PM opens campaign at mobile can printer

Prime Minister Scott Morrison opened his 2022 election campaign with a visit to East Coast Canning, a start-up mobile can printing, labelling and packaging business on the NSW south coast.

Morrison was at East Coast Canning, spruiking the government’s message and supporting would-be MP Andrew Constance, who is aiming to overturn the marginal seat of Gilmore from Labor.

East Coast Canning owner Chris Kelly, who started the business five years ago with the help of a government grant, presented the prime minster with a custom-printed can, labelled as Scomo’s Strong Economy.

Morrison accepted the can with glee, before laying into the opposition leader’s inability to say what the current unemployment rate is, and citing East Coast Canning as an example of his government supporting business to create employment.

From its early beginnings East Coast Canning now has 35 staff, operating five Codi canning machines around Australia. Since the launch it has seamed 35 million cans, and labelled 10 million.