Coal and mining exploration sees jobs boom despite COVID-19 pandemic pressures
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Both the exploration and coal mining industries experienced a boom in jobs last quarter.
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Mining across Australia
has seen a boom in activity in recent months, with several parts of the industry recording growth in job vacancies.
Key points:
Exploration companies in WA and Queensland are driving employment levels
Companies say they are struggling to fill vacancies
Coal industry jobs in
Queensland saw a 40 per cent rise last quarter, while unemployment among geoscientists dropped to its fourth lowest level in 10 years.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data showed the state had 78,000 jobs in the resources sector, the highest since 2013 according to Queensland Resources Council chief executive Ian Macfarlane.
The vice-like grip Murdoch has traditionally enjoyed on the Australian media goes back to former Prime Minister John Howard’s changes to the cross media laws, allowing individuals to own all types of media concurrently.
The monopoly fallout continues today, including the recent restructuring of what used to be regional media, with many regional TV stations taken over by Sky, local papers closing and hundreds of journalists made redundant.
Nonetheless, there are signs the mainstream advertising-centric, partisan media model may have had its day.
Michael West told
Green Left that despite the spin, the old media empires are crumbling, bleeding money and journalists over many years.
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