The lessons of the 1994 Moura mine disaster in Australia Terry Cook, a long-standing member of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) delivered this speech at the webinar “ .” The webinar was hosted by the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) to discuss the causes of the 2010 Pike River disaster and the efforts by successive New Zealand governments, abetted by the trade unions and the entire political establishment, to protect the corporate criminals responsible. Dear friends and comrades. When I first heard the news of the Pike River mine disaster, my mind raced back over the many si...