{"id":57540,"date":"2021-02-28T20:29:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=270516"},"modified":"2021-02-28T20:29:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:29:06","slug":"jobslayer-gas-giants-grab-300m-subsidy-then-axe-3000-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/28\/jobslayer-gas-giants-grab-300m-subsidy-then-axe-3000-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"JobSlayer: gas giants grab $300m subsidy then axe 3000 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gas-industry-sacks-workers.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gas industry sacks workers\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gas-industry-sacks-workers.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gas-industry-sacks-workers-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>The Government touts gas as a key plank of JobMaker, its Covid-19 recession recovery plan. To help \"support jobs\" the government has given the gas industry $300 million of taxpayers' money in subsidies. In return, the industry has cut about 3000 workers, more than 10% of it workforce, in a boom production year.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/jobslayer-gas-giants-grab-300m-subsidy-then-axe-3000-workers\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government touts gas as a key plank of JobMaker, its Covid-19 recession recovery plan. To help &#8220;support jobs&#8221; the government has given the gas industry $300 million of taxpayers&#8217; money in subsidies. In return, the industry has cut about 3000 worker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1876],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57541,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57540\/revisions\/57541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}