A North American expert in black lung has revealed at an inquiry the deadly disease is still killing Queensland coal miners even though authorities thought it was non-existent. United States black...
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As a Senate Select Committee on Health conducts an inquiry into the return of Black Lung disease in Queensland, the CFMEU has made a submission in the hopes of an overhaul of safety practices...
The West Australian government has been accused of abandoning fly-in fly-out workers after it refused to establish the recommendations in a state inquiry into the mental health impacts of FIFO. The...
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...
At the Inquiry into the deaths of two mine company employees during a cyclone in 2007, a surveyor has admitted that his gross incompetence led to a workers camp being built in a high wind risk area...
A mine worker who committed suicide in a FIFO camp last year was afraid to seek help from mine site counsellors for fear he would lose his job, a FIFO mental health inquiry has heard. Peter Miller...
A speaker at the WA Government’s inquiry into mental health impacts of FIFO work has called for new workers to go through an ‘induction period’ to gauge their suitability for the FIFO lifestyle. FIFO...
