors for the Oakajee SIA
Coordination activities for regional activation
» Maximising port facilities: supporting economic development of the region, including planning for the development of port infrastructure to enable new industries and opportunities.
» Water: further studies on water demand and proponent requirements.
» Transmission: understanding proponent transmission requirements and determining requirements to expand transmission grid capacity.
» Environmental coordination: progressing environmental processes between State and Commonwealth.
» Land corridor coordination: increasing coordination and guidance for how land corridors can be used by different agencies and for different types of infrastructure.
» Cross-government collaboration: aligning planning activities through sharing information across government agencies.
High level projects in the Mid West
Key:
Oakajee SIA, Mid West
CREDIT: DevelopmentWA
South West
The South West region of Western Australia includes:
» Kemerton SIA: home to projects based on local resources, particularly silica sands, lithium, gas and other minerals.
» Shotts SIA: planned to accommodate downstream processing industries in the Collie coal basin.
Existing works of Government
» Collie ($650 million)
Just Transition investment
» Coolangatta activation planning (water, road, heritage, power, structure plan, and environmental surveys)
» Kemerton activation planning (water, heritage, power, structure plan, and environmental assessment)
» Feasibility Study Greenbushes to Bunbury Rail Line
» Advanced Manufacturing and Technology Hub (AMTECH) Feasibility Study
» Bunbury Port Master Plan (2023)
Next phase activation investment
Industry development in the South West region is dependent on:
» Progressing environmental approvals
» Increasing current water supply capacity
» Expanding energy transmission capabilities aligned to planned industry development
» Delivering efficiencies in transportation access
Coordination activities for regional activation
» Kemerton land use: providing Government direction to maximise and optimise land in the Kemerton SIA for renewable generation projects.
» Environmental assessment: Kemerton SIA strategic environmental assessment to enable land activation.
» Collie future industrial land use: investing in rail and transmission infrastructure upgrades.
» Rail and road upgrades: supporting Kemerton and Coolangatta activation.
» Port planning: coordinated and holistic port planning, including road and rail linkages in the region.
» Transmission expansion: accelerating transmission grid expansion to support activation activities.
Shotts SIA, South West CREDIT: DevelopmentWA
High level projects in the South West
Key:
Kemerton SIA, South West
CREDIT: DevelopmentWA
Goldfields
Western Australia’s Goldfields region includes the Mungari SIA designed to support industries involved in the concentrating, smelting and refining of local resources, particularly gold and nickel, and accommodating other strategic industries.
Existing works of Government
» South West Interconnected System enhancements (West Kalgoorlie Terminal)
» Anzac Drive West (General Industrial Area) development
» Goldfields and Agricultural Region Water Supply Scheme (GAWS) upgrade designing
» Rail realignment planning
» Lot 505 Power Generation supply
Mungari SIA, Goldfields CREDIT: DevelopmentWA
Next phase activation investment
Industry development in the Goldfields region is dependent on:
» Increasing current water supply capacity
» Expanding energy transmission capabilities aligned to planned industry development
» Native Title and cultural heritage protection
Coordination activities for regional activation
» Goldfields and Agricultural Region Water Supply Scheme (GAWS) upgrades: increasing water supply to the Goldfields region. Upgrades will be staged to allow incremental increases to water supply, enabling the activation of the Goldfields industrial area.
» SWIS upgrades: ensuring power infrastructure solutions for each industrial area are aligned with the State’s long-term planning for upgrades to the SWIS.
» Land access: assembling and funding land for general industrial development.
» Aboriginal partnerships: partnering with local communities in developing solutions to maximise opportunities for Aboriginal peoples, including in relation to water, environmental approvals and cultural heritage.
» Infrastructure planning: developing utility demand forecasts for all Goldfields industrial areas to inform planning for service requirements.
» Roads and rail: developing a coordinated plan for road and rail infrastructure upgrades required to improve access to all Goldfields industrial areas.
High level projects in the Goldfields
Key:
Mungari SIA, Goldfields
CREDIT: DevelopmentWA
Contact us
Western Australia’s strategic industrial areas (SIAs) are led by the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation and delivered by DevelopmentWA.
Proponents interested in locating in an SIA can contact the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation or DevelopmentWA to discuss their projects in more detail.
Key resources
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Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation
Level 11, 1 William Street Perth WA 6000
T: +61 (08) 6277 3000
E: jtsi@jtsi.wa.gov.au
W: www.jtsi.wa.gov.au
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