More than 1,000 Australians are ready to join the naval workforce as shipbuilders after the Naval Shipbuilding College (NSC) reached a major milestone in preparing them for their careers. Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price said the achievement demonstrated how the Morrison government has been working to deliver a generation of jobs in the sector. The college was established by the federal government in 2018 out of the 2017 Navy Shipbuilding Plan partnering with education and training providers to grow Australia’s shipbuilding workforce. The college operates a hub-and-spoke model that enables students to undertake courses through NSC-approved registered training organisations or higher education providers across Australia, its website states. It feeds into the Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise that was expanded under the government’s 2020 Force Structure Plan. The plan outlines Australia’s response to the increasingly complex security and strategic landscape unfolding in the Indo-Pacific, which some analysts say leads back to the Chinese regime …