Ready to make life easier for you
WHEN the cost of the necessities of life, like food and clothing, grows faster than pay-packets of Far North Queenslanders, there is something wrong with our nation.
Australians work hard. We look after each other, a feature of our national character that has come to the fore during the Covid pandemic.
Yet our federal Liberal-National government boasts it is deliberately keeping a lid on growth in wages. It is led by a Prime Minister who believes our lowest-paid workers don’t deserve a pay rise that would allow them to keep up with inflation.
On Saturday, FNQ will have the chance to vote for something better. We’ll tackle Scott Morrison’s cost-of-living crisis by cutting childcare and electricity costs and boosting economic productivity, allowing employers to maintain profits while also giving their employees pay rises.
We can revitalise Australian manufacturing, creating thousands of new jobs and giving birth to new export industries that will make
Australia a renewable energy superpower.
To ensure FNQ has the skills needed to fill these new jobs, we will create 465,000 fee-free TAFE places and 20,000 new university places in areas like advanced manufacturing, the care industries like nursing and aged care, as well as the traditional trades.
FNQ has had a tough couple of years. Labor wants to build new industries in Cairns and fix the regional healthcare crisis.
We will invest in the Cairns
Marine Precinct, creating secure manufacturing jobs in Cairns for generations to come. We will build the new CQUniversity campus in the heart of Cairns, stage one of the Cairns Water Security Project and invest in desperately needed upgrades and maintenance in the Torres Strait.
We will commit to real action on climate change, as well as boosting investment in the Great Barrier Reef to $1.2bn, protecting the Reef and the tens of thousands of jobs it supports.