Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Under this government's plan, the coalition government's commitment to shipbuilding in South Australia has once and for all ended Labor's valley of death. Our record investment is building 23 of the world's most advanced naval platforms at the new digital shipyards in Osborne. We have delivered the Hobart-class Destroyers and have laid the foundations for continuous shipbuilding in Australia for many, many generations to come. This astonishing achievement in just seven short years has created thousands of jobs, has created new business opportunities in South Australia and has helped reinvigorate Australia's industrial landscape. These are jobs that the great-grandchildren and the great-great-grandchildren of the workers in South Australia will be working in, in these industries in South Australia. The people of South Australia can have confidence that they are at the forefront of this government's plan to ensure that Australia has the maritime capability that we need. (Time expired)