Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits steel supplier and manufacturer BlueScope at their Port Kembla Steelworks. For more coverage, follow @illawarramercury or check out Illawarra Mercury online and in print.
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00:00Now, Al, you need, you need to plug in. There you go.
00:15Without steel, we don't have subs, we don't have resilience. It's one of the lessons of the
00:21pandemic, is that Australia has to make things here. And we want a future made in Australia,
00:28which is why we will always have your back, which is why we will always back Bluescope
00:34here in the Illawarra, who celebrate 100 years of creating jobs and economic activity
00:42in just three years time. And this is a company that can continue not just to exist, but can grow
00:51into the future. Because this is a company that's forward looking, that looks at how we lower
00:57emissions, increase productivity, all the things that we see here that you, the workers, deliver.
01:04I said upstairs that this facility is the heart and soul of the Illawarra. Well,
01:11Wedlam is the heart and soul of the Labor Party. And those two things combined are really important
01:18to me. I want you to thrive in the future. One of the things that we're doing, I've been
01:28speaking with your management here about a few issues and challenges, which are there.
01:35I make this point, I will always stand up for Australia's national interests.
01:39When it comes to engagement in trade, Bluescope creates jobs not just here,
01:44creates jobs around the world, including in the United States. And that is really, really
01:50important. Five billion dollars invested in the United States. And there's real opportunities for
01:55Bluescope to expand. The other thing that I'd say is that without Bluescope, our submarines,
02:08our roofs, everything that you do here touches Australians' lives on a day-to-day basis.