GEORGE CHRISTENSEN

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Labor’s anti-jobs stance

LABOR, the so-called workers’ party, seems hell-bent on sabotaging a massive project designed to create jobs at a time when they are desperately needed.A blatant attack on coal in general and Carmichael mine proponent Adani in particular has been published on the Townsville Labor blog.This is the official Townsville Labor Party blog , and it reads ‘The facts about this mine suggest... There's nothing in it for Queensland’.To suggest that billions of dollars of investment and thousands of jobs are ‘nothing’ is ludicrous.Labor has professed to support this project and mining in general, but this outburst on the official Townsville Labor Party website, flies in the face of comments by the State Mines minister.Does Labor want jobs for the workers across North Queensland or not?The Labor blog looked more like a post from the Australian Greens.I had to look twice to see if this was Labor or the Greens talking here because this post is trumpeting the end of fossil fuels and the brilliance of a battery.Watch out workers – it seems Labor wants to trash the industry which is responsible for one in four dollars of the Queensland economy along with one in every five jobs.What the people of the north need right now is investment and job-creating projects.What we don’t need is rants like these on an official Labor Party website denigrating the very companies who are seeking to deliver those jobs.