Labor: Use your budget reply to stand up for our future
Anthony Albanese
Half measures aren't enough
Josh Frydenberg has announced a budget that gives big business the power to decide how we rebuild from this crisis instead of us. Instead of directly creating jobs, this government is subsidising big business to entrench insecure work for our generation. JobMaker is simply a subsidy for businesses dressed up as support for young people.
While Scott Morrison is using this crisis to line the pockets of big business, we need Labor to stand up and fight for our future. Anthony Albanese has the opportunity to show some political leadership and fight for a transformative plan to rebuild from this crisis.
On Thursday evening Anthony Albanese is due to deliver his response to this budget. This is his chance to get off the fence [1], reject the influence of big business and stand with our generation and fight for real solutions to this crisis like a Climate Jobs Guarantee.
A Climate Jobs Guarantee is a truly transformative plan to rebuild our economy. A plan that puts everyday people ahead of big business, creates thousands of good public, unionised jobs, and that acts at the scale and speed necessary to solve the climate crisis.
Anthony Albanese seems to think he can sit on the fence while our future is under threat. But our movement is growing, and we will show him that silence has a price.
[1] Labor has talked a big game about renewable energy, but their 2050 target is too little, too late. Albanese has called on Labor to stay silent on new fossil fuel projects which will have a devastating impact on land, water and the climate. While Albanese has finally committed to supporting an increase in Jobseeker, he has failed to commit to an amount. We need Anthony Albanese to take a stand for our future, and commit to a massive, coordinated effort to solve the climate crisis and transform our country by investing in public services and job creation with something like a Climate Jobs Guarantee.
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The current government is driving us towards disaster, lining the pockets of billionaire CEO’s with massive handouts and bankrolling new dirty gas projects, while average people have their jobs cut and are forced to dig into their super to get by. Young people will be scarred by years of economic depression and the accelerating impacts of climate change if nothing is done.
While Scott Morrison is using this crisis to give big business even more power to lower wages and trash our climate, we need Labor to stand up and fight for our future. But instead of fighting for a transformative plan to rebuild from this crisis, you have been sitting on the fence.
The time for half-measure is over. We can’t wait for real solutions any longer.
When you make your budget reply on Thursday, we are asking you to get off the fence and fight for our future. We need you to take a stand for our generation by rejecting this big business plan and fighting for transformational solutions that actually address the economic and climate crises.
A plan like a Climate Jobs Guarantee is a truly transformative plan to rebuild our economy. A plan that puts everyday people ahead of big business, creates thousands of good public, unionised jobs, and that acts at the scale and speed necessary to solve the climate crisis.
We could enter a new era of dignity and justice. We could guarantee good jobs to everyone who wants one, no matter where they were born or what their visa status. We could revitalise our public services and provide universal health-care, free education, adequate public housing and a vibrant arts and cultural life for our communities. We could transform our energy system to run on 100% renewable energy and so much more to protect our communities from climate harm.
Ushering in the era of the Climate Jobs Guarantee needs to start right now. Will you use your budget reply to stand with us and fight for a recovery that puts people first or will you continue to sit on the fence while our futures are under threat?