{"id":1340,"date":"2019-01-25T00:17:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T00:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2019-01-25T00:17:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T00:17:21","slug":"labor-will-invest-in-100-extra-jobs-for-cairns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/01\/25\/labor-will-invest-in-100-extra-jobs-for-cairns\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR WILL INVEST IN 100 EXTRA JOBS FOR CAIRNS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nA Shorten Labor Government will create 100 permanent full time Department of Human Services jobs in Cairns.
\nThese 100 new and secure jobs will inject up to $7.2 million into the local economy each and every year.
\nThis announcement will further cement Cairns as a national hub for Commonwealth Government service delivery and administration.
\nIt is a further example of Federal Labor\u2019s commitment to the decentralisation of Commonwealth Government service delivery.
\nThe 100 jobs will include local service delivery and call centre roles that will provide support for people across Australia.
\nRegional centres like Cairns have been ignored when it comes to decentralising Government service delivery.
\nThe Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government has turned its back on North Queensland, with a campaign of cuts to DHS and Centrelink that are leaving Cairns residents waiting longer to receive support.
\nMedicare and Centrelink services help the Cairns community when they need it the most \u2013 when people are sick, processing aged care pensions, child care support, disability support pensions and carers allowance payments.
\nThese jobs will improve access to Medicare and Centrelink and reduce waiting and processing time for older Australians – important services that have been left to deteriorate under the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government.
\nIncome support is complex and that\u2019s why it is important there are properly trained and permanent staff who are familiar with the personal circumstances facing income support recipients.
\nThere are 13,000 age pensioners in Cairns, who have endured lengthy phone wait times to Centrelink as well as lengthy wait times for their pensions to be approved. There are 1,700 young people on youth allowance, who are studying or undertaking an apprenticeship \u2013 all who will benefit from the increased support as a result of these jobs.
\nThe truth is Centrelink is in crisis under the Turnbull Government. It’s under staffed and under resourced.
\nThe Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government has cut and outsourced over 1,700 staff from DHS and Centrelink and cut thousands of public sector jobs in regional Australia.
\nThese cuts have coincided with increased Centrelink phone wait times, and income support recipients being pushed to the edge of poverty waiting months for their payments.
\nThese roles will be permanent and full time, and staff will be properly trained to assist Australians on income support.
\nLabor can afford this because we have made the tough decisions to make multinationals pay their fair share of tax, close tax loopholes used by the top end of town.
\nWe will also clamp down on blowouts in spending on contractors and consultants, and unnecessary and unreasonable travel.
\nLabor\u2019s focused on Cairns jobs and Cairns services \u2013 we\u2019re listening to the local community and making the investments needed to build a stronger local economy and create genuine job opportunities.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Shorten Labor Government will create 100 permanent full time Department of Human Services jobs in Cairns. These 100 new and secure jobs will inject up to $7.2 million into the local economy each and every year. This announcement will further cement Cairns as a national hub for Commonwealth Government service delivery and administration. It … Continue reading “LABOR WILL INVEST IN 100 EXTRA JOBS FOR CAIRNS”<\/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-1340","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\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}