<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today announced a multi-billion dollar investment in an Adelaide shipyard to train workers in building AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He said the $3.9 billion cash injection into the Osborne shipyard by the federal government was a "downpayment" for the facility, which will support the 10,000 skilled workers required to build the vessels.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Albanese confirmed today the total cost will be $30 billion, as forecast by the Australian Naval Infrastructure.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-extra-public-holiday-anzac-day-2026-2027-chris-minns/492368d9-c4f6-4740-9e2b-0b2ff4a9beb8" rel="" target="_blank" title="Aussie state to get an extra public holiday for the next two years after Anzac Day"><strong><span>Aussie state to get an extra public holiday for the next two years after Anzac Day</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Under the AUKUS agreement, the Australian navy will acquire eight nuclear-powered (but not nuclear armed) submarines over the next decade from the United States and Britain.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The federal government says 5500 jobs will be created at the shipyard, with thousands more indirect roles stemming from the shipyard's construction programs.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This is a driver of not just of national security and how were going to defend our nation into the future," Albanese said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/aukus-shipyard-gets-multibillion-government-investment/b4f145f1-e7f7-4732-bcc5-83d075e9ed37" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's also a driver of our economic prosperity, as well as making such an enormous difference to some of the apprentices that we've met here today."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Speaking alongside the prime minister, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said the Adelaide shipyard would be the only in the southern hemisphere capable of constructing nuclear-powered submarines.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/alexei-navalny-killed-by-poisoned-russian-dart/c48dde5f-253c-44b1-82e2-def50926f04c" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Russia accused of killing opposition leader Alexei Navalny with 'dart frog toxin'</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Importantly, this will modernise Aussie manufacturing as we go through it because it's not just the 10,000 jobs here," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We've got 70 companies already going through the qualification process to win work supplying not just Australian submarines but UK and US submarines."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>AUKUS was signed five years ago by the leaders of Australia, the US and UK in a move aimed at deterring China's assertiveness in the Pacific.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Doubt over the future of AUKUS emerged last January when US President Donald Trump was sworn in.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He ordered a review of the defence pact by the Pentagon, concerned it did not meet his "America first" agenda.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The agreement hung in the balance for months until the US Defence Department gave the green light in September. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Later, Trump warmly endorsed AUKUS when he hosted Albanese at the White House, saying it was "full steam ahead".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 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