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Bullying rife Productivity and workers suffer

DESPITE all the policies and procedures to block and ban bullying in the workplace, it seems the soul-destroying behaviour is entrenched across Queensland mine sites.

One worker who contacted Shift Miner but did not want to identified for fear of fur-

ther victimisation said her career had been destroyed by bullying, which had become so bad it was affecting her family life.

Her experience, as sad and disturbing as it sounded, is unfortunately not uncommon.

The Australian Mines & Metals Asso-

ciation (AMMA) believes bullying to be rife in worksites across the coalfields and largely backed by unions who are pushing their agenda.

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Big hurdles for small business in gas boom THE rags-to-riches business stories that typified earlier construction booms in Australia may have come to an end.

It’s ironic that the major sponsor of last week’s industry conference in Gladstone Goldings - got its start in Gladstone when it

was a one-man band.

However, the unspoken message at the conference was that unless you are large and have a proven track record, getting a piece of the Coal Seam Gas action is very difficult.

One conference goer told Shift Min-

There are a lot of hoops to jump through to get a slice of the gas sector business but once a company is accepted by the big players it can be very rewarding and lucrative.

er that it CSG appeared a closed shop and there were no actual strategies for local businesses to take away.

Another locally-based engineering businessman said he responded to a gas company’s urgent request for fabrication services and was told that he was too small and that moving further with the application was a waste of time.

With $180 billion of investment in LNG and most of this in the Gladstone region, it should be good for local businesses.

The message from Arrow Energy, QGC, GLNG and Bechtel was the same when it came to getting a bit of their business.

They are looking for businesses who have the same standards as they do, and also they need to award contracts to their original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners first.

“If you want to work with Arrow in construction or long-term maintenance you need to understand where you fit in,” Arrow Energy’s Willem Klinker, group contracts and procurement manager said.

“We use big industry contractors and they go out and get sub-contractors.”

What a business must prove is that it has the capability and the capacity to supply and it needs to be competitive.

“You will need a rigorousness of systems

to deliver projects of this scale and complexity,” Mr Klinker said.

But before even getting to this stage, each of these LNG projects list safety of primary importance.

“We place safety as the highest goal we have,” Mr Klinker said.

“Safety systems, safety attitudes etc have to be there.

“Safety and compliance are the most critical things we are looking for, and then cost.

“We have a simple life rules safety rules – if you break a rule, we stop doing business with you.”

With Arrow, QGC, and GLNG, the first step to a conversation is to register your business on their website. Each company has a page dedicated to this.

GLNG team leader contracts and procurement Adam Dickens also outlined the process.

Once a business has registered an interest, GLNG will select which ones to invite to tender.

“We have to engage with our OEMs first, but we are committed to getting local participation,” he said.

QGC’s operations director Walter Simpson said there were “reasonable” opportunities for local and Australian businesses to compete for contracts.

“With $180 billion of investment in LNG and most of this in the Gladstone region, it should be good for local businesses.”

Australia needs a new “big thing”: Westpac THE Westpac bank has said it expected a modest recovery in coal and steel prices next year, but warned gas prices could fall.

However, their chief economist Bill Evans said the mining sector can not be relied upon to drive the Australian economy into the future.

He made the point at last week’s Golding Industry Conference in Gladstone and added the Australian economy would need a new “big thing” if it wants to grow.

Mr Evans said that once the $180 billion worth of investment into LNG infrastructure in Australia is spent and exports begin, international competition may also be ramping up.

“My concern is that we are not the only country with unconventional gas - North America and China have it too,” he said.

“I think we will see the US push more gas into this area as gas prices are higher in

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Asia - $16 a Gigajoule, compared with $3 in the US.” For the moment however, Mr Evans said Australia would enjoy strong prices because the US was concentrating on its own energy needs and China has not yet developed it’s own gas industry.

However, he warned that we needed a plan for the future.

“What will happen in five years time, the gas model has done its job, so where is the next boom?,” he said.

“For the Australian economy overall, we need another driver, that’s why we are focusing on interest rates and the need to get the housing market moving.

“I think coking coal and iron ore will make a comeback next year on the back of an economic recovery in China.

“But not many people share my opinion, but I will be recalcitrant on this issue.”

