Shared infrastructure

Why this matters

Queensland is more than 7 times the size of Great Britain, and more than half of our population lives outside the capital city. Reliable, quality and connected infrastructure is vital to keeping our economy moving.

Primary industries rely on enabling infrastructure for water, energy, telecommunications and transport to do business, and reach consumers and markets. Processing infrastructure is critical to enable maximum value from our primary production. Along the supply chain, efficient, cost-effective and resilient infrastructure is key to our competitiveness and our ability to move food, fibre and foliage from its origin to storage centres, processors, distributors and domestic and global markets.

Collaborating across sectors and seamlessly integrating infrastructure reduces operational costs, enhances accessibility and fosters innovation. By leveraging shared assets, primary industries can avoid duplicating investments, improve resource management and quickly adapt to challenges. This ultimately boosts our competitive advantage and delivers long-term profitability and sustainability.

Strong fit-for-purpose infrastructure attracts investment in primary industries, supports rural employment, and creates a stable regional workforce and thriving industry.

Goals

Connected and shared infrastructure enables Queensland's primary industries to realise supply chain efficiencies and enhance profitability growth.

Success looks like

Connected and shared infrastructure across supply chains, transport, telecommunications, energy and water drive faster production cycles, expand markets and reduce costs to boost industry confidence, global competitiveness and profitability.

Initiatives

There are many opportunities to thrive across our state, regions and agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors.

Key initiatives to harness opportunities and drive action include:

• Align infrastructure investment and planning
• Drive efficient and reliable supply chain, freight and transport infrastructure
• Leverage existing infrastructure
• Reenergise regional processing
• Secure new digital infrastructure
• Unlock access to water