Albanese said the AUKUS pact – which will see a new model built at Osborne shipyard in Adelaide by the 2040s – was not just about the common interests of Australia, the UK and the US to uphold the international rule of law, but about “jobs and more jobs”.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia’s contentious new joint nuclear submarine program with allies Britain and the United States is as much about providing domestic jobs and economic prosperity as it is about national security.
“It’s about something more than our national security; it’s about jobs and economic prosperity,” he said.with Britain and vice versa and insisted that his government had been upfront and transparent about the costs of the project. He said the new submarine workforce would bring a huge benefit to South Australia, similar to how the car industry drove Australia’s post-war economy.
Albanese spoke to local apprentices Maddison Baillie, 16, and Jacob Gillibrand, 17, who showed him how to bend a metal pipe at 90 degrees using a vice.He went on to test the connectivity of electrical cables and asked worker Stuart Porter, 39, an apprentice electrician, how he ended up in the job. He told Albanese he used to be a teacher but swapped careers to become an apprentice electrician at BAE.
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