{"id":8569,"date":"2020-10-07T22:22:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2020-10-07T22:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:22:10","slug":"budget-support-for-newcastle-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/07\/budget-support-for-newcastle-falls-short\/","title":{"rendered":"BUDGET SUPPORT FOR NEWCASTLE FALLS SHORT"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nFederal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon has slammed the Federal Budget, saying it fails to deliver the investment that Newcastle needs now to weather the economic storms ahead.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s deeply disappointing not to see any support for new projects like the University of Newcastle\u2019s STEMM building or the Port of Newcastle\u2019s Deepwater Terminal.
\n\u201cInstead of funding these priority projects, Mr Morrison chose to bail out his Liberal State Government friends from having to fulfil their promise to fully fund the Newcastle Inner City Bypass.
\n\u201cWhile I welcome funding for the final stage of the Inner City Bypass, I want to see a guarantee that the funds the State Government promised Novocastrians still end up in Newcastle.\u201d
\nMs Claydon also welcomed the cash payments for income support recipients, but said they wouldn\u2019t compensate for the Government\u2019s cuts to JobKeeper and JobSeeker.
\n\u201cThe Morrison Government\u2019s decision to slash JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments is ripping close to $25 million out of Newcastle each and every fortnight. A single one-off payment to income support recipients won\u2019t come close to filling this massive hole,\u201d Ms Claydon said.
\n\u201cWhile the tax cuts will see the average worker benefit from an extra $50 a fortnight, millions on JobKeeper have seen their income slashed by $300 a fortnight.\u201d
\nMs Claydon said she was also disappointed with the lack of support for highly-impacted industries.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s precious little targeted support in this Budget for the hardest hit industries and those that the Morrison Government deliberately excluded from JobKeeper.
\n\u201cThe arts, local government, universities, aviation, tourism and casual workers have all been left to fend for themselves through the deepest recession we’ve seen in almost a century and this budget offers little relief.\u201d
\nMs Claydon said it was disappointing to see the Government turn its back on tried and tested stimulus methods, despite blowing debt out to one trillion dollars.
\n\u201cThere wasn\u2019t an extra dollar in the Budget for childcare, for renewable energy, or for social housing \u2013 despite the fact that we know that these areas deliver the greatest bang for buck when it comes to economic stimulus and sustained community benefit,\u201d Ms Claydon said.
\n\u201cWorse, the Budget locks in the Morrison Government\u2019s plans to rip $1 billion from universities at a time when they\u2019re already on their knees. Universities should be central to driving our economic recovery, but this Government seems intent on delivering the fatal blow.
\n\u201cThe Government\u2019s belated commitment to new apprenticeships rings especially hollow when you consider their failure to deliver on their earlier promise for an extra 300,000 apprentices and traineeship places. Why should we believe them now?\u201d\n<\/div>\n
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Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon has slammed the Federal Budget, saying it fails to deliver the investment that Newcastle needs now to weather the economic storms ahead. \u201cIt\u2019s deeply disappointing not to see any support for new projects like the University of Newcastle\u2019s STEMM building or the Port of Newcastle\u2019s Deepwater Terminal. \u201cInstead of … Continue reading “BUDGET SUPPORT FOR NEWCASTLE FALLS SHORT”<\/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-8569","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\/8569","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=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}