{"id":7520,"date":"2020-07-31T11:04:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7520"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:04:52","slug":"australian-manufacturing-in-need-of-comprehensive-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/31\/australian-manufacturing-in-need-of-comprehensive-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING IN NEED OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian manufacturing sector is in critical need of a comprehensive future plan from the Morrison Government to drive employment and boost GDP as Australia navigates the deep recession we are in.<br \/>\nFederal Labor welcomes the release today of the AMWU report\u00a0<em>A Fair Share for Australian Manufacturing<\/em>, which outlines a detailed plan for the future of the industry, which is so critical for encouraging well paid, highly skilled secure jobs.<br \/>\nThe AMWU report highlights the critical need for reform of high energy costs, and skills and training. It explores a plan to deliver, \u201c400,000 new manufacturing jobs, a further 265,000 in supply chains \u2013 all of them working together to put that famous Australian Made label on an extra $180 billion worth of products every year.\u201d<br \/>\nThe report stands in stark contrast to the failure of the Morrison Government to outline a plan for manufacturing in last week\u2019s Budget update.<br \/>\nCOVID-19 has demonstrated just how vulnerable Australia is to global supply chain shocks. The Liberals\u2019 lack of a economic plan is leaving Australia, and the manufacturing sector, dangerously exposed to turbulence in the global economy.<br \/>\nWhile some of our manufacturers have adapted to produce much needed Personal Protective Equipment and other essential suppliers during COVID-19, Australia needs a more sophisticated manufacturing plan than just responding to crises.<br \/>\nThe only plan the Morrison Government currently has is to rip $1.8 billion from research and development. Research and Development is inextricably linked to a recovery led by advanced manufacturing, and the manufacturing sector is the second largest spender on R&amp;D.<br \/>\nAs we look to the future and how we best emerge from the health crisis and recession, the Morrison Government must do more to support the Australian manufacturing sector. A strong local manufacturing industry will create jobs and long term export and trading opportunities<br \/>\nThey need to come up with a genuine plan to get the economy moving again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian manufacturing sector is in critical need of a comprehensive future plan from the Morrison Government to drive employment and boost GDP as Australia navigates the deep recession we are in. Federal Labor welcomes the release today of the AMWU report\u00a0A Fair Share for Australian Manufacturing, which outlines a detailed plan for the future &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/31\/australian-manufacturing-in-need-of-comprehensive-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING IN NEED OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN&#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-7520","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\/7520","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=7520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}