How defence is stealing mining’s thunder as WA’s boom industry
Contractor Rigsafe has spent double its operating budget in the past year pivoting to shipbuilding and defence contracts will soon be a quarter of its business.
Lee Rowley can’t tell you about his work, but he can reveal that it requires a federal police check. He’s recently had some extra training on how to spot signs that other workers on site have unexplained extra wealth or have been seeking job information they don’t need to know.
His is not the average gig for a project development manager. But he is part of his employer’s calculated pivot away from Western Australia’s booming building and mining sectors towards its new explosive growth industry: defence.
