Use of the Bullsbrook Centre for National Resilience (Internal Review of FOI 25-26/209)

Written by Claude Haiku 5.5 from the extracted text on 23 Oct 2026. It can miss or misread redacted and scanned pages. Check the source before relying on it.

This release comprises email correspondence between Department of Finance officers and Western Australian Department of Justice and Office of Major Infrastructure Delivery staff, from December 2025 to April 2026, about the Centre for National Resilience (CNR) in Bullsbrook, Western Australia. Finance advised that baseline care and maintenance for the Perth facility is about $4.5 to $6 million a year at zero occupancy, with operating costs rising by about 12 per cent at 50 per cent occupancy and 21 per cent at 80 per cent, excluding extra wear and maintenance. The functional design brief provides for 1,000 people. Later emails cover a site visit on 18 February 2026, a proposed prison-style program model for First Nations men, and security uplift and community approval dependencies. Substantial material is redacted under sections 47B and 47D, reflecting commercial and deliberative considerations.