GOVERNMENT’S ‘FIX’ DOES NOTHING, AS THE NUMBER OF STRANDED AUSTRALIANS GROWS   The number of Australians stranded overseas has jumped to 29,100 people, as the Morrison Government continues to stall on delivering Federal action to get these people home faster.  It’s almost a month since the Morrison Government announced its ‘fix’ for this issue but it’s clear changes to

E&OE TRANSCRIPTRADIO INTERVIEWABC WIDE BAY WITH DAVID DOWSETTFRIDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2020 SUBJECT: National Rail Manufacturing Plan. DAVID DOWSETT, HOST: Catherine King, good morning. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Good to be with you David. DOWSETT: Talk me through this plan, what sort of manufacturing is Labor wanting to bring home?

E&OE TRANSCRIPTRADIO INTERVIEW3BA WITH BRETT MACDONALDFRIDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2020 SUBJECTS: Budget; Budget Reply; JobKeeper; National Rail Manufacturing Plan; childcare; transmission lines; Morrison Government debt; Women left behind. BRETT MACDONALD, HOST: Good morning Catherine. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Good morning Brett, good to be with you. MACDONALD: Nice to have

LABOR’S AUSTRALIAN SKILLS GUARANTEE  An Albanese Labor Government will train thousands of workers by ensuring one in ten workers on major government projects are Australian Apprentices. The Federal Government spends billions on big infrastructure and defence projects every year. We should be better using that investment to help train the next generation of tradies. Labor

An Albanese Labor Government will ensure federal funding spent on rail projects boosts local jobs and industry by creating a National Rail Manufacturing Plan. By manufacturing trains here Labor’s plan would create up to 659 full-time jobs, create a rolling stock export industry and boost Australia’s GDP by up to $5 billion. An Albanese Labor Government would

E&OE TRANSCRIPTRADIO INTERVIEWRADIO NATIONAL DRIVEMONDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2020 SUBJECTS: Possible tax cuts; Government’s failures on infrastructure; Budget; Kathy Jackson. PATRICIA KARVELAS, HOST: Catherine, welcome. CATHERINE KING, SHADOW MINISTER FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Thanks for having me and thank you for your joyous dancing today. We missed it last week. KARVELAS: Yes, joyous dancing is what I like to

E&OE TRANSCRIPTDOORSTOPCANBERRAMONDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2020 SUBJECTS: Federal budget; Infrastructure; Jobs crisis; Tax cuts. JIM CHALMERS, SHADOW TREASURER: This is an incredibly important budget. It’s framed in the teeth of the deepest, most damaging recession we’ve seen in Australia for almost 100 years. We confront a full-blown jobs crisis in this country with almost a million Australians

The Morrison Government’s latest infrastructure announcement comes barely a week after figures were released showing that the Government spent $1.7 billion less on road and rail projects than they promised at last year’s Budget. On average, the Morrison Government underspends on their Budget promises by over $1.2 billion a year Australians need jobs now. It is

7 months into the biggest crisis ever to hit Australian aviation, the Morrison Government has deciding now is the time to release an issues paper on the struggling industry. Even before their paper was released however, the Government was distancing itself from parts of their plan, hurriedly backtracking after springing potential changes to Sydney Airport’s