The exploitation of working people in the Bowen Basin and Queensland’s labour hire industry will be the focus of a Parliamentary hearing in Mackay today. The hearings of the Finance and...
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A Central Queensland mine worker is suing three companies for $2.5 million after receiving brain damage in a car crash. Norwich Park machine operator Harold Kerle was driving home to Monto from a...
A 28-year-old worker has been killed at Newcrest’s Cadia Valley Operations, near Orange, overnight. The man, a father-of-two, was working at the Ridgeway gold mine underground as a mine...
Fly-in, fly-out workers seeking confidential alcohol and drug support can now access a free 24/7 counselling hotline, developed by the Western Australian Government, to provide assistance and advice...
The NSW Mine Safety Investigation Unit has released an investigation report into the death of an underground mine worker at a mine on June 11, 2014. Read the reports executive summary below. To read...
A mine worker from north Queensland has died in hospital nearly two weeks after being involved in an underground mine incident at Glencore’s Ernest Henry Mine. According to the North West...
The Fair Work commission rejects an appeal for a Moolarben mine worker following serious safety breaches on a mining shovel. Andrew Maunder was dismissed on 22 March 2014 from the NSW coal mine for...
A mine worker has been killed near Consolidated Minerals’ Woodie Woodie manganese mine in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The fatality occurred yesterday on a mining tenement during...
A mine worker who tested positive to methylamphetamine during a routine mine site drug test has told the Fair Work Commission that she believes her drink was spiked during a hotel drinking binge...
A mine worker has broken his foot 5 kilometres underground at the Dendrobium mine at Mount Kembla in New South Wales. According to the Illawarra Mercury the incident occurred this morning when a...
