Federal Labor is promising $22 million to help bring the next generation of advanced manufacturing jobs to Townsville and North Queensland if it wins the election due in may.
The investment in the Lansdown Industrial Precinct is Northern Australia's first environmentally sustainable advanced manufacturing, technology and processing hub.
In partnership with the Palaszczuk Queensland government and the Townsville City Council, an Albanese Labor government will fund the essential enabling infrastructure behind this critical economic development, building road, rail and water infrastructure.
This project will create over 5000 jobs in construction alone, with a further 6,000 permanent ongoing jobs and 9100 indirect jobs to follow when it is fully operating.
"We need Australia to be a nation that makes things again," Labor leader Anthony Albanese said.
"Cheap, renewable energy provides us with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to boost our manufacturing sector and this commitment will help make that a reality in North Queensland."
