Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Again, as I said before to the question earlier, there are some direct benefits for the community. It will be a facility that will require 45 jobs. About 20 to 25 of those jobs will not require any skills. There'll be on-the-job training. So that will be open to most people in any town or community. We are also putting on the table $8 million to help upskill people in the community to train ahead of any construction or operation of the facility to fill the more skilled jobs. So it will bring skilled jobs to a local rural town.

One thing I'm very excited about is that, if we are to proceed with a facility in one of these communities, it will link a small country town in South Australia with our world-class nuclear medicine supply chain. We have already hosted students and community members at Lucas Heights from both of these communities. If we maintain that relationship over a long period of time, that will help young people in these towns be exposed to a world-class industry and maybe pique their interest in going on to contribute to what is an amazing industry that we are lucky to have in this country.