The Board of Inquiry into Queensland Grosvenor mine gas explosion has heard from Chief Inspector Peter Newman that the number of coal mine safety inspectors was well below the full number of...
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The Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry has called an extensive list of witnesses from Government, Unions and Anglo American to provide evidence in surrounding the underground gas explosion at...
The Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry that will examine the Grosvenor mine gas explosion will commence public hearings in early August. Chairperson and Board Member, Mr Terry Martin SC said...
The Queensland Parliament has approved the creation of a new mine safety authority today. The move comes following a spate of deaths and a hundred of high potential incidents in the Queensland mining...
The Queensland Government’s push for changes to mining safety legislation has come under fire from big miners, individuals and a range of leading organisations that will be responsible for applying...
The Queensland Parliament has heard that the Minister responsible for mine safety, Dr Anthony Lynham failed to use existing powers to investigate fatal mining accidents. In an address to Queensland...
While pledging his support for the creation of Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) in parliament today, Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Dale Last, turned up the heat on his...
The Queensland Shadow Minister for mine safety says that the Queensland Government’s approach to mine safety is an insult to workers in the resources sector after further delays to reports on...
The Queensland Government will commence new mines inspectors in Rockhampton, Mackay and Mount Isa over the next two weeks In a media release issued today, Acting Mines Minister Mark Ryan said the...
Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Dale Last, has labelled the Queensland government’s delay in releasing two independent reviews into mine safety an insult and said the government is...
OPINION There’s a kind of numbness that comes with hearing the news of another fatal mine accident in Queensland Australia. The latest fatal incident at Curragh mine has left me with feelings of...
The Queensland LNP Opposition has hit out at the Queensland Government’s lack of action on mine safety following the death of another mineworker at the Curragh mine yesterday saying that...
