Controversial mining industrial legislation has received bipartisan support in the Queensland Parliament today despite growing debate across the industry that the laws may not improve safety in mines...
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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...
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...
Queensland Minister of Mines, Dr Anthony Lynham has flagged the implementation of mining industrial manslaughter legislation in Parliament today following the seventh death of a mineworker at a...
Worker advocates are pleading with the mining industry to take responsibility for Black Lung disease. It comes after the 19th confirmed case of the deadly disease. The Construction Forestry Mining...
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 mines will have to ditch 100% fly-in fly-out and hire locally under proposed Queensland Government legislation. Minister for State Development and Minister for Natural Resources and Mines...
Mining companies in Queensland can no longer gain access to a privately owned property by proceeding directly to the Land Court after 40 days, should a landholder in a Priority Agricultural Area or...
A new bill designed to limit the power of unions to call a ‘stop work’ over health and safety issues on work sites has been officially introduced to the Queensland Parliament. The Bill...
New legislation that changes the definition of a worker for workers’ compensation purposes has been passed in the Queensland Parliament. The legislation, which comes into effect on 1 July 2013...
