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It’s not a governments role to gamble with the communities wellbeing using the no pain no gain philosophy.

The government is responsible for coming up with ideas for how to run the country. They make policies – plans of action –, propose new laws and put new laws into action for Australia

The hydrogen plant was always a gamble, the expense far outweighed any benefits promised to the tax payers and a steel plant using 1970’s technology.

If the government was seriously thinking about the blue collar workers and their future they would have ensured that the steel industry had access to the cheapest form of power, which would have allowed for productivity and profit to grow and improve the company.

Instead we have government trying to green the country with expensive carbon free energy, while competing with countries like China, India and Indonesia. And now the USA.

History shows that governments have a terrible track record of picking successful industries and businesses. And the hydrogen industry that Labor has been pushing is failing in front of us.