With the ink barely dry on the AUKUS plan, SA Premier Peter Malinauskas was on a plane to Britain, seeking ideas on building a workforce of 5000 from scratch.
| Lanky South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas bounds into a workshop full of young English apprentices in blue jumpsuits and heavy brown boots.
He wants to know if they’re all locals, what sort of qualifications they have or are acquiring, what it means to them to work in the shipyard. You also have to squeeze yourself into tight and awkward spaces, rather than doing almost all the welding at the bench. There is special “confinement training”, which seems to be as unpleasant as it sounds.
“Our ambition is to develop a workforce domestically from Australia. But it would be foolhardy to not contemplate the way we can share knowledge and share experiences,” he says.Chalk replies that because the first AUKUS sub will be built in Britain, Barrow needs the workforce first.
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