{"id":5135,"date":"2020-02-17T18:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2020-02-17T18:21:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:21:50","slug":"holden-cuts-demand-manufacturing-renaissance-green-new-deal-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/holden-cuts-demand-manufacturing-renaissance-green-new-deal-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Holden Cuts Demand Manufacturing Renaissance, Green New Deal: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Industry Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has reacted to news that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/feb\/17\/holden-brand-to-be-axed-after-general-motors-announces-it-will-exit-australian-market\">General Motors will axe the Holden brand and 600 workers with it<\/a>.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThis should be a wakeup call to the Morrison Government. We need to urgently deliver a coherent, forward-looking clean and green industry policy, where value-adding in manufacturing takes centre stage. Hundreds of workers are set to lose their jobs within weeks.<br \/>\n\u201cWorkers deserve decent jobs and a just transition from old industries to the work of the future. Without well-planned support and investment from Government workers will continue to be left high and dry by corporations.<br \/>\n\u201cWe must foster a manufacturing renaissance in Australia with big investment from the government in green and renewable industries of the future.<br \/>\n\u201cNow is the time to ensure Australia is on the path to be a renewables powerhouse, that we have a just transition from polluting fossil fuels to long term, sustainable and life-making work. A resurgence of Australian industry and manufacturing is fundamental to this new future.<br \/>\n\u201cAs we face the twin crises of climate emergency and economic inequality, a Green New Deal can transform our society and build a more just future for all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Industry Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has reacted to news that\u00a0General Motors will axe the Holden brand and 600 workers with it. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThis should be a wakeup call to the Morrison Government. We need to urgently deliver a coherent, forward-looking clean and green industry policy, where value-adding in manufacturing takes centre &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/holden-cuts-demand-manufacturing-renaissance-green-new-deal-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holden Cuts Demand Manufacturing Renaissance, Green New Deal: Greens&#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-5135","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\/5135","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=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}