Source: Prime Minister of Australia
EDDIE HUGHES, STATE MEMBER FOR GILES: It’s great to have the Prime Minister here in Whyalla today at the Steelworks. Just over a year ago, there was a massive intervention here in Whyalla to rescue the Steelworks, to provide a future for Whyalla and to provide a future for sovereign steel manufacturing in our nation. As a measure of what has happened and the confidence in the future, there are now 76 apprentices working throughout the facility here in Whyalla. So, that is great news. Over a year ago, unprecedented intervention has made a massive difference. So, an incredibly warm welcome for the Prime Minister and what he achieved, along with the Premier Peter Malinauskas, and a whole heap of other people doing the right thing by this community. So, congratulations there, Prime Minister. Over to you.
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The Steelworks is safer and stronger because of the intervention and it’s taken two Labor Government to do that, the Federal Labor Government working with the Malinauskas Labor Government in South Australia, making sure that we are delivering for working people, delivering by saving the Steelworks, but also delivering through the other measures that we’ve taken: making sure that people get a fair crack, the tax cuts that we’ve delivered for every worker who is here, the Free TAFE which is benefiting and encouraging people to undertake those apprenticeships, the $10,000 incentives for electrical and construction which is making a difference as well. All of these measures are contributing to this local economy here in regional South Australia, but importantly as well, contributing to our national security. That is why locally made steel is absolutely essential. And we were determined to not just sit back and watch things happen through markets that simply don’t work. We were determined to intervene and to make sure that governments looked after people. And that’s why tomorrow I certainly hope that Peter Malinauskas gets the result that he deserves, because he deserves to be re-elected as Premier of South Australia with people like Eddie as an important part of his team as we go forward. I’ll hand over to Tim Ayres and then we’ll take some questions.
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