{"id":4014,"date":"2019-10-28T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:57:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T11:57:13","slug":"too-many-novocastrian-households-going-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/10\/28\/too-many-novocastrian-households-going-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"TOO MANY NOVOCASTRIAN HOUSEHOLDS GOING DARK"},"content":{"rendered":"

In some parts of Newcastle, as many as six per cent of households have their electricity disconnected in recent times, according to an\u00a0updated report from St Vincent de Paul<\/a>.
\nFederal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon discussed the \u201cHouseholds in the Dark\u201d report during a\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0on the so-called \u2018big stick\u2019 legislation, which would give Government powers to break up energy companies.
\n\u201cTragically, millions of Australians are struggling to keep the lights on. And of course, it\u2019s the most vulnerable people \u2013 the very people already under siege from this Government\u2019s savage agenda \u2013 that are getting hit the hardest,\u201d Ms Claydon told the Parliament.
\n\u201c[The report] showed that far from being an anomaly, disconnections are becoming commonplace.\u201d
\nMs Claydon said the number of disconnections in Newcastle were \u201cshocking\u201d.
\n\u201cIn postcode 2300, which takes in the inner city suburbs of\u00a0Newcastle<\/a>,\u00a0Cooks Hill<\/a>,\u00a0Bar Beach<\/a>,\u00a0Newcastle East<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Hill<\/a>,\u00a0a staggering 6.4% of households had electricity disconnections raised between July 2015 and June 2018.
\n\u201cIndeed, out of every single populated postcode in my electorate, the very lowest disconnection rate was 2.4% of households.\u201d
\nMs Claydon blamed the terrible figures on the Morrison Government\u2019s failure to deliver a national energy policy.
\n\u201cWhen it comes to energy policy, the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government has demonstrated time and again that it is pathologically incapable of delivering the leadership that the country so desperately needs.
\n\u201cWholesale power prices have climbed 158 per cent since 2015. Business is hurting and household budgets are getting smashed.
\n\u201cThis Government needs to stop its childish factional bickering, get over its aversion to science and deliver an energy policy that will drive investment, create jobs, bring down carbon emissions and cut electricity prices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In some parts of Newcastle, as many as six per cent of households have their electricity disconnected in recent times, according to an\u00a0updated report from St Vincent de Paul. Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon discussed the \u201cHouseholds in the Dark\u201d report during a\u00a0speech\u00a0on the so-called \u2018big stick\u2019 legislation, which would give Government powers to … Continue reading “TOO MANY NOVOCASTRIAN HOUSEHOLDS GOING DARK”<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","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=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}