THE BUILD — FOUR PHASES, ONE DIRECTION
The SBC is built in four phases over 20 years. Each phase funds the next from corridor revenue. Phase 0.1 is actionable this term. Phase 0 stops the HSRA tunnel. Phases 1–3 complete the continental network.
ACT NOW · THIS TERM
PHASE 0.1
SYDNEY → NEWCASTLE
The CCN Sydney–Newcastle line already works. Remove freight — send it inland on Phase 0’s dedicated tracks — upgrade the existing surface to 200km/h. Sydney to Newcastle in 60–65 minutes. ~$3–5B. No tunnel. Stops the $93B HSRA. Delivers this term.
~$3–5B
Opens ~2028
Zero tunnels
FULL CASE →
IMMEDIATE · STOPS THE TUNNEL
PHASE 0
MELBOURNE → BRISBANE INLAND
1,940km Melbourne–Brisbane inland corridor. 465km new-build (WSA–Newcastle). Zero tunnels. 8 services. The direct alternative to the $93B HSRA tunnel — same cost, 12 years earlier, runs through Robertson.
$88B volume
Planning now
8 services
PHASE 0 DETAIL →
YEARS 1–8
PHASE 1
SBC#1 & SBC#2 · ASIA LINKS
SBC#1 Brisbane–Perth (runs through Robertson). SBC#2 Darwin–Port Augusta. Singapore HVDC link. INDO link 1. PNG link. NZ link. Funded from Phase 0 HVDC and freight revenue.
2 corridors
Asia links begin
Self-funded
SBC PROSPECTUS →
YEARS 5–20
PHASES 2 & 3
ALL SIX CORRIDORS · COMPLETE
SBC#3–6 complete the continental network. Gulf Coast–Adelaide. Port Hedland–Mackay. Broome–Esperance. Mt Isa–Perth. Full Asia Link network. 20,400km total. Australia connected end to end.
6 corridors
20,400km
Full Asia Link
SBC PROSPECTUS →
| # | Service | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | HVDC POWER | 108GW at ±1,100kV. Six HVDC lines per corridor. Powers every city, town and mine site at 6c/kWh. |
| 02 | SOVEREIGN FIBRE | 96 fibre ducts. Gigabit broadband to every corridor town. Terabit backbone connecting Darwin to Singapore. |
| 03 | WATER CONDUIT | 1m community pipe (Phase 0) upgrading to full aqueduct (Phase 1). Spur connections to towns within 50km. |
| 04 | GAS + H₂ PIPELINE | H₂-ready X80 steel pipeline. Interlinks every Australian gas field plus PNG import. $6/GJ national gas price target. |
| 05 | FREIGHT RAIL ×3 | Three standard gauge electrified freight tracks. Double-stack hi-cube capable. 1,800m trains. |
| 06 | MAGLEV 500+km/h | Electromagnetic suspension. No contact, no friction, no track wear. Melbourne–Brisbane ~3hrs 53min. |
| 07 | HYPERLOOP SLOT | 6m structural slot built in at zero extra cost. Ready when hyperloop technology matures. |
| 08 | LPG PIPELINE | Liquefied petroleum gas distribution to every corridor town and industrial user along the route. |
THE PYLON — WHAT EACH CORRIDOR CARRIES
Every SBC corridor is built on a single elevated pylon structure carrying eight parallel infrastructure services. One easement. One construction mobilisation. One maintenance network. Built once, used forever.
Pylon cross-section · Maglev 500+km/h ×2 · HVDC ×6 (108GW) · Hyperloop 1,000km/h · Gas / H₂ / Fibre pipelines · Aqueduct 10,000GL/yr · Freight Rail ×3
THE SIX CORRIDORS
Six lines drawn across the map of Australia. Each carrying eleven parallel services. Together they connect every coast, open the interior, and build a new Australian civilisation.
SBC #1 — FIRST BUILD · THROUGH FARRER
BRISBANE → PERTH
Roma · Bourke · Cobar · Mildura → Perth
The Great East-West Corridor. Connects Brisbane to Perth by land for the first time. Passes through Robertson — the pilot corridor towns begin near Roma. The most transformative single infrastructure investment in Australian history.
