{"id":7075,"date":"2020-06-26T09:46:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2020-06-26T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:46:26","slug":"energy-job-cuts-to-hit-newcastle-csiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/26\/energy-job-cuts-to-hit-newcastle-csiro\/","title":{"rendered":"ENERGY JOB CUTS TO HIT NEWCASTLE CSIRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close to forty energy jobs are set to go at the CSIRO \u2013 with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csirostaff.org.au\/news\/2020\/06\/23\/csiro-to-pull-the-plug-on-dozens-of-energy-jobs\/\">up to nine coming from Newcastle\u2019s energy research flagship, the CSIRO Energy Centre<\/a>.<br \/>\nFederal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon has slammed the cuts, saying she was \u2018deeply concerned\u2019 about the impacts on the capacity of the Energy Centre.<br \/>\n\u201cThe scientists at Newcastle\u2019s CSIRO Energy Centre are at the absolute forefront of driving innovation in the energy sector,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s unconscionable to be cutting staff in an area of research that is so critical to our region and our nation.\u201d<br \/>\nMs Claydon said that the decision to diminish national energy research capacity was \u2018unfathomable\u2019.<br \/>\n\u201cAs we grapple with the urgent need to assess and plan for our future energy needs as part of the move to a low-carbon economy, it is short-sighted beyond belief to be slashing our world-class energy research capacity,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\nMs Claydon said any energy research job losses would compound the impacts of the lack of a national energy policy.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Morrison Government\u2019s failure to deliver any sort of coherent national energy policy has repelled investment and stopped the creation of thousands of jobs in regions like ours,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cEven before these cuts, the CSIRO was set to lose more than 500 jobs by the end of this financial year. \u00a0I call on the Minister to step in and stand up for these important local and national jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to forty energy jobs are set to go at the CSIRO \u2013 with\u00a0up to nine coming from Newcastle\u2019s energy research flagship, the CSIRO Energy Centre. Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon has slammed the cuts, saying she was \u2018deeply concerned\u2019 about the impacts on the capacity of the Energy Centre. \u201cThe scientists at Newcastle\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/26\/energy-job-cuts-to-hit-newcastle-csiro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ENERGY JOB CUTS TO HIT NEWCASTLE CSIRO&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7075","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\/7075","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=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}