{"id":17478,"date":"2022-07-25T19:47:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17478"},"modified":"2022-07-25T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:47:27","slug":"libs-time-for-labor-to-come-clean-about-secret-cuts-to-australian-manufacturing-jobs-and-skills-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/libs-time-for-labor-to-come-clean-about-secret-cuts-to-australian-manufacturing-jobs-and-skills-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Libs: Time for Labor to come clean about secret cuts to Australian manufacturing jobs and skills funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Industry Sussan Ley is calling on the Albanese Government to rule out tearing up commitments made to Australian manufacturing businesses by the previous government and to honour investments for skills, apprenticeships and trainees in full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Projects totalling around a billion dollars, funded through the previous government\u2019s $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative, are at risk of being torn up by Ed Husic alongside record investment in skills and training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Industries include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Defence, space and national security<\/li><li>Recycling and clean energy<\/li><li>Food security and processing<\/li><li>Medical Products<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A month into a review of the Modern Manufacturing Initiative, grant recipients are in the dark about whether their funding will be ripped away. Companies who were promised millions of dollars in crucial funding, have been waiting since the election for direction and have received no timeframe and no clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Sussan Ley said alarm bells were ringing across Australia\u2019s manufacturing and skills sectors as Labor\u2019s razor gang looks to gut their funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cReports that Mr Albanese is looking to balance the budget on the back of Australian jobs, workers and manufacturing businesses are deeply concerning, and confirm all suspicions that Labor can\u2019t manage money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are talking about boosting sovereign manufacturing capability on everything from defence, to vaccination, to food security and construction \u2013 every day Labor refuses to confirm funding certainty for these nationally significant projects is a day Australia falls behind the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis indecision is putting tens of thousands of jobs at risk, threatening investment certainty, threatening productivity and jeapordising the Australian Government\u2019s reputation as a stable partner to do business with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBusinesses are relying on the continuity of these commitments to hire apprentices and make investment decisions &#8211; make no mistake, if this uncertainty continues, job losses will follow and each one of them will be on Mr Albanese\u2019s head.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Industry Sussan Ley is calling on the Albanese Government to rule out tearing up commitments made to Australian manufacturing businesses by the previous government and to honour investments for skills, apprenticeships and trainees in full. Projects totalling around a billion dollars, funded through the previous government\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/07\/25\/libs-time-for-labor-to-come-clean-about-secret-cuts-to-australian-manufacturing-jobs-and-skills-funding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Libs: Time for Labor to come clean about secret cuts to Australian manufacturing jobs and skills funding&#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-17478","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\/17478","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=17478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17479,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17478\/revisions\/17479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}