Software developers and business analysts will be among hundreds of new tech roles created at Qantas as part of an innovation centre that will be set up in the Adelaide CBD early next year. The airline's chief executive was in SA today to make the announcement but the details of a deal between the company and the state government will remain under wraps.
00:00The Qantas CEO jetting in to announce Adelaide as the site of the airline's new product innovation centre, the first facility of its kind in Australia outside of Sydney.
00:21We want this to be wildly successful and we want to see this grow here in Adelaide but also as a capability.
00:28SA was selected after a deal was struck between Qantas and the state government.
00:33The Premier tight-lipped on how much taxpayer money is on the table but says it won't be handed over until the airline delivers.
00:41It is only able to be realised by Qantas in the event they meet key benchmarks including the employment of a lot of people here in our state.
00:50As Qantas flies in there are concerns that a major South Australian project could be lost interstate.
00:56Melbourne's Peter McCallum Cancer Centre proposing to buy and operate a proton therapy unit raising more questions over troubled plans for an Adelaide facility.
01:07The Federal Health Minister says Australia only needs one.
01:11He'll work with SA to resurrect the proposal but won't rule out going elsewhere.
01:16This is not going to be a South Australian service or a Victorian service, this is going to be a national service.
01:22We still retain the aspiration and the hope that we can bring this opportunity to life and the work continues.
01:28Funding for the Proton Therapy Unit was first announced more than eight years ago.
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