{"id":11894,"date":"2021-06-23T22:37:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11894"},"modified":"2021-06-23T22:37:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T22:37:47","slug":"labor-cuts-192-5-million-from-arena-abandons-new-clean-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/06\/23\/labor-cuts-192-5-million-from-arena-abandons-new-clean-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor cuts $192.5 million from ARENA, abandons new clean jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Party last night lined up with the Greens to gut new funding to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).<br \/>\nLabor Senators teamed up with the Australian Greens to cut $192.5 million of new funding for ARENA and disallow a regulation that expands the clean technology agency\u2019s mandate to play a major role in driving the next generation of low-emissions technologies.<br \/>\nThe funding included support for electric vehicle charging infrastructure and microgrid infrastructure to make energy affordable and reliable in regional and remote Australia.<br \/>\nARENA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arena.gov.au\/news\/arena-welcomes-new-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welcomed<\/a>\u00a0the changes and calling it a \u201cnew era for ARENA\u201d to be able to work with the next generation of energy technologies.<br \/>\nThe Government\u2019s approach has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minister.industry.gov.au\/ministers\/taylor\/media-releases\/governments-vision-new-energy-technologies-endorsed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received wide industry<\/a>\u00a0support from over 28 businesses, peak bodies, and climate change groups including the Business Council of Australia, the AiGroup, the National Farmers Federation, ClimateWorks Australia and the Investor Group for Climate Change.<br \/>\nThe loss of this funding will cost up to 1,400 new jobs in emerging industries and would have supported industries like mining, agriculture, transport, manufacturing and electricity, which employ over 2.2 million Australians.<br \/>\nLabor has walked away from clean tech jobs, and blue-collar jobs.<br \/>\nLabor MP Joel Fitzgibbon \u2013 slammed the move as \u201cnothing short of genius\u201d for Chris Bowen to force Labor MPs to \u201cheroically vote against carbon reduction initiatives that Labor actually supports.\u201d<br \/>\nThe decision showed that Anthony Albanese cannot be trusted to support the long-term future of Australia\u2019s resources and agriculture industries.<br \/>\nDespite the Australian Labor Party platform explicitly supporting these technologies, every Senator in the Australian Labor Party room has now voted against them.<br \/>\nIt has not only shown that Labor is economically reckless, but that their promises cannot be trusted.<br \/>\nThere are only two ways to reduce emissions: through technology, or taxes. By abandoning investing in technology today, the Labor Party has shown the 2.2. million Australians working in energy intensive industries that their solution to climate change is more taxes.<br \/>\nLabor has shown they will always choose taxes, which means Australian families, farmers, workers and our regions will pay more.<br \/>\nThey have sent a clear message to Australian voters that the Labor Party would prefer to play politics than support Australian jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Party last night lined up with the Greens to gut new funding to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). Labor Senators teamed up with the Australian Greens to cut $192.5 million of new funding for ARENA and disallow a regulation that expands the clean technology agency\u2019s mandate to play a major role in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/06\/23\/labor-cuts-192-5-million-from-arena-abandons-new-clean-jobs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor cuts $192.5 million from ARENA, abandons new clean jobs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}