00:00The Prime Minister's pledge to pump $12 billion into the precinct, including dry docking facilities,
00:09sparking a lot of interest from local businesses.
00:13Andrew Neves, all ship engineering, already does 95% of its work in maintenance and manufacturing
00:20for the Navy. He's relishing the prospect of new opportunities.
00:24This announcement and this dry dock translates to a lot more maintenance work here in Western
00:29Australia and that enables us to invest now.
00:32Anthony Albanese making big promises in Perth.
00:35This will produce about 10,000 jobs, 4,000 direct on site.
00:40Andrew Neves hopes to tap into new frigate and landing craft work and grow his business from 50 to 70 skilled employees.
00:48I think willing apprenticeship participants is probably the key piece for us.
00:53We've never been able to bring in all the skilled workers that we need that understand the ships and the people.
00:59The best way for us is to train and retain our own people.
01:03The local council encouraging the next generation to jump on the tools.
01:07This will be an opportunity for them to seek jobs in those sectors.
01:13And confidence there won't be a problem finding workers to build the infrastructure.
01:17We've seen a little bit of activity tailing off with Metronet wrapping up and so that's freeing up capability.
01:25But with extra workers comes increased pressure on housing.
01:28It is a challenge for young people up here and definitely our young apprentices have found it hard.
01:34The construction industry is supported as much as possible to build those homes of the future.
01:40Betting on a future built on defence.
01:43Across the Henderson industrial area businesses like this one are gearing up for what they hope will be sustained demand for their services over the next two decades.
01:52Hmm?
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