June 15, 2009

The Mari­time Uni­on says the New South Wales State Gov­ern­ment could teach John Key one or two things about pro­tect­ing jobs.

Nearly $4 bil­lion worth of NSW gov­ern­ment goods and ser­vices includ­ing uni­forms, cars and even trains, will have to be sourced from Aus­trali­an com­pan­ies in order to boost loc­al pro­duc­tion and jobs, in an upcom­ing budget annouce­ment that has been wel­comed by Aus­trali­an uni­ons.

Mari­time Uni­on of New Zea­l­and Gen­er­al Sec­ret­ary Tre­vor Han­son says this idea should be adop­ted imme­di­ately in New Zea­l­and.