Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the AUKUS deal will 'shape and strengthen' Australia's economy for 'decades into the future' as it will provide job opportunities and advances in technology.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the AUKUS deal will “shape and strengthen” Australia’s economy for “decades into the future” as it will provide job opportunities and advances in technology.
“This represents the single biggest investment in Australia’s defence capability in our history, and the single biggest leap in terms of capacity and use of technology in our history as well,” he said during Question Time. “This will be an Australian sovereign capability, once the Australian flag appears on a plane, a piece of equipment, a ship, a submarine then it is controlled by Australia and it operates at the direction of the government of Australia,” Mr Albanese said.
“The building of nuclear-powered submarines in Adelaide, that will be built by Australian workers with Australian products, having Australian skills and producing 20,000 direct Australian jobs, as well as a massive multiplier effect on our capacity to have advanced manufacturing in this country.”
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