The Pawsey Centre Project will provide a supercomputing facility to support the needs of the Australian radio astronomy research community, as well researchers in other areas of computational and data-intensive science, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology and geoinformatics. The investment will also provide additional support for the computational and data processing capabilities required to fully implement the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescopes.