WA Mine workers face sackings
PERTH: 'Welcome to the "State of Excitement"-drive safely, there are 35,000 unemployed walking the streets', says a poster of the West Australian Unemployed…
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Gold Coast gets full time rabbi
The Gold Coast Hebrew Congregation has appointed Rabbi Abraham Avnit as its minister, the Board of Management announced recently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Coast end to Fun Run
SPORTING personality, Tom Raudonikis, will officially start this year’s Blacktown Advocate-Apex Fun Run on May 28…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bjelke steals island for mining companies
BRISBANE: The best way to destroy a people is to destroy their sacred sites. The Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Israel: major market for Australian coal
Following successful negotiations of longterm contracts by several Australian producers and the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC:), Israel has emerged as a major market for Australian coal. The IEC is expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Israel in Huge Coal Purchase
Israel will import up to 750,000 tons of coal a year over the next 30 years from Australia. This follows a basic agreement reached last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wa Aborigines Mining Protest Ignored
PERTH: The Court government is intriguing to secure the rich oil, gas and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alligator River Aborigines 'no' to mining
DARWIN: Aboriginal traditional land owners in the Northern Territory's Alligator River region say they don't want uranium mining. The April issue of Land Rights News reports that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Will Victorian Coal Go Up in Smoke? Victorian brown coal will start to run out in the year 2023
The Conservation of Urban Energy Council predicts that if energy consumption rises 6.6 per cent annually, as the State Electricity Commission (SEC) estimates, Victoria will "have major…
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NEWCASTLE: Former Miners Federation general president Evan Phillips warns of unemployment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shhh! We're mining uranium
South Australia's Attorney-General, Peter Duncan, describes the Fraser government's uranium legislation as "some of the most repressive passed in Australia in a generation"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold gets gold
During 1977 a totally US-owned company operating in Australia Newmont Pty Ltd was able to slip at least $5.87 million out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners battle Utah giant
Mine workers at Goonyella, Peak Downs, Saraji and Blackwater have again voted massively to continue their strike against multinational…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Utah miners fight on
Utah miners voted 1,165 to seven to stay out for at least another week in a strike already said to be Australia's most costly. The strike is a test case in the battle between…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Call to Ban Coal Loader
PORT KEMBLA: Ship repair workers at a stopwork meeting last week called for a ban…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal reserves go out the back door
MELBOURNE: Metal Workers Union secretary, John Halpenny, has accused the Hamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blacks put terms on diamond mining
PERTH: Multinational mining companies want to move into the Kimberleys to search for diamonds with State government backing but the Aborigines will only allow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Why Aboriginals Fight Miners
Prior to the arrival of Europeans in Australia Aborigines (Koories) had been living here peacefully for some 50,000 years. During this period the Koories had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aborigines support Utah miners
SYDNEY: Students at the Aborigine Co-operataive College Tranby in Glebe, an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Industrial News Miners pause in Utah fight
Utah miners at the four central Queensland mines last Friday voted 1,145 to 95 to accept the return to work proposals by the Combined Mining Unions (CMU)…
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