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A decade of dredging: Gladstone FAST NEWS DREDGING in Gladstone Harbour is likely to continue well into the next decade as the Gladstone Port Corporation (GPC) prepares for the vast quantity of industrial projects planned for the city.

Just last month a $400 million second main shipping channel for Gladstone Harbour was declared a significant project by the Queensland Coordinator-General.

It’s expected to commence in 2015 and will require a workforce of up to 100 people during its construction over nearly two years.

After its completion there will be an ongoing maintenance dredging program.

According to the GPC’s Gary Carter, the second channel is needed to allow ships to reliably service the port in all tides.

“At this point there is only one channel, and large deep draft vessels picking up coal from Wiggins Island Coal Terminal are tidally constrained,” he said.

“The maximum depth is currently 17 metres which means large cape-sized vessels need to use the tide for maximum draft.

“But we had 3000 vessel movements last year and because it’s a single channel,

if there is a grounding - and we can’t deny we have had vessels touch - then the whole harbour is blocked.

“All of those issues cause us concern with the supply chain arrangements.”

Vessel movement in the harbour is expected to increase by 20 per cent in the short term, largely because of demands from the already committed LNG proponents.

However, a number of other possible expansions like Sunshine Gas, Gladstone LNG, and Gladstone Nickel, if approved, will need further port access.

And with natural deep water access limited to small sections of the Gladstone harbour frontage and the main channels, GPC said it planning for further dredging.

“The issue we are facing is that the introduction of bigger vessels at Fishermans Landing and the access that they will be requiring may well require early intervention - for which approval was given under the western basin project,” Mr Carter said.

“Hamilton Point is the other big area we see for future development, but the big issue there is land access and there is a lot of rock,

but it is capable of taking cape-sized vessels.

“But we have concerns about how close ships servicing that port would go to Curtis Island, so we see it more as an importing channel.

“Eventually, full duplication of the main channel will require a further 40 million cubic metres of dredging, but we have adopted a staged approach to match industry growth.

“We will start with the duplication of the Gatcombe and Golding channels, deepening it to 13.5 metres which will allow deep draft panamax and light draft capes sized vessels.”

viding a chairman’s review when the report showed he did not attend any board meetings as chairman in the measured financial period.

“The coming months will see the board and I work effectively with GPC’s management team to ensure we create an environment where significant returns can be generated for the state, while at the same time, showing respect for our citizens, neighbours, customers, employees and the environment,” he said in the 131-page report.

In the past year the port has been dogged by water quality issues and a court case by fishing related businesses that blamed lost income and fish deaths on dredging.

Social media was quick to criticise the results with one online critic, AussieMike

THE Paradise South Phosphate Project north-west of Mount Isa has been given the go-ahead by the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP).

The mine will produce up to seven million tonnes of rock phosphate each year, and the annual operating expenditure on the mine project is expected to be around $200 million per year over the 20 year operating life of the mine. The benefit to the regional economy will be approximately $150 million per year with the construction stage of the mine creating 250 jobs. About 325 people will work at the mine once operational. ..............................................................................

Airlines mull over FIFO

Big industry brings big ships and Gladstone Harbour is to have another 10 years of dredging to accommodate larger vessels.

Port profits up but criticisms remain GLADSTONE Ports Corporation has lifted after tax profit by 26 per cent on last financial year to $180million.

The state-owned corporation also provided a dividend of $48.11 million - up from $42.08 million the previous year. The figures were in its recently released annual report for 2011-12.

GPC saved about $3 million in operational costs, and is aiming to deliver $58 million in after tax profit for this current financial year.

There were a record total movements at Port Alma for the financial year at 421,000 tonnes - 40 per cent higher than forecasts.

Chairman Mark Brodie said he is still in the process of evaluating the business after being placed in his role by the state government in July.

He was in the unusual situation of pro-

Phosphate mine gets go-ahead

stating that the returns provided by the GPC weren’t good enough.

“An after Tax Profit of $58 Million is the goal for this financial year, thats an absolute disgrace,” he wrote on a local news site.

“You mean to tell me that after one full year of work and 60 million tonne of coal put into ships, that this place is only clearing $1 per tonne, when they earn transfer costs out there at $7 per tonne.

“Hmmm where is the other $6 per tonne going? That is complete fiscal mismanagement, I’m with you (Campbell) Newman, keep heads rolling out there . . .”.

