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Mining & the mines, 1979

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The Grab for Coal

Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1979 · page 1

As energy assumes ever-greater importance in multinational planning, big local and foreign companies are scrambling to get control of Australia's coal resources…

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Coal and the Profit Push

Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1979 · page 2

Multinationals have a natural impetus to dominate national economies in the name of profit, but their interest in Australian coal reserves has been spurred by the quest for a…

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Mine strike builds organisation

Tribune · Wednesday 5 December 1979 · page 4

PORT HEDLAND: A strike by about 20 workers at Dresser Minerals (called the "North Pole") has radically…

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Aborigines stop sand mining

Tribune · Wednesday 5 December 1979 · page 3

WOLLONGONG: Aborigines of the Unyuin tribe in the Wallaga Lake region (near Bermagui on the NSW South Coast) have stopped a planned sand mining venture there…

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Good wishes, Bernie Gold

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 December 1979 · page 28

The many friends of former Hakoah Soccer star and NSW Maccabi sportsman,…

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