Vic ALP, SA to partner on shipbuilding VICTORIAN Labor will partner with the South Australian government in a bid to pressure Canberra to keep shipbuilding jobs in Australia. VICTORIAN Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews was joined by South Australian Labor premier Jay Weatherill in Melbourne on Friday to announce an alliance they say will protect local jobs, should Labor win the Victorian election. Mr Andrews said Victoria and South Australia would not stand by and watch defence industry jobs go offshore. Victoria and South Australia will stand together. Our challenges are very similar," Mr Andrews said, in reference to the demise of the local automotive manufacturing industries in both states. Our objectives are exactly the same, to grow jobs, to grow opportunities. Mr Weatherill estimated $520 billion of shipbuilding work will be funded by Australia over the next 30 years and he said this work needed to stay in Australia. Mr Weatherill said there was a danger the federal government may send submarine building jobs offshore. "I want to build a coalition with Daniel Andrews and an incoming Labor government to work with us so we can maximise the amount of work to stay here," he told reporters.