For decades manufacturing has been leaving Australian shores in favour of cheaper Asian industrial powerhouses like India and China, but now Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says its time to bring it back. 

But can Australia really compete with massive economies like the US, which is also making a strong bid to provide the technology that will underpin a clean energy future? 

If it can, indigenous Australians say they should be involved from the start, and what lessons can be learned from the innovation already happening in rural Australia?