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Business by Michael Wray Premium Content Subscriber only Females will make up nearly 60 per cent of new apprentices at Australia's 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 skills including resource processing, surface extraction, business administration, supply chain operat...

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 that, governments are looking to stimulate their economies," he said. "Once you start stimulating the ...

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, social elements and community facilities needed. “We’re going to the community and asking w...

  Fellow mourners comforted Win Manning at her husband Rod Manning’s funeral at St Patrick's 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 gathered to bid the late journalist, historian, mentor, friend, husband, father and brother farewel...