The Queensland Government has introduced legislation to provide lifetime care and support to workers who are catastrophically injured in the workplace. Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace said...
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It is highly likely that, as a manager, you will supervise a worker with a mental illness or mental stress at some point in your career – whether you know it or not. Mental illness is more prevalent...
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...
More than 70 workers sacked from Cockatoo Coal’s Baralaba coal operation seven weeks ago are still waiting to be paid their entitlements. The workers were laid off from the operation, located...
The allure of a ‘legal’ drug, undetectable by any workplace test is tempting workers in the mining industry who are chasing that synthetic high, which often rivals the effects of the more common...
A new study by the University of Adelaide’s School of Public Health has linked data from worker compensation claims with temperature records. The study, Perceptions of Workplace Heat Exposure and...
UPDATE: A third body has been recovered from Glencore’s Katanga mine after a geotechnical failure earlier this week. The incident, which occurred on the north wall of the KOV open pit mine...
Two workers were hospitalised, and another injured, after being exposed to a high pressure fluid release in October, a NSW Mine Safety report has revealed. Maintenance activities on an excavator were...
Labor and the Coalition have reached an agreement on the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement this week. The agreement follows the government’s offer to amend migration regulations to ensure...
Marking 100 days since the agreement was signed in Canberra, Chinese ambassador Ma Zhaoxu will issue a statement about the free trade agreement between Australia and China. According to an exclusive...
