Partners of fly-in fly-out workers have higher levels of emotional problems than other parents in the community, and are at a greater risk of using harsh discipline with their children, University of...
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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...
The CFMEU have put pressure on the Government to ensure job security in the Queensland mining industry. The union pointed out that despite coal production increasing by 50 million tonnes since 2011...
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...
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...
An iron ore company owned by Rio Tinto has pleaded guilty to failing to provide a safe working environment for its employees, after the death of a man at a Western Australian mine. Brent Glew, 27...
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...
Reports are coming in that a mine worker has been killed and another injured early this morning when a truck tyre exploded at a mine near Moura in Central Queensland. The ABC is reporting that the...
