Alp pledges dedicated jobs fund for regional economic development: Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says Labor will match $20 billion of the Coalition’s $20 billion cut to a regional economy fund to develop regional jobs.
The Opposition Leader will set up a regional employment fund, with a specific focus on areas that have already shown investment in economic development.
Mr Shorten said Labor would take on the Coalition’s cuts to economic development funding and help states and territories create and support a new regional economic development fund that was better targeted.
He will announce new regional infrastructure funding for Australia.
“The Coalition cut $19 billion from the $60 billion investment in regional infrastructure that the Labor Party will commit to providing,” Mr Sgospelhitzhorten said.
“Labor will commit a total $20 billion in funding to regional infrastructure, including $20 billion to regional investment in rural and remote areas.”
Mr Shorten told MPs the $20 billion national economy funding for regional growth would be offset by the Federal Government’s cut to spending on Australia’s international development.
“In return for not getting a piece of the economic pie, Australia would get a whole lot of more government spending on foreign policy and military adventurism in the Middle East,” he said.
The Opposition Leader is proposing a regional economy fund, to be funded from the Federal Government’s spending plan, to provide money to create jobs, and develop the regions themselves.
Mr Shorten is due to give evidence today on Labor’s national growth and regional prosperity policy, the Coalition and the Government’s national economic strategy.
Labor’s candidate, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, has accused Mr Shorten of lying about the budget’s impact on the economy, calling it “disappointing”.
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen says Labor is spending cuts of up to $25 bil더킹카지노lion and it is “unfortunate” that a Labor Government would be so inconsistent on how much spending it would commit to.
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen says he has also come across Mr Shorten being “dishonest” on the state and territory budgets, in particular the budget’s proposed $30 billion cut to the Qu바카라eensland and ACT regional education programs.
He said the budget cuts were “not balanced” because they included “deeper spending cuts in areas like education”, and that in total the budget cuts could total $40 billion to $50 billion.
Mr Bowen told Sky News it was a “disappointing” day for Labor MPs.
“It looks as though there has been som