~4,000 km
SBC #2
DARWIN → PORT AUGUSTA
Through the Northern Territory · South Australia
The North-South Spine. Opens the Top End to the national grid. Carries the Alice Hub water system — monsoon rainfall pumped south to the MacDonnell Ranges, then gravity-fed to Adelaide and the Murray-Darling.
~2,400 km
SBC #3
MURRAY → GULF OF CARPENTARIA
Murray River · NSW · QLD · Gulf of Carpentaria
The North-South Spine. Connects the Murray Basin to the Gulfs open as corridor water and power arrive together. Connects the tropical north to the temperate south through country that has never been irrigated at scale.
~2,500 km
SBC #4
PORT HEDLAND → MACKAY
Pilbara · Queensland interior
The Western Diagonal. Connects the Pilbara mineral heartland to the east coast grid. Green aluminium and lithium battery manufacturing made viable — 6c/kWh industrial power changes the economics of everything.
~3,200 km
SBC #5
BROOME → ESPERANCE
Western Australia interior
The Southwest Diagonal. Completes the WA grid and opens the Kimberley and Great Sandy Desert corridors. The most challenging build — and the most transformative for WA's vast, undeveloped interior.
~1,800 km
SBC #6
MOUNT ISA → PERTH
Queensland · Northern Territory · Western Australia
The Central Diagonal. Through the Red Centre via Alice Springs and the MacDonnell Ranges. Makes Alice Springs a genuine inland hub. Connects Australia's mineral heartland west to east through the corridor that carries the Alice Hub water system.
~2,700 km
THE ALICE HUB — WATER FROM THE MONSOON NORTH
The SBC corridor is also Australia's water pipeline. Monsoon rainfall captured in the north, pumped using cheap corridor solar to the Alice Hub at 550m elevation in the MacDonnell Ranges, then gravity-fed south to Adelaide and the Murray-Darling. The economics that made Bradfield's 1938 vision impossible now work.
Alice Hub water system · Darwin (30m) → pumped via solar to MacDonnell Ranges (550m) → gravity flow to Coober Pedy → Port Augusta (15m) · Total distance ~3,016km
THE REVENUE LOCK
73% × 50% × 49% = $17.88 per $100 of gross commodity value at point of sale — not profit, which can be engineered to zero. Every allocation is constitutionally locked. No government can redirect it. A referendum is required to change it.
| Allocation | Share | $/yr | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal → SBC Infrastructure Trust | 50% federal | $43.9B | Builds the corridors. 49% industry equity / 51% sovereign. Constitutionally locked to infrastructure. |
| Federal → Sovereign Revenue Pool | 50% federal | $43.9B | Defence top-up → budget support → debt reduction → income tax falls. Priority waterfall below. |
| States of Extraction | 25% REL | $30.1B | Direct to states. CGC clawback abolished. States keep what their resources earn. |
| Traditional Owner Fund | 2% REL | $2.4B | Constitutionally guaranteed. Administered on country. Community-controlled. |
| Gold (physical metal) | Separate | ~$39.8B | Paid to RBA/Treasury vault. Excluded from cash pool. Rebuilds Australia's gold reserve. |
The Sovereign Revenue Pool — $43.9B/yr — flows through a constitutionally locked priority waterfall. In order, every time, no exceptions:
PRIORITY 1
DEFENCE TOP-UP
3% of GDP. ~$23B/yr above current spend. No AUKUS — sovereign drone capability across three spheres instead. Australia's defence funded by its own resources.
PRIORITY 2
BUDGET SUPPORT
Contributes to federal revenue alongside income tax. Partially offsets the income tax cut (~$50B/yr cost). Budget balances at strong commodity prices.
PRIORITY 3
DEBT ACCELERATION
Surplus after 1 and 2 flows to sovereign debt reduction. $900B+ federal debt eliminated as SBC scales. Constitutionally quarantined — no government can redirect it.
SBC PROFIT
TAX FALLS — NOT PAYMENTS
Govt 51% share ~$11.4B/yr → 100% to debt reduction. As debt milestones are hit: income tax falls 30%→27%→24%→20% over 10 years. Lower taxes permanently.
