Found at last! 14 "Green" Jobs

Great news - "Green" Jobs exist after all. Of course, it won't come as any great surprise to most people to learn that they are taxpayer-funded jobs, but they do exist. The thing that makes them so difficult to find is that they are hidden in plain view: they are on the Department of Climate Change's website.

The Rudd Government has created 14 brand spanking new "Green Jobs". And here they are:

• Position number: VRN 50/09 - Assistant Director EL1 - $83,600 to $106,506
• Position number: VRN 51/09 - Senior Policy Officer APS6 - $67,925 to $77,330
• Position number: VRN 52/09 - Director EL2 - $99,798 to $131,670
• Position number: VRN 53/09 - Governance Officer EL1 - $83,600 to $106,506
• Position number: VRN 54/09 - Finance Officer APS6 - $67,925 to $77,330
• Position number: VRN 55/09 - Assistant Director EL1 - $83,600 to $106,506
• Position number: VRN 56/09 - Director EL2 - $99,798 to $131,670
• Position number: VRN 57/09 - Assistant Director Internal Budgets EL1 - $83,600 to $106,506
• Position number: VRN 58/09 - Senior Policy Officer APS 6 - $67,925 to $77,330
• Position number: VRN 59/09 - Assistant Director EL1 - $83,600 to $106,506
• Position number: VRN 43/09 - Assistant Secretary SES Band 1 - $168,000 to $197,000
• Position number: VRN 44/09 - Assistant Secretary SES Band 1 - $168,000 to $197,000
• Position Number: VRN 38/09 - Business Analyst APS6 - $67,925 to $77,330
• Position Number: VRN 39/09 - Project Officer APS5 (2 positions) - $62,178 to $65,835

Since these qualify as "Green Jobs", they have been added to the scorecard to the right of this webpage.

But there is more good news as well. In addition to these 14 Green Jobs, the Department of Climate Change is also looking for up to 20 graduates from all academic disciplines. These are for a period of nine months with a starting salary of $53,469 and a finishing salary of $62,178. Since these are only temporary work-experience "jobs", they have not been added to the scorecard.

These 14 new jobs are in addition to the 33 people that already infest the Department of Climate Change. The empire building is proceeding apace.

Good work if you can get it.

It must be kept in mind that this burgeoning department will never contribute a single dollar to Australia's GDP. As we have seen from the bizzare series of statements and corrections being uttered by our Great Leader, Kevin "Call me Secretary General" Rudd, over the last few days, they will never contribute a single new "real" full time job to the economy either. They are all being put in place for one single purpose: to tax hard-working people out of honest, gainful employment - all in the noble purpose of 'saving the planet', of course.

In short - they are parasites. And they are parasites of the worst order. Their success criteria will be how much suffering they wind up inflicting on ordinary Australians.

As they develop and implement increasingly insane policies in a futile attempt to "decarbonise" Australia - in isolation from the rest of the world - their legacy will be a moonscape of crumbling infrastructure and jobs and lives destroyed as human sacrifices to their AGW religion.

One of the enduring tragedies in all of this, of course, will ultimately be these 14 new people being sought for induction into Senator Wong's priesthood. Once the lid is evenutally blown of this Climate Change Scam - as indeed it must - these novices will be forever tainted by this experience. Assuming, that is, that they manage to escape from the building after it is torched by an angry lynch-mob. They will then have to go out into a world seeking a new job (again assuming that any exist) and offer up as their only job reference that "I was part of the Climate Change Department responsible for implementing Rudd and Wong's CPRS. And didn't we do a good job of it!"

Ummm - let me rephrase that ...

I never thought I'd live long enough to see our Great Leader, Kevin "I know" Rudd, allude to the possibility that he was wrong! Or is that mistaken? But there it is in the headlines in The Australian: PM Kevin Rudd admits 50,000 green jobs not new.

When you read a little further into the article, it turns out that not only are they not new, they are not even jobs at all. And there are nowhere near 50,000 of them either. More like 6,000 short-term work-experience or w0rk-for-the-dole time wasters, it would seem.

Mr Rudd, speaking on Melbourne radio 3AW, conceded the 6000 jobs had been negotiated earlier but said the funding was "absolutely new":

"The government's $94 million package is to help train apprentices and young people", he said. "A further 10,000 places will be available in a new national Greens Jobs Corps for six months, during which time eligible unemployed people under 25 will have a training allowance added to their Youth Allowance or Newstart payment."

Oh, right. The "50,000 new green jobs" was a bare-faced lie, but trust me on the "$94 million" bit. This is what passes for "New Leadership" these days. Same old lies, but with new packaging.

During all this kerfuffle, it is instructive to note that there has been a deafening silence from our Dear Leader of the Carbon Revolution, the charming and delightful Senator Wong. We haven't heard anything from her since her abusive tirade against the Opposition last week for daring to question her dog of an ETS legislation.

God forbid that the Senate should actually be used as a house of review. It is hard to believe this is the same Labor party that ranted endlessly at the Howard government a few short years ago for wanting to ram its WorkChoices legislation through the Senate. How things change when you are holding the whip.

