High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Although primary production is the main industry in Australia, manufacturing in Australia is still a significant industry. The contribution of manufacturing to Australia's gross domestic product peaked in the 1960s at 25%, and had dropped to 13% by 2001-2 and 10.5% by 2005-6 In 2004-05, the manufacturing industry exported products worth $67,400 million, and employed 1.1 million people. In 2000-2001, $3300 million was spent on assistance to the manufacturing industry, with 40% going to the textile, clothing and footware industry and the passenger motor vehicle industry. At that time, manufacturing accounted for 48% of exports, and 45% of Australian research and development. In 2007, the breakdown of manufacturing by state, and the fraction of gross state product (GSP) which it contributed, were as follows