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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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AUKMIN Ministerial Meeting

Mrs PEARCE (King) (14:24): My question is to the Premier. Can the Premier update the house on the upcoming AUKMIN ministerial meeting?

Members interjecting:

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:24): We will get that chance in a couple of weeks, but right now we are—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Hartley is warned for a final time. The Premier has the call.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Chaffey!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: On Friday—

The Hon. V.A. Tarzia interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Hartley can depart under 137A for the remainder of question time.

The honourable member for Hartley having withdrawn from the chamber:

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: On one level I welcome every time the opposition opposes Gather Round. It just reminds—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: It is a unique form of politics.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: Some people say this opposition lacks courage and I simply point them to the fact that they oppose Gather Round. That takes a unique form of political courage; long may it continue.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Morialta is on a final warning. Members to my left and right, the Premier has the call. Order, member for West Torrens!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: It turns out that it is not only the government that likes football, it is also none other than David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who I look forward to attending a footy game at Adelaide Oval with on Friday night. That will be right after David Cameron and the British Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps, will have met with the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Richard Marles, along with the foreign minister of Australia, Penny Wong, right here in South Australia.

They will be having what is known as the AUKMIN meeting just down the road in Government House, in what represents another significant milestone for our state, particularly given the nature of the AUKUS relationship which has the power to reshape South Australia's economic complexity. This matters to working people; it matters to businesses in South Australia.

We have been working in close collaboration for some months now with the federal government and with the British foreign service represented by their embassy here in Canberra, formulating the AUKMIN meeting which would traditionally happen in a location like Canberra or Sydney but instead they have chosen to have it in Adelaide. Increasingly, the rest of the nation and, indeed, parts of the world are looking to South Australia as a place for significant investment—not just in our security relationship but our industrial relationship.

BAE Systems is about to double the number of employees it has in South Australia as a result of a fully funded plan to build frigates here, which is a big departure from previous policies. We very much look forward to active discussions at the AUKMIN meeting about the collaboration around the AUKUS relationship that will see nuclear submarines built in South Australia.

One of the key topics of discussion that I will be having with Mr Cameron and Mr Shapps in my engagement will be around what this state government is doing to invest in the skills and the training that are required to build these most extraordinary machines. We will be talking about the state government's technical colleges. We have been delivering the technical colleges—go down to Findon and check it out. We will be talking about the reforms—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —this state government has made to amalgamate universities and attain, which the Deputy Premier has led, 1,200 additional university places specifically in regard to the AUKUS training effort. We will be talking about the investments we are making in three-year-old-preschool because this is such a long-term project. We are investing in the skills that will underpin the AUKUS arrangement and the AUKMIN relationship for many years to come.

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