Returning to shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, who says the government’s plans to support clean energy, battery and critical mineral sectors won’t help the cost-of-living crisis.It comes as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese plans to put a new law to federal parliament to deliver the assistance in a package that promises a by offering big investors greater incentives for local manufacturing.“This in no way is a solution of the cost-of-living crisis.
Indeed, it will exacerbate it and if we want strong manufacturing in this country, and we do, we need to get back to the fundamentals of affordable, reliable energy, flexible industrial relations, delivers higher real wages and competitive workplaces at the same time as approvals and deregulation that encourages businesses to take risks to employ, to drive competitiveness and productivity,” Taylor said on ABC Radio National this morning.