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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Defence Shipbuilding

Mr PATTERSON (Morphett) (14:20): My question is for the Premier. Can the Premier detail whether Navantia's proposal includes offshoring any South Australian jobs to Spain? If so, does the Premier support this? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr PATTERSON:The Australian newspaper revealed over the weekend that there is zero spare capacity at Osborne to support Navantia building air warfare destroyers and the only feasible option would be to offshore the build to support Spanish shipyards. Today, there are over 1,500 employees working at Osborne on the Hunter class program.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:21): We want as much naval shipbuilding work in South Australia as possible. Whether it be the FCD program, the load exercise on the Collins class, the future AUKUS submarine being built here or the Hunter program, we want to make sure that naval shipbuilding is located at its home, at the heart of the nation's shipbuilding program, which is at Osborne. That is consistent with all of this government's advocacy and will remain so for as long as we have the chance to do it.

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