Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Smith again for her advocacy—in particular, in relation to her state of South Australia. Last week, when I was visiting South Australia with ANI at Osborne, we announced the sovereign submarine partnership, which will be the architecture that is used to guide and set how these submarines will be built. This agreement will provide the opportunity to select the partners but also to maximise the opportunities for Australian businesses to participate in these new arrangements. This is complementary to our plans for A Future Made in Australia and the Buy Australian Plan, which is about leveraging the purchasing power of the Commonwealth to increase opportunities for Australian workers and businesses. We're estimating that $6 billion will be invested in Australian industry and workforce—a transformational investment which will remake Australia and accelerate growth in the same way that large projects like the Snowy did all those years ago.