Meanwhile, Premier Campbell Newman has also said he is expecting improvements in performance from the GPC this financial year.

THE Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) has discussed the impacts of a forecast slowdown in the mining industry on fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) services. About 300 industry representatives from across Australia attended a two-day convention on the Sunshine Coast last week. Airlines shared information on how FIFO works and how it can improve and the effect that any mining slowdown may have. ..............................................................................

Gas boom costly A REPORT into the gas boom has slammed its impact on the economy. The Australian Industry Group and the Plastics and Chemicals Association commissioned the report and the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research produced it. Released late last week, the report says the boom in natural gas exports from the east coast is driving up the price of domestic gas and limiting its supply, risking harm to manufacturing, increasing household energy costs and resulting in “a very significant negative impact” on jobs and the economy. The report says about 24 million tonnes of gas will be exported from Queensland in in 2023. ..............................................................................

Alpha Coal EIS out THE Coordinator-General has released the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the $4.2 billion South Galilee thermal coal project at Alpha. If the project goes ahead it would create about 2900 jobs during the construction and operation phase. If approved the mine could produce up to 17 million tonnes of coal a year with a mine life of 33 years. Submissions close on December 3.

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Rural centres face resources paradox THE Coal Seam Gas industry has created a rural paradox of opportunity and angst, according to the man leading the new GasFields Commission Queensland.

Speaking at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) CSG Conference and Exhibition in Brisbane, the commission’s chairman, John Cotter, said in the past 30 years rural centres had declined as young people chose to leave the land.

But the booming CSG industry is turning that tide of departures so that rural centres, such as Chinchilla, Toowoomba and Roma, are being rejuvenated.

Mr Cotter said he saw regional Queensland regenerating with large populations of people - permanent and temporary moving back to regional areas. Many of them were from farming families that never thought they would work in their home town or region again after leaving years ago for jobs in the city or on the coast.

However, the possibilities that come with the discovery, extraction, transportation and sale of resources come at a cost. And that cost seems to be the worry brought by change.

“There is an enormous opportunity created out there but also an enormous amount of uncertainty,” he said.

“People in regional communities don’t know what the industry means to them.

“There are about 3000 landholder agreements that have been signed and a whole range of activities have progressed, but still an enormous amount of uncertainty remains.

“If we could achieve one thing, if we could eliminate the uncertainty, it would address so many of the co-existence issues.”

He told delegates that GasFields Commission Queensland is planning to reduce uncertainty through its power and function to gain and publish information.

The CSG industry must be cognisant of its impacts to regional Queensland, Mr Cotter said, particularly its impact on groundwater, agricultural enterprises and existing businesses through greater competition for staff.

“We cannot afford to let this opportunity for regional Queensland to pass us by, but we cannot let landholders and regional communities be walked on in the process,” the former head of farmer advocate AgForce said.

A key power provided to the commission by government is the ability to compel government agencies, CSG proponents, landholders and other parties involved with or impacted by the onshore gas industry to provide information.

Exploration rights to be more competitive THE Queensland Government is to change the way it allocates the rights to search for resources.

Minister for Natural Resources and Mines Andrew Cripps outlined the new exploration tender process at the 2012 Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) Coal Seam Gas Conference in Brisbane.

He said the new system would deliver better stewardship of resources, more certainty for industry and the community, and better economic returns for all Queenslanders.

“The new framework will involve both the controlled and competitive release of land for coal, petroleum and gas exploration and may include a cash bidding process that reflects the potential in-ground value of the resource for certain areas that are released,” Mr Cripps said.

“Through competitive cash bidding, companies will bid for the right to explore highly prospective land made available through tender and a preferred tenderer will be identified through a rigorous

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assessment process.

“Preferred tenderers will still have to meet the same stringent environmental and tenure approval requirements before exploration tenure is granted.”

The first round of petroleum and gas areas available under the new competitive cash bidding process are expected to be released for tender in the near future, delegates at the conference were told.

Non-cash land releases in greenfield and under-explored areas that promote Queensland’s attractiveness for junior explorers would continue.

“The move to a competitive process will maximise the benefits associated with these resources to all Queenslanders,” Mr Cripps said.

“It ensures the most appropriate explorer with a commitment to resource development secures available land for exploration.

