Economic recovery is top of mind for Australians, and governments have a crucial role to play in making targeted investments and implementing policies that can put Australians back to work. In doing so governments can choose to invest in initiatives that set us up for the future, creating win/win solutions that create jobs and tackle long-term problems at the same time.

This Clean Jobs Plan provides a whole-of-economy solution. It identifies 12 major policy opportunities to immediately kick-start economic growth. Collectively, these opportunities represent 76,000 jobs. Job creation would start immediately and continue over a three-year period.

Crucially, these opportunities are shovel ready, deliberately targeted to regions and occupations hit hardest by job losses, and have the potential to grow the entire economy in the long term.

Key findings:

• Implementing the Clean Jobs Plan will help people and industries that have been hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis, especially in regional Australia.
• The Clean Jobs Plan identifies thousands of job opportunities in every state and hundreds in each territory.
• Economic stimulus can set Australia up for the future by creating jobs, kick-starting the economy and tackling climate change simultaneously.