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Business by Michael Wray Premium Content Subscriber only Females will make up nearly 60 per cent of new apprentices at Australias largest coal producer this year, as BMA announces a major boost to its Queensland workforce. The incoming group of 60 apprentices is the largest since BMA started a work readiness program in 2011 and will be the first time women have outnumbered men. BMA is also recruiting 67 trainees to join the new apprentices in a range of ski...

The Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry will restart next month.

Premium Content Subscriber only Stimulus packages coming off the back of the worldwide vaccine rollout will inject a boost of confidence into the resources sector. That is according to Resource Industry Network general manager Dean Kirkwood, who said there was much for the sector to look forward to in 2021. Mr Kirkwood said coal prices had bounced back, with mine sites in the Bowen Basin now looking to ramp up production again. "With the worldwide (COVID) vaccine rollout, on the back of tha...

Premium Content Subscriber only The Isaac region hopes to move from a “year of sadness” to one of opportunity as residents are asked to take charge of the future in their communities. Isaac Regional Council Mayor Anne Baker said this year was about recovery and resilience. Cr Baker said in the first six months of the year the Isaac region would set out its vision for the next five years. She said the council would touch base with all its communities to discuss the infrastructure, so...

  Fellow mourners comforted Win Manning at her husband Rod Manning’s funeral at St Patricks Catholic Church, Mackay, on Tuesday December 8. Picture: Zizi Averill Rod Manning Former Daily Mercury editor Rod Manning never left home without a notepad and a pen in his breast pocket. During his 17 years in the role, and many years as a reporter before that, he thought of journalism as a "noble pursuit" of truth and justice. "He was a news man," his son John Manning told the people who had ...

Hummingbird House received more than $6500 from Coles shoppers and team members in Mackay. Stores at Northern Beaches, Parkside Plaza and Caneland Central were praised for their efforts and donations, despite the financial challenges from COVID-19. Parkside Plaza Coles store manager Josh Back said the appeal was an opportunity for his team to raise money for Queenslands only childrens hospice.     Mackay Regional Council Strategic Planning manager Jaco Ackerman and Mayor Greg Williamson...

Premium Content It has been a year of incredible highs and lows for Queensland mining. One of the biggest mine disasters in recent history rocked the industry, paving the way for the first ever Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry. Two weeks after the Grosvenor mine blast, tough new mine safety laws passed in Queensland parliament to establish industrial manslaughter as an offence in mines and quarries. Here are the major mine safety disasters, tragedies and triumphs of 2020:   A mine...

Premium Content Forget Christmas in July - this Christmas were rewinding back to July. And what a month it was, from businesses still experiencing pandemic woes, Whitsundays being earmarked for military bases and space stations and fresh Keswick Island disputes. Heres the top headlines in Mackay in July 2020. Mackay War Memorial Pool Community Action Group committee members (from left): Jane Conlon, Carol Single, Sue Willett and Graham Townsend with VC recipient Keith Payne (centre) at the ...

Premium Content Subscriber only The Queensland Mines Inspectorate has bungled its handling of high potential incidents in the past because of ineffective information processing and management. This was one of the findings outlined in part one of the Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquirys report, which focused on the initial tranche of public hearings held in August. These hearings explored various high potential incidents in Central Queensland coal mines, the Mines Inspectorate, the role o...

Premium Content Subscriber only This year will probably go down in the history books as one of the most eventful in modern history. For some, it was a year they would like to forget. But for others, it was an opportunity to start afresh. No matter how much you were affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that 2020 was quite the rollercoaster ride for the human race. From the fallout of coronavirus to disasters we never saw coming and the moments that made us proud to ca...