“It will discourage exploration permits being acquired and warehoused simply so they can be marketed and on-sold to international buyers with little or no geological data to support the asking price.”

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Proceed with caution - possible job cuts ahead AN INDUSTRY survey of Queensland’s coal company chief executives shows that all coal producers expect to take the shears to operating costs because of the increase in coal royalties.

The Queensland Resources Council survey has shown that cost-cutting measures include reducing employee and contractor numbers, cutting rail and port costs and cuts to exploration expenditure.

QRC chief executive Michael Roche said the increased royalties came at a time when the industry was already under stress from the high Australian dollar, rising labour and materials costs and falling commodity prices.

“The combination of 30 per cent company income tax and the new royalty rates will mean Queensland will carry an effective taxation rate of 50 per cent on a typical coking coal operation,” Mr Roche told Shift Miner.

“This gives us the dubious honour of being the highest taxing coal jurisdiction globally.

“This effective royalty rate will increase each year if the coal royalty thresholds are not indexed.

“In the absence of coal royalty thresholds being indexed, the resultant bracket creep will mean that the government’s promise not to increase royalties again for 10 years cannot be delivered.”

QRC’s has made a submission to state government calling for indexation of coal royalty thresholds.

There is some hope it will be heeded, Mr Roche said.

“While the current difficulties for the industry are part of the normal cycle, albeit exacerbated by a stubbornly high Australian dollar, issues such as increasing royalties and threats of further federal taxation increases do nothing to encourage continued investment in Australia’s resources sector,” he said.

“While this sector intends to be here for the long term, governments - federal, state and local - can’t take for granted that resource companies can continue to absorb increasing costs and constantly changing goal posts.

“Our industry is already placed very high on the global cost curve.”

He said CEOs spoken to “were unequivocal” in saying that the royalty increase

QRC boss Michael Roche says coal producers expect to take the shears to operating costs because of the increase in coal royalties.

would considerably influence the economics of proposed new coal projects.

“In addition, our metalliferous and gas sector members expressed a concern that

they would be targeted next for a royalty increase as the Queensland Government continues its quest to bolster its revenue base,” he said.

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New Hope first target in protest week ENVIRONMENTALISTS have taken their week of action against resource companies to New Hope Coal’s Acland mine with two protesters arrested last Monday.

Friends of the Earth confirmed the duo, a 22-year-old Taringa man and a 29-year-old Sunny Bank Hills man, climbed a 30 metre high coal dump outside of Brisbane and dropped a protest banner at about 10am.

The pair stayed on top of the coal pile for about 30 minutes before coming down to be arrested.

Police charged them with trespass and they will appear in Oakey Magistrates Court on November 9.

Friends of the Earth claimed afterward the coal dump was just 1.5km from the the Darling Downs town of Jondaryan and

associated coal dust was contaminating the air and water of the locals.

Spokesman Drew Hutton from the Lock the Gate Alliance said it was only supposed to be a temporary dump but it is continuing to be used.

New Hope has also applied for an expansion of the Acland mine across good farm land and close to the towns of Jondaryan and Oakey.

“Our direct action will continue until the Queensland government introduces adequate protection for good farm land, underground water, important environmental areas and the health of local communities,”

Mr Hutton said after the protest.

The launch of the week of action in the northern New South Wales town of Murwillumbah on October 13 attracted about 3000 people many of whom wore yellow as a sign of support.

There was a corresponding rally in Sydney.

High profile singer Pete Murray performed at an associated concert at the picturesque Murwillumbah showgrounds. The northern rivers region of the state has been a focal point of anti-coal and natural gas opposition in past months.

Details of other protest action planned for the week have not been made available.

Overseas workers may answer Dysart retail shortage DYSART businesses may have to consider bringing in overseas workers to fill staffing gaps in retail.

John Cooks from the Dysart business and community group told Shift Miner this week that 457 Visas, used to bring in offshore workers temporarily, seems the only answer to what is a critical staffing shortage caused by the drain of labour to resources.

“There are no staff to be had,” he said in between helping staff and serving customers at his own business.

“We will probably have to look at 457 Visas - that’s how hard it is to find people (for roles).”

His business currently employs 10 people and next week is down to seven and there is no-one to fill the gaps.

Many businesses are getting by with senior students who work for their businesses before and after school, however, that has limitations depending on the business and the client base.

