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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...

Premium Content Subscriber only Veteran miner Peter Guinea and his fellow teammates have been called into a meeting with the site superintendent during the COVID-19 lockdown. He says the superintendent tells them they have crunched the numbers and there is going to be people laid off at the mine site, specifically, labour hire workers. It's June 2020 and they are given assurances that it probably won't happen for three months or so. Mr Guinea speaks up, asking the superintendent if fly-in-fly-out workers would be told they had lost their job before they flew home. This way they could col...

‘An underground explosion is every underground miner’s worst nightmare.’

Australian union petition over Grosvenor Mine disaster a cynical diversion Over 200 miners at Anglo-American’s underground Grosvenor Mine, amounting to around 75 percent of the workforce, have signed a petition calling for the dismissal of the site’s senior leadership team. The mine, located in Central Queensland, was the site of a massive methane gas explosion on May 6 last year that left five workers with horrific injuries. The petition, instigated by the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU), declares that since the explosion, management at Grosvenor “have g...

Premium Content Subscriber only Safety regulators have approved the initial re-entry steps at Anglo American’s Grosvenor Mine almost a year after an underground explosion seriously injured five coal miners. Resources Safety and Health Queensland began inspections at Grosvenor’s underground mine this week as Anglo started its re-entry process onsite. Anglo American confirmed re-entry today. It is just weeks shy of the 12-month anniversary of the May 6 explosion at the longwall panel. RSHQ, in a statement, said the staged re-entry of the mine was scheduled to start on Thursday and followed ...