Senior federal ministers have not endorsed the Nationals plan to use more coal-fired power to help create manufacturing jobs. The party yesterday released a 20-page document aiming for an ambitious target of 800,000 manufacturing jobs in 15 years. It included building more coal and gas-fired power stations to lower energy costs, setting up and Office of Regional Manufacturing in Gladstone and Newcastle, tax incentives, as well as taking more action on trade. The Nationals are calling for more coal-fired power stations to be built as part of a plan to create manufacturing jobs. The Nationals have admitted there was no modelling done on how to reach the 800,000 job target, saying it was a goal based on reaching 10 per cent of Australians employed in manufacturing.