The ANZ bank has closed as it couldn’t retain staff, Mr Cooks said, leaving the town with just one bank (NAB) so that customers that want choice or to speak to someone faceto-face at a bank other than NAB have to travel.

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The town is just one of many resource centres where staff shortages are so acute businesses have to work around availability of staff rather than workers being told when shifts are and opening hours are.

Customers are normally patient with the situation, Mr Cooks said, as they know of the shortages but occasionally someone gets frustrated at having to wait for service or advice.

The answer is more workers and with noone keen to move from the coast or larger centres the solution seems to be overseas workers.

“Our business does quite well but we can’t get enough people to do the work,” Mr Cooks said.

Meanwhile, the heat has continued to ease in the town’s rent market.

Spiralling residential and commercial rents had hampered small business growth in the town over the last five years.

Mr Cooks said southern property investors bought into towns like Dysart and increased rents across the board, in some cases to $1500 per week.

Rents have now come back to a more palatable $500 but that’s still for a modest three bedroom cottage.

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However, Mr Caton said the closure of Gregory Crinum and Norwich Park mines earlier in the year has been more than offset by expansions in the coal fields.

“There are currently 63,000 people employed full time in the Queensland resources sector, and we have seen sustained increases in the export volumes of coal in Queensland,” he said.

“Norwich Park and Gregory Crinum are high cost BMA mines and they are near the end of their mining life.

“What is not often talked about in the media is that BMA are more than replacing the lost capacity [of these two mines] through their new greenfield projects.

“Currently Golding has more than 500 people back working on the Daunia project trying to get it to market.”

Mr Caton was also quick to point out that the “easy days” of the boom are probably over for mining companies and the Australian economy.

He says commodity booms have three

Boom not over but “easy days” are: Golding Contractors

CHIEF executive of Golding Contractors Geoff Caton has told more than 230 people at an industry conference in Gladstone that the “resources boom” is far from over.

Golding Contractors is heavily involved in both the CSG infrastructure develop-

ment going on in Gladstone, as well as in coal mining across Central Queensland.

The comments coincide with the official closure of the BMA Gregory Crinum mine, where more than 200 Golding employees recently lost their job.

phases: an escalating commodity price and demand phase, followed by a capital investment and expanding supply phase, and ending with a lower price but expanding volume phase, which he says, could run for many years yet.

“During the volume period the key driver has got to be productivity,” he said.

“Businesses need to position themselves to take advantage of opportunities in a more competitive environment, and we can’t just rely on ever increasing prices to cover ever increasing costs.

“The key lesson is that the nature of the boom changes over time and and future growth will be delivered through volume and productivity growth.

“Which is not to say we won’t have high prices again but the record prices we have seen in the past were heady days.”

The two-day Golding industry conference in Gladstone, which Mr Caton was speaking at, is an initiative of the Gladstone Engineering Alliance.

“The key lesson is that the nature of the boom changes over time and and future growth will be delivered through volume and productivity growth.”

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Pastoral corridor Bandanna’s missing link

NEGOTIATING access to 35 kilometres of prime agricultural land east of Springsure for a haul road is one of the last obstacles Bandanna Energy says it needs to overcome to become a coal exporter.

In an upbeat presentation in Emerald, the small miner confidently forecast that

it had the management, finance and coal assets needed to be exporting thermal coal by the end of 2014.

According to Bandanna, its first coal will be exported from its Springsure Creek Coal development, east of Springsure.

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a measured coal resource of 60 million tonnes and an inferred resource of 150 million tonnes.

Under the current feasibility study, Bandanna would mine the coal using two underground longwalls each producing around five million tonnes a year.

More than 700 people are expected to be required in the construction phase and around 250 in the operational phase.

Shares in Bandanna have been hovering around $0.30 from highs of over $2 a year ago as share market excitement about small coal miners has dwindled in the wake of the GFC. However, Bandanna’ managing director Michael Gray said they have one thing a lot of other smaller miners don’t.

“We have port capacity at Wiggins Island with four million tonnes per annum of port access and matching rail capacity on the Blackwater line,” he said.

“Wiggins Island is the only port being

built in Australia at the moment.

“And I am pleased to report that last week we completed our definitive feasibility study and in parallel with that we are working on our execution strategy.”

