00:00For Port Adelaide bakery owner Phillip Donnelly,
00:05AUKUS brought hope for more customers from the nearby shipyards.
00:09Now he's unsure that'll be the case.
00:12It's pretty concerning whenever something puts a big question mark
00:15on any sort of investment into an area, especially that I've invested in.
00:19While some locals have doubts about the US government's review
00:23of the AUKUS security pact, others say it didn't come as a shock.
00:27I was surprised it took them this long.
00:29We kind of expected it.
00:30We saw that that happened in the UK when Keir Starmer got in.
00:34AUKUS is expected to create thousands of jobs at Osborne,
00:37boosting the local population and economy.
00:40Despite the review, politicians remain confident
00:43nuclear-powered submarines will be built in Adelaide.
00:47We're sort of focused on the main game,
00:48which is that Australia needs a sovereign submarine-building capability
00:53and that's going to be here in South Australia.
00:56Over the last decade it was, do we buy them off the shelf from Japan?
00:59Do we invest in French technology?
01:02We're confident now we've got the right answer to the question.
01:05SA is likely to start building SSN AUKUS submarines from the 2030s.
01:11Already the Federal and South Australian governments have invested hundreds of millions of dollars
01:16on a new training academy here at Osborne, as well as university places to build a submarine workforce.
01:22Local defence companies have also started to enter the US supply chain for the construction of Virginia-class submarines.
01:29We are seeing a bigger appetite for companies to not move their businesses away from South Australia
01:37but to set up a US base.
01:39Setting up stronger ties between South Australia and the US,
01:42despite Donald Trump's America First agenda.
01:59We will do much higher education in the US tax year.
02:02You can't pay attention to the US tax year,
02:03but the US tax year can be on the US tax year on the US tax year...
02:05...uncredit
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