Brisbane city in Australian state of Queensland has enough deepwater capacity to host Royal Australian Navy vessels. The Port of Brisbane is preparing A 20-year plan to provide naval facilities. The Port of Brisbane regularly hosts large American naval ships.
A top-level defence committee would evaluate the plan to shift Sydney’s Garden Island naval facilities to Brisbane’s Fisherman Islands by 2030 if Labor party was re-elected, said Asutralia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on August 27. So far, no costs have been discussed although it has been suggested the idea could cost billions.
Revenue could be generated from the sale of defence land to fund the redevelopment of the port.
In September 2011, the then-Labor Queensland government made a submission to the Defence Department’s Posture Review January 2012 study. In that submission, the Port of Brisbane Authority was open to the idea of building naval facilities in the Brisbane port.
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