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Diane Smith-Gander urges the Sex Discrimination Commissioner’s inquiry to take a harder look at Parliament’s culture and blasts lack of united leadership on interstate borders.
The $2b exploration boom quietly under way Share An “unprecedented” flow of cash into the high-risk mineral exploration sector has sparked a drilling boom that is causing huge backlogs at the laboratories whose assays determine success or failure. More than $2.2 billion flowed into the 656 pre-revenue explorers on the ASX in the final three months of 2020, in a result that was 72 per cent higher than average and was described by advisory firm BDO as “unprecedented”. Veteran explorer John Holliday says the “super optimism” for investment in things is probably driven by the fact “...
The labour shortage has meant some exploration rigs in Western Australia have been left idle, causing concern for junior miners.
$100k job no Australians want One Australian industry offering six-figure salaries is struggling to find employees thanks to JobKeeper payments and border closures. Careers 28th Jan 2021 8:11 PM Despite offering six-figure salaries, drilling companies in Western Australia are struggling to fill spots on mines as a result of the JobKeeper wage subsidy and coronavirus-enforced border closures. A number of exploration rigs in the state, offering $100,000-a-year pay packets, have been left idle due to the lack of workers, causing concern that investors will ta...