The words of Bob Dylan's song, "the times they are a-changin'" are coming true as coal mines & coal fired power stations are being decommissioned at end of useful life and as energy markets and policies change.
Nationally and locally, our community faces challenges to shape the future of jobs and the economy. 
Lithgow locals ⁠⁠have a petition calling for Government to take back and use the idle Lithgow Loco Workshop⁠⁠ - 1/4 to 1/3 of Lithgow's industrial land. The workshops are ideal for retrofitting freight trains for a hybrid electric future, providing many trade jobs for Lithgow and the Mountains in a very short time.
Speaker Steve Murphy said, "if you think of regions like
Collie in WA, or the Hunter Valley just up the road, if we think about Gladstone, or the La Trobe Valley, and even just down the road here [at Mount Piper] the power stations, is the closure dates are up on the walls, and workers are watching the clock tick down for those closure dates."
"The piece of the puzzle that is missing is the opening date of the factories for the workers to train, to transfer to to know that their economic and their financial security is going to be looked after.
Part 2 of Creating Future Jobs - Q&A features the audience questioning Steve and Michelle.
"Dr Michelle Zeibots is a Lithgow Local & Research Director and Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, Transport Research Centre. She is a transport planner, specialising in the analysis of sustainable urban passenger transport systems.
Steve Murphy is the National Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union campaigning to "Build Them Here" & "Save our Skills".
Here are links to the bios of ⁠Michelle Zeibots⁠ and ⁠Steve Murphy⁠⁠⁠⁠.
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The content of this podcast is from a Politics in the Pub hosted by BMUC at the Family Hotel on 16th November and was produced by Debra Smith.
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