Perth / Western Australia

With big-ticket items such as the AFL coming to Bunbury in 2025, Mr Miguel said the city would look at what other major projects it could introduce.

"We've spoken about a potential ocean pool, an art gallery, upgrades to Bicentennial Square, and a new hotel in the CBD," he said.

These are pretty small minded and/or transient projects. A city and population size like Bunbury should be thinking how to compete with Perth for actual industry share, not competing with Busselton or Margs for tourists.

Critical Minerals logistics and refining could be an area Bunbury is competitive, seeing as theres apparently reasonable quantity of Lithium down that way.

Maybe even set a course to get into battery manufacturing becoming a lithium battery specialist zone.