A resources employer group wants every remote jobseeker to state in writing whether they were ever responsible for substandard work conditions. Fly-in fly-out (FIFO) recruitment candidates could be...
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The Queensland Shadow Minister for Queensland’s Mines and Quarries says the ongoing safety issues in mines and quarries must be addressed in the wake of the Grosvenor Mine explosion. This week...
Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Dale Last, has sent a blunt message to Natural Resources, Mines and Energy Minister, Anthony Lynham. Mr Last said, given his failure to address safety...
A Queensland mine safety bureaucrat has updated a position on statements made to a Parliamentary Committee. Executive Director Mark Stone, was asked during an inquiry into the Mineral and Energy...
A Queensland top mine safety bureaucrat has told a Parliamentary Committee into the Mineral and Energy Resources and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2020, that the Department’s Mines...
Public hearings for the Queensland parliamentary inquiry into black lung disease have started today, just days after it was revealed an open cut miner was diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease...
Queensland Parliament has appointed a six-person Parliamentary select committee to inquire into how black lung re-emerged and how to prevent it. Minister for Natural resources and Mines Dr Anthony...
The Queensland Government has committed to a Parliamentary inquiry into the re-emergence of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis. The deadly lung disease, more commonly known as black lung, was thought...
A parliamentary report into the fly-in fly-out work practices in regional Queensland has slammed ‘postcode discrimination’ and has called for change. The report, released on Friday, recommends...
GDF Suez are refusing to pay the $18 million bill for fire fighting efforts to extinguish a fire that burned for 45 days at their Hazelwood mine in Victoria, blanketing nearby towns in smokes and ash...
