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FEAR & GREED | Business News · Q+A: How $242bn of infrastructure spending actually gets allocated · 6 May 2026 podcast

and also the Osborne precinct in South Australia as well.

So they all, the defence and the trade, that all interacts and then that all has an impact on where we need to invest in the different asset classes across the country.

Well, we've worked really collaboratively right across the country with most of the state and territory governments.

We've also visited the locations of the vast majority of the investment opportunities that we've recommended.

So in the ports chapter alone, we went to the site for Westport in West Australia, the site for Henderson in West Australia.

We visited Osborne, most of the major ports.

and then we go through uh we have a set of criteria internally around all the different investment opportunities that come forward and then and then we make some calls on the basis of that so there's some very smart people here who who live and breathe infrastructure and uh you know you need to there's a lot of analysis behind it but also you know you have to make some calls and and in some cases we've made some bottle calls uh for particular investments but what we think is is really important for the nation

So Australia has a policy intention right now around emphasizing a shift to renewable energy generation.

And that is a major step change in how the energy system works.

And in some cases, the logistics networks and the regulatory frameworks are racing hard to try and catch up.

So we've got some relatively few recommendations around generation.

We've got a range of recommendations of particular projects in transmission.

But when we look at generation, there are particular issues emerging around how do you actually get that oversize, overmass kit, wind turbine kit in particular, from the port to a renewable energy regional site.

So to give you a sense of the scale of the task,

A wind turbine blade will be about 82 metres long, if not 102 metres long, and it will need to land in a port, say a Newcastle port, and then it will need to be loaded onto a truck, which needs a pilot and

at times a police escort, and then that needs to move through a range of regional and rural roads to get to the site.

And by 2027, based on our analysis, we think that there'll need to be 19 of those movements a day coming through, for example, Newcastle Court, to get to the Central West Orana and South West Orana Renewable Energy Zone.

So that will be fairly problematic.

So we've made a range of recommendations about how to spread the load

across the nation using ports like Geelong or Adelaide to try and spread the load more evenly across the nation.

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