Taxpayers will loan $245 million to Australia’s largest shipbuilder, Austal, with the money to be used to build a new manufacturing warehouse at the Henderson Defence precinct near Fremantle in Western Australia.
Industry Minister Tim Ayres and Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy announced the investment while visiting Henderson on Wednesday. It is the single biggest commitment yet made by Labor’s $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund .
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