Australian coal mine and power station workers’ prospects look bleak – unless we start offering more targeted support

From theconversation.com

Workers who were made redundant in coal-fired power plants between 2010 and 2020 saw their incomes plummet by 69% in the year after they lost their jobs. This was the staggering finding of research by Dan Andrews, Elyse Dwyer and Lachlan Vass at the e61 Institute reported by The Conversation in 2023. Andrews, Dwyer and Vass called for a national discussion about support for workers made redundant by Australia’s energy transition. On Wednesday, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton offered his own form of support, saying the Coalition’s plan to put nuclear power plants on the sites of former coal-fired stations would ... (full story)