{"id":307158,"date":"2019-12-24T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307158"},"modified":"2019-12-24T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:31:11","slug":"australian-prime-minister-dismisses-reckless-calls-to-curb-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/australian-prime-minister-dismisses-reckless-calls-to-curb-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Prime Minister dismisses \u2018reckless\u2019 calls to curb coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney: Under-fire Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday rejected calls for \u201creckless\u201d and \u201cjob-destroying\u201d cuts to the country\u2019s vast coal industry in the face of a deadly climate-fuelled bushfire crisis. Morrison\u2019s conservative government has fiercely defended the lucrative coal industry in Australia, which produces a third of global coal exports and provides work in key swing electoral districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not going to write off the jobs of thousands of Australians by walking away from traditional industries,\u201d Morrison told the Seven Network, in one of several morning interviews rejecting calls for further action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney: Under-fire Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday rejected calls for \u201creckless\u201d and \u201cjob-destroying\u201d cuts to the country\u2019s vast coal industry in the face of a deadly climate-fuelled bushfire crisis. Morrison\u2019s conservative government has fiercely defended the lucrative coal industry in Australia, which produces a third of global coal exports and provides work in key swing electoral districts. \u201cI am not going to write off the jobs of thousands of Australians by walking away from traditional industries,\u201d Morrison told the Seven Network, in one of several morning interviews rejecting calls for further action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}