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How 76,000 new jobs for Australians can help rebuild our economy now and tackle climate change.
Australia is facing twin crises. After last summer’s climate change-fuelled bushfires, many communities are still doing it tough. And hundreds of thousands of Australians are out of work due to COVID-19.
We need to be creating jobs now, and solving long-term problems.
Economic recovery is top of mind for Australians. Governments have a crucial role to play in making targeted investments, and implementing policies that can put Australians back to work. In doing so governments can choose to invest in initiatives that set us up for the future, creating win/win solutions that create jobs and tackle long-term problems at the same time.
This Clean Jobs Plan provides a whole-of-economy solution. It identifies 12 major policy opportunities to immediately kick-start economic growth. Collectively, these opportunities represent 76,000 jobs. Job creation would start immediately and over a three-year period.
Crucially, these opportunities are shovel ready, deliberately targeted to regions and occupations hit hardest by job losses, and have the potential to grow the entire economy in the long term.
These are jobs for the many Australians who need to get back to work now.
- 70% of the jobs are in construction and administrative services, sectors that have seen 80,000 jobs lost already to COVID-19
- 40% of the jobs are in regional areas; and
- A third of the jobs require minimal training
The analysis does not identify every job that can be created. Instead, it focuses on targeting regions and occupations hit hardest by job losses and on programs that can create jobs quickly.
Twelve policy opportunities to deliver 76,000 jobs that re-engineer our energy system, renew industries and restore our environment
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1. The Clean Jobs Plan shows how 12 policy opportunities can put 76,000 Australians to work, reboot the economy, and tackle longterm challenges including climate change.
- The 12 major opportunities, identified through granular economic modelling, include:
- 15,000 jobs installing utility-scale renewable energy, including solar and wind farms, transmission infrastructure and adding utility-scale batteries.
- 12,000 jobs in targeted ecosystem restoration, including more than 5,000 in Queensland.
- 12,000 jobs in public and active transport construction, including 7,000 – 8,000 jobs for New South Wales workers.
- 37,000 jobs in other projects across Australia including in organic waste, energy efficiency in buildings, urban green spaces, community-scale storage and more.
2. Implementing the Clean Jobs Plan will help people and industries that have been hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis, especially in regional Australia.
- Approximately 1 in 3 job openings would require minimal training, meaning that displaced workers, from hospitality workers in Victoria to tourism operators in Cairns, could be rapidly employed.
- Seventy per cent of job opportunities are in construction and administrative, support and logistics services – sectors where 80,000 workers have already lost their jobs.
- Forty-two per cent of the job opportunities identified are for regional Australians.
- The 12 policy opportunities can be actioned by state and territory governments right away. Job creation can start immediately, and continue over the three-year analysis period.
3. The Clean Jobs Plan identifies thousands of job opportunities in every state and hundreds in each territory.
- The Clean Jobs Plan provides a top 5 priority list for economic stimulus in every state and territory, in alignment with each jurisdiction’s current priorities
- For example, utility scale renewable energy in Victoria can create 3,000 – 4,000 high and low skilled jobs and help the state meet its Renewable Energy Target of 50% by 2030.
- States and territories can create jobs where they are needed most. For example, two of the 12 major policy opportunities, ecosystem restoration and utility-scale renewable energy, can significantly benefit regional areas with high levels of unemployment.
4. Economic stimulus can set Australia up for the future by creating jobs, kick-starting the economy and tackling climate change simultaneously.
- The Clean Jobs Plan can unlock significant private investment for the Australian economy and further industry development. For example, investment in pilot-scale green hydrogen facilities would unlock $4 of private investment for every dollar of public investment.
- The Clean Jobs Plan will indirectly benefit other downstream industries such as manufacturing, trade and hospitality in delivering these projects.
- Investment in large and small-scale renewable energy assets, transmission infrastructure, and energy storage facilities can reduce energy costs for households and businesses and provide clean, reliable power for the future.
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