Published: 5 Apr 2012
WORKERS at seven BHP Bowen Basin coalmines look to strike again in protest against the company's latest enterprise...
Published: 17 Dec 2011
BUSINESSES throughout the Bowen Basin are struggling to find qualified staff, but will importing skilled workers from...
Published: 5 Apr 2012
EVEN with Central Queensland miners returning to the coalface, BHP cannot promise its international customers their coal...
Published: 3 Jan 2012
GET ready for the next mining boom because it's on its way.
Published: 13 Jan 2012
THE pre-training supplement known as Jack3d has been banned at a Bowen Basin mine after reports workers were using the...
Published: 21 Mar 2013
IT COULD take half a decade for Queensland’s coal exporters to match the revenue they were earning just 12 months ago.
Published: 16 May 2013
WAVES of investment into Central Queensland from BHP Billiton have already started to recede.
Published: 28 Nov 2012
THE hiccuping of Queensland’s traditional engine room in Central Queensland is being drowned out by the economic roars from...
Published: 17 Oct 2012
IN THE three months before a ceasefire was brokered between BHP Billiton’s CQ coal mines and workers, more than one million...
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