Claire Clutterham (Sturt, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Following the recently announced $3.9 billion Albanese Labor government investment at the Osborne Naval Shipyard in Adelaide's north, they are building, preparing and planning for the greatest security partnership in this country's history—AUKUS. By the end of this decade, Australia will begin building its first SSN-AUKUS class boats in Osborne, the beating heart of this national endeavour.

To support the planned construction and operation of the submarine construction yard, enabling works have commenced to optimise access routes and traffic flows around the site, because thousands of additional highly skilled workers will need to access the site to build the boats. Of those thousands of additional workers, some of them will be trained at the Skills and Training Academy being built at Osborne, following a $480 million investment into Australia's naval shipbuilding and submarine construction workforce by the Albanese Labor government. The STAC will be supported by Australia's sovereign build partners, BAE systems and ASC, and is critical to growing our skilled workforce so that we can build our defence future.

The re-election of the Malinauskas Labor government last weekend means both state and federal Labor will continue to work together to encourage effort, collaboration and investment across our country as we upgrade and expand our defence capability in the interests of our national and regional security.

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