Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last week I was delighted to welcome Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic, as well as South Australian Deputy Premier and Ministry for Industry, Innovation and Science Susan Close, to the Tonsley Innovation District in Boothby for a very exciting announcement. The Albanese-Labor government has committed $10 million towards expanding the Flinders University and BAE Systems Factory of the Future at Tonsley. This $10 million is in addition to the Malinauskas state Labor government's $4 million commitment.

The Factory of the Future is Australia's first industrial-scale high-value advanced manufacturing facility. The more than 250 companies and organisations involved in the facility are driving the technological innovation vital for our future competitiveness and also providing hundreds of secure, highly paid and highly skilled jobs. There are now more people working at Tonsley than there were when it was an operating Mitsubishi car plant.

This government is rightly committed to establishing Australia as a country that makes things again, and I am absolutely determined that Boothby will be at the heart of Australia's manufacturing future. That's why I'm so delighted that this government is investing in the future of manufacturing and starting with this major investment in Boothby.