REL Formula — 73% × 50% × 49% — Locked by Legislation
$87.6B
Total REL/yr
$43.9B
SBC Trust/yr
$43.9B
Sovereign Pool/yr
$30.1B
States direct/yr
$2.4B
Traditional Owners/yr
$11.4B
Govt profit → debt/yr
20%
Income tax floor Yr10
~$39.8B
Gold to RBA vault/yr
THE NORWAY PARALLEL
Norway found oil in 1969. They created Equinor. They taxed resource extraction at 78%. They built a sovereign wealth fund. Today it is worth $2.8 trillion — approximately $500,000 per Norwegian citizen.
Australia has been extracting resources for 50 years. We have almost nothing to show for it. Not because the resources weren't there. Because the governance wasn't.
The SBC changes that. Permanently. Constitutionally. For every Australian alive today and every Australian yet to be born.
$2.8T
Norway SWF today
$0
Australia SWF today
78%
Norway resource tax
<30%
Australia effective rate
THE SBC SERIES — 14 TWO-PAGERS
Each two-pager covers a specific aspect of the SBC in depth — problems, solutions, and the comparison with what we have now. Download any or all.
One corridor. Eight services. HVDC power, sovereign fibre, water, gas and hydrogen, electrified freight, the fastest train on earth, a hyperloop slot, and LPG — the complete foundations of a modern continental economy, carried into the Australian interior for the first time in history.
— MMP Federal Platform
1. The Pylon
55m elevated structure. 8 services. 108GW HVDC. All infrastructure elevated above flood level. One build, eight returns.
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2. Seven Spines
Power · Water · Gas · Data · Highway · Freight Rail · Maglev. Every corridor carries all seven simultaneously.
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3. Maglev & Hyperloop
500+km/h maglev. 1,000km/h hyperloop Phase 2 Phase 2. Perth to Sydney under 7 hours. Japanese or Chinese built. Australian owned.
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4. Freight Rail ×3
Three standard gauge electrified tracks. 60-70% freight cost reduction. Brisbane to Perth inland for the first time.
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5. Corridor Towns
200 towns. $150/wk rent. Near-zero power. School, medical, Green Zone, healing hub, aged care — from day one.
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6. Farming & Water
Bradfield scheme updated. Alice Hub at 550m. 30,000 GL/yr north to south. Murray-Darling restored. Buybacks stop day one.
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7. Manufacturing
Lithium batteries 700× value. Green aluminium. Green steel. Electric road trains. $310B saved building domestic vs importing.
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8. AI & Compute
Sovereign data centres on SBC corridor. 3-5c/kWh — cheapest compute on earth. Australian AI institute. Sell to Asia.
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9. Asia Energy Link
HVDC to Singapore Phase 1. Green hydrogen export. Compute export. Water export. Australia as Asia's trusted sovereign supplier.
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10. The Costing
$140-210B first decade. REL funds it. No budget appropriation. Self-funding from Year 3. Norway comparison. Citizen Dividend.
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11. Capital Structure
Six layers of sovereign capital. REL + super bonds + corridor revenue. No budget appropriation. Self-funding from Year 3.
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12. Spaceport
28°S. 2,000km downrange desert. Sovereign methane pipeline. Full supply chain. Booster recovery on rail — world first.
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14. Housing
Community Farm Trials. Empty commercial buildings converted to community living. Granny flats as of right. Ghost home taxes. SBC opens housing at continental scale.
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13. Net Zero & Green Industry
6c/kWh changes everything. Green H₂ $1.50/kg. Asia Energy Link. Carbon credits $75B/yr. Green steel, aluminium, batteries.
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Phase 0 — East Coast Spine
The immediate plan. Melbourne to Brisbane through Robertson. Zero tunnels. 8 services. Planning now — build 2027+. The HSRA alternative.
Explore Phase 0 →
SBC Prospectus v62
The complete 16-chapter SBC document — all six corridors, Alice Hub, water revolution, sovereign AI, funding model. Full detail.
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SBC Business Case v1 — NEW
The investment document. HSRA problem, east coast spine, national project, funding model, engineering spec, 36 references. For ministers, miners, and funds.
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Phase 0 Submission v4 — NEW
88 pages. 27 reasons the SBC beats the HSRA. Tunnel risk, route comparison, Melbourne-Brisbane spine. Submitted to government.
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The Middle East has oil. Norway has oil. For a hundred years, the countries that controlled energy controlled the world. In the 21st century, the energy is sunlight — and Australia has more of it than any nation on earth. The Sovereign Build Corporation is how we claim what is ours.
— MMP Federal Platform