{"id":2318,"date":"2019-04-15T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:07:52","slug":"labor-adopts-coalition-defence-industry-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/15\/labor-adopts-coalition-defence-industry-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Adopts Coalition Defence Industry Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Labor is trying to rebadge the Coalition\u2019s policy as their own \u2013 this time, the Government\u2019s Defence Policy for Industry Participation.<br \/>\nThe Coalition Government\u2019s Local Industry Capability Plan (LICP) is already delivering more jobs to regional Australia.<br \/>\nIn August 2017, following consultation with local businesses, the Coalition Government launched the LICP pilot for defence infrastructure and facilities projects. The LICP provided greater opportunities for local tradies and suppliers to secure work as part of our massive defence infrastructure investment.<br \/>\nThis program has been so successful that it has now been incorporated into the broader Defence Policy for Industry Participation, launched by the Minister for Defence Industry, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC, in Perth in March 2019.<br \/>\nFor the first time ever, it is this Government who has put in place policies that are making it easier for local tradies and suppliers to get involved in Defence projects \u2013 both capability acquisition and infrastructure and facilities projects.<br \/>\nIn Queensland and the Northern Territory alone we have seen companies tender for defence infrastructure work using over 80 per cent of their workforce from the nearby local region. Creating opportunities for local businesses and providing certainty for local jobs.<br \/>\nOver the last twelve months, as a result of the Coalition\u2019s $200 billion investment in Defence capability, upwards of 990 subcontractors have been engaged on defence infrastructure and facilities projects, of which 714 have been local contractors, representing an achievement rate of 72 per cent of work and $1.7 billion going directly to local communities across Australia. A further 4,280 subcontractor packages have been identified that will see upwards of an additional $5.2 billion worth of work going to the local market place under this initiative alone.<br \/>\nOnly the Morrison Government can be trusted to deliver defence capability and infrastructure. The Morrison Government is investing in Australia\u2019s defence industry, creating a smarter and more skilled workforce and a stronger economy, while building our defence capability. This is in stark contrast to Labor who slashed the Defence budget to the lowest level since 1938 when they were last in government.<br \/>\nThe Defence Policy for Industry Participation can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defence.gov.au\/SPI\/Industry\/Industry-Participation.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.defence.gov.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Labor is trying to rebadge the Coalition\u2019s policy as their own \u2013 this time, the Government\u2019s Defence Policy for Industry Participation. The Coalition Government\u2019s Local Industry Capability Plan (LICP) is already delivering more jobs to regional Australia. In August 2017, following consultation with local businesses, the Coalition Government launched the LICP pilot for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/15\/labor-adopts-coalition-defence-industry-policy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor Adopts Coalition Defence Industry Policy&#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-2318","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\/2318","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=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}