Australian Manufacturing Workers Union delegate Matthew Primiero has put whining Pyne on the spot the other day on the ABC's Question and Answer program. He asked why, with a huge amount of South Australians wanting to make the ships there in that state, the Abbott/Turnbull gov has engaged a process that could very well see our subs built by Japan or Germany?
The AMWU was hardly satisfied with the answer.There's not even anything definite about providing an answer before the election FFS..@cpyne: Why doesn’t your Govt rule out an overseas or hybrid sub build as part of their evaluation process? #QandA https://t.co/UHeAzwDoVi— ABC Q&A (@QandA) April 4, 2016
Mr Primiero, who works at ASC North in Adelaide, was applauded when he asked Mr Pyne why the Turnbull Government would not take the option of an overseas or hybrid build of the submarines off the table for the three competitors.
Mr Pyne replied the “process must go through it’s process” or else the Government may be “open to all sorts of legal ramifications.”
Mr Primiero told AMWU News the minister had “danced round the question” because the Japanese, French DCNS and German TKNS tenders had all committed to building in Australia if the Government wished.
“I want to see ink to paper first,” the AMWU delegate said on Q&A.
Mr Pyne said he believed the announcement would happen before the election “because I don't think you can expect anyone in Australia to go to vote without knowing what that big investment is going to do and where it's going to be.”
A ReachTEL poll of 1200 voters in Mr Pyne’s seat of Sturt and the neighbouring Liberal seat of Hindmarsh showed about 90 per cent of voters want the subs built in Adelaide.
The poll, commissioned by the AMWU, showed Mr Pyne had lost six per cent of voter support in Sturt since the 2013 election and is vulnerable to losing the seat, as is Hindmarsh MP Matt Williams. AMWU
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