So - apparently we now have a revised version of Rudd and Wong's bright new "low-carb" future - unless subsequent corrections are issued. In summary: if you are a young person under 25 and your job prospects are trashed by the ETS, you may have a supplemental training allowance added to your dole payment for six months. This will give rise to the first of the Newspeak definitions to emerge in the post-ETS world: a "green collar unemployed" person will be someone who never gets a start in life because the ETS obliterated their prospects. This will be in contrast to a "blue collar unemployed" person, who is rendered jobless because the ETS obliterated their industry.

However, for the vast bulk of the tens of thousands of "blue collar unemployed" workers thrown onto the scrap heap, all they have to look forward to is the opportunity to cast their vote at the next election. Given that a fair percent of these are likely to be in the mining, manufacturing and electricity generation industries, a cynic would suggest that they could be relied on to vote for Labor anyway.

Apparently Rudd thinks it is more important to win over the 7.79% of people who gave their first preference to the Loopy Greens than it is to retain the 43.38% who actually supported Labor at the last election.

What was that?

What was the quote from our Great Leader, Kevin "King Canute" Rudd, yesterday? Ah yes - "The climate change sceptics constantly scare-monger about the possible loss of jobs through the transition to a lower carbon economy."

The climate change sceptics?? The possible loss of jobs?? It would seem that our Great Leader needs a bit of a reality check.

Browse through the following list and see how many climate change sceptics are represented in their midst (predictions as at 1 August 2009).

Date	Sector/Industry	Jobs	Ref.
30/7/09	Regional Australia to bear brunt of CPRS	45,000	ABC
15/7/09	Queensland miners warn of CPRS impact	28,000	SMH
12/6/09	Carbon trading scheme a risk to local jobs	126,000	G.A.
12/6/09	Bowen Basin jobs under threat from ETS	8,000	C.Q.N.
4/6/09	Alcoa warns of 600 lost jobs from ETS	600	M.W.
22/5/09	Carbon plan will cause jobs carnage	66,000	Aust.
21/5/09	Qld. mining jobs wiped out under CPRS	34,090	QRC
8/5/09	ETS 'will cost 10,000 coal mining jobs'	10,000	B.Times
28/4/09	ETS scheme threat to LNG jobs: Woodside	,000's	SEAAOC
17/3/09	Xstrata, Alcoa see job cuts on ETS	5,800	Bus.Spec.
12/3/09	Food and grocery manufacturing	many	AFGC
29/9/08	Visy warns of job cuts from ETS	160	Aust.

These, of course, are all real, direct and largely full time jobs that will be obliterated by this useless and unnecessary tax.

Now compare this with the fictional work-for-the-dole or part time work-experience "jobs" announced by our Great Leader yesterday.

This blog will be monitoring the status on an ongoing basis.

So will the voters.

A Great Day in "Green Jobs" History

Today, our Great Leader ordained that fifty thousand "Green Jobs" would be created. Opening Labor's national conference, he pledged to create these "green" jobs and apprenticeships for young people, albeit with no time frame specified.

"Today I announce a further measure to assist young Australians during this difficult time in our economy.

"The Government will now create 50,000 new green jobs, traineeships and apprenticeships aimed chiefly at helping young Australians to obtain new skills during the downturn – new skills which will be become highly applicable in the low carbon economy of the future.

"The climate change sceptics constantly scare-monger about the possible loss of jobs through the transition to a lower carbon economy.

"But they constantly fail to talk about the new clean energy jobs of the future which will arise from the introduction of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, the renewable energy target and energy efficiency measures in the future.

"Specifically, these fifty thousand positions will be made up of:

4000 disadvantaged job seekers participating in the current insulation program;

6000 local green jobs through the jobs fund;

10,000 places in a new National Green Jobs Corps;

30,000 trainees and apprentices in priority sectors of the building and construction sectors and other trades, where places will concentrate across the range of “green skills” competencies that will be needed in the future. These will be achieved through a new National Green Skills Agreement and will start building a new skill base in existing industries and cutting-edge industries, and create jobs and opportunities for generations to come.

"The practical job-ready skills included in this training will include:

Training electricians in the installation of solar energy;

Training plumbers in the installation of water-recycling, plumbing systems; and

Training workers in the booming home insulation industry and the retro-fitting of buildings to reduce energy consumption

"Taken together, our Nation-Building for Recovery plan and our Jobs Compact with Australia are designed to help working families see their way through the global economic crisis – rather than allow free market forces to throw them to the wolves."

The devil is always in the detail of course, and within a few hours Mark Arbib (the aptly named "Employment Participation" minister) was confused as to whether these would be paid jobs or work-for-the-dole training. (See here, here, and here).

Maybe they just caught the hapless Mr Arbib on a bad day. Or maybe our Great Leader should pop into Mr Arbib's office in the next day or two and shout at him for a bit until he gets "on-message". A couple of weeks ago, Mr Arbib was certain that 90% of the 530 "jobs" created by the Jobs Fund would be "green jobs" - so clearly he has enough attention span to pick up a simple thread like this.

We shall see.