Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne says the government is working on a defence industry skill and STEM strategy, for release in mid 2018. In an Adelaide speech celebrating Magna Carta (no its not a submarine) Mr Pyne worked in a flotilla of facts on government initiatives in trades and STEM education to keep the naval building programme afloat. First off the slips will be the long anticipated naval shipbuilding college, scheduled to start in January. It will, “focus on increasing the number of people with key entry-level trade qualifications” and because the college will be industry-driven it “will be looking to collaborate on workforce skills curricula.”