MINERAL INDUSTRIES – WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for WA FIFO and mining workers

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Original article by James Carmody
abc.net.au – Page: Online : 6-Oct-21

The Western Australian government has advised that all workers in the state’s mining and energy sector will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This includes ‘fly-in, fly-out’ workers and all visitors to resources projects in the state. The directive will apply to about 100,000 people, who must have their first vaccine dose by 1 December and be fully vaccinated by the start of 2022. Premier Mark McGowan says that amongst other things, the ‘no jab, no job’ policy will protect remote Aboriginal communities; he notes that the mining sector is the largest employer of indigenous people in regional WA.

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PREMIER AND CABINET

Miners braced for wave of cultural-loss claims

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Original article by Victoria Laurie
The Australian – Page: 2 : 4-Apr-19

Indigenous land owners in Western Australia’s Goldfields region will lodge a compensation claim following the High Court’s recent landmark ruling in the Timber Creek case. Malcolm O’Dell, the lawyer representing the Tjiwarl people, says the compensation claim for economic and cultural loss resulting from mining activity may include more than 100 mining companies. Indigenous people are also expected to pursue compensation claims for mining activity in WA’s Pilbara and Kimberley regions.

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HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA, THE CHAMBER OF MINERALS AND ENERGY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA INCORPORATED, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF TREASURY AND FINANCE, TJIWARL CORPORATION, YAMATJI MARLPA ABORIGINAL CORPORATION

Eastern exodus as job mine runs dry

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Original article by Victoria Laurie
The Australian – Page: 4 : 27-Sep-17

The downturn in Western Australia’s resources boom has prompted a growing number of people to move interstate, reversing the internal migration trend that boosted the state’s population at the peak of the boom. Data from the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre shows that just 7,700 people moved to WA in 2016, while 11,300 left the state. Rebecca Cassells of Curtin University notes that the number of people moving to WA has traditionally been closely aligned with the iron ore price, but this is no longer so despite the recent rebound in the price of the steel input.

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CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. BANKWEST CURTIN ECONOMICS CENTRE