Future Jobs and Investment Committee
Future Jobs and Investment Authority
Once established, the Future Jobs and Investment Authorities will be made up of local representatives in each coal-reliant region to advise the Government on regional priorities and investment opportunities.
In June 2025, the Minns Government announced that the 2025-26 NSW Budget will include $27.3 million over four years to fund the Authority. Council is advocating for the Central West Future Jobs and Authority office to be located in Lithgow, one of the NSW regions most affected by the energy transition, and where there is significant groundwork currently occurring in the Lithgow area under LEEP, which would support the newly established office.
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Future Jobs and Investment Committee
This Committee is currently suspended pending the establishment of the Future Jobs and Investment Authority.
While the Future Jobs and Investment Authority is being established, LEEP instigated an interim Future Jobs and Investment Committee to advise the community’s key transitions management actors – the Commonwealth Government and the Commonwealth Net Zero Agency, the State Government, Council, the local knowledge sector, Centennial Coal, Energy Australia and the Mining and Energy Union.
The function of the Committee was to advise the community’s key transitions management actors (The Commonwealth Government and the Commonwealth Net Zero Authority, the State Government, Council, Western Sydney University, Centennial Coal, Energy Australia and the Mining and Energy Union) on:
• the consequences and opportunities associated with changes to coal mining and coal-fired power generation in the Lithgow LGA particularly in relation to the impact on employment and economic activity.
• the prioritisation of initiatives which support alternative land uses of coal mining and coal- fired power generation sites.
• the prioritisation of initiatives which support the economic resilience of the Lithgow LGA by facilitated investment in alternative industries.
• the prioritisation of initiatives which support the re-deployment, re-skilling, and adaptive capacity of the workforce in the Lithgow LGA.
• the priority of such other initiatives which may contribute to the successful transition of the Lithgow LGA, and
• to provide a forum to discuss the collaborative implementation of actions