Drawing on more than 50 years of construction industry experience, Modpacs is an IP licensing and support company delivering a new paradigm for Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) across Australia. Through its patented Component Housing Assembly System (CHAS), Modpacs enables builders, Indigenous enterprises, and regional businesses to participate in MMC adoption without reliance on proprietary factory-built models. The low-capital “Pop-Up Factory” model empowers low-skilled local workforces to manufacture and assemble resilient, energy-efficient homes locally, creating jobs, building regional skills, increasing housing delivery capacity, and ensuring economic benefits remain within the communities that need housing most.

The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) is the Commonwealth Government's $7 billion financing agency to support infrastructure development that generates public benefit for northern Australia.
NAIF's mandate focuses on projects that deliver public benefit, Indigenous outcomes and contribute to the sustainable growth of the region.
NAIF has committed $4.3 billion in loans across 32 projects across the north. Projects range from large-scale resource and energy developments to social infrastructure, including universities, to airport upgrades, agriculture and aquaculture developments.
In total, NAIF supported projects are forecast to deliver $33 billion in public benefit and Indigenous Outcomes for the region.
* Figures as at 31/01/2026

As strong regional universities that are deeply embedded within the northern landscape, Charles Darwin University, James Cook University and CQUniversity are the logical knowledge and capacity building partners and connectors required for future development of the North.

CDU, JCU and CQU seek to work together with the Australian Government to contribute to the sustainable social, environmental and economic development of Northern Australia. To achieve this, we have formed the Northern Australian Universities Alliance (NAUA).

Through the Alliance, we aim to work together to develop and retain the skills, education and research capabilities that are critical to the North’s key industries and communities.

Mackay Regional Council’s footprint is more than
7600km2 – five times the size of Brisbane City
Council, double Townsville and larger than Cairns
and the Sunshine Coast combined.
With a population of more than 125,000, it has a
gross regional product of $11.4 billion across a
diverse economic base, ranging from agriculture
and tourism to manufacturing and mining services.

Skills Insight works with stakeholders who share a passion for improving skills and training across the agribusiness, fibre, furnishing, food, animal and environment care industries. We are a national body with a special interest in supporting and promoting Northern Australia, given its importance for the growth, diversification and ecosystem management for the industries we cover. We are a not-for-profit, government funded, industry-led organisation and one of ten Jobs and Skills Councils. We support the voice of industry in the Australian skills and VET systems.