Despite these achievements, the biggest obstacle remaining for the company will be getting environmental approval for the project and compliance from local farmers.

The mine itself is right in the middle of country designated by the previous state Labor government as strategic cropping land.

Although the company does say it has “specific provision for transitional assessment” under the strategic cropping land legislation.

“We are confident that we can show that the environmental impacts can be managed and importantly the community impacts can be managed, and particularly the concerns that people have about our impact on cropping land,” Mr Gray said.

“We are confident that we can show that the environmental impacts can be managed and importantly the community impacts can be managed, and particularly the concerns that people have about our impact on cropping land.”

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Gregory miners redeployed GREGORY Crinum Mine has ceased production with BMA able to redeploy all employees who expressed an interest in moving to the company’s other mining sites.

BMA asset president Stephen Dumble told Shift Miner it was pleasing that individual arrangements for impacted employees were able to be settled prior to the mine ceasing production.

He said most redeployed employees had started the induction process for their new roles at other BMA operations.

The company provided voluntary redundancy to employees who expressed an interest.

Gregory Mine had 55 employees and 245 contractors from Golding.

A spokesperson from Golding told Shift Miner that the majority of their employees have been redeployed to various projects, including Gladstone, Gin Gin and Blackwater, while others had been offered redundancy.

However, the Wesfarmer’s Curragh Mine in Blackwater, where Golding was contracted, announced yesterday it would be cutting

Seen better days: machines in action at Gregory Crinum Mine.

The site has ceased production.

back on contract labour hire.

A BMA spokesperson said the decision to close the Gregory open cut mine was because it came at a high cost to the company.

The spokesperson said it had limited coal and a limited strip ratio which meant a lot of dirt was lost.

“The open cut mine is 30 years old and comes at a high cost to us. As long as we shut that down, we can make the rest of the complex competitive,” the company spokesperson said.

The announcement of the closure earlier this year angered the CFMEU, which told media BHP managed mines like “money factories” and shut them once the returns weren’t great enough.

“BHP management just see these mines as money factories. If an operation starts to lose any money, even if it’s over a shortterm issue, they will shut the mine down regardless of the impact on jobs and communities,” CFMEU district president Steve Smyth said.

“The open cut mine is 30 years old and comes at a high cost to us. As long as we shut that down, we can make the rest of the complex competitive.”

No number announced on contractors as Curragh cuts WESFARMER’S Curragh Mine at Blackwater is reducing its contract labour hire workers to cut production costs, but will not give numbers on how many workers will go.

The company has announced that the Bowen Basin mine will switch from a seven-day-a-week to five-day-a-week operation from mid-November.

A company spokesperson told Shift Miner that the changes were in response to international circumstances, including a substantial drop in coal prices, and would remain until further notice.

“We are responding to circumstances and we’re managing the business as best we can,” the spokesperson said.

This means contractors from companies including Theiss and Golding will be affected.

The spokesperson said he could not say how many contractors would lose their positions, but it would depend on their level of activity at the mine.

The company said the changes would not affect any of Wesfarmer’s full-time employees.

The mine will not be shut on weekends with the majority of the mobile fleet working on a five-shift roster spread over seven days.

The company will also shut down some mining activities for three weeks during the Christmas period.

The announcement comes after BMA announced it would close its Gregory coal mine, Xstrata Coal announcing it would cut 600 jobs across its operations in Queensland and New South Wales and Rio Tinto stating it may have to reduce its workforce as part of a review of the operations of its Clermont

Mine, which employs about 770 people and was opened only two years ago.

Wesfarmers general manager Craig McCabe told media the changes to the workforce are allowed under its enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).

“They were well discussed in the last 12 months in our EBA negotiations and the union were happy for those rosters to be in our appendix,” he said.

Wesfarmers recently expanded its Curragh operations but Mr McCabe says increased production is now unlikely.

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Rocky hasn’t missed the industrial boat - yet ROCKHAMPTON region has not missed the industrial boat with the development of an industrial area, despite the coal slowdown.

Capricorn Enterprise’s economic development manager, Neil Lethlean, told Shift Miner that there has been investment interest in the Gracemere industrial area, which lies just west of Rockhampton.

“There has been good external interest from industrialists, manufacturing and from transport looking to relocate,” he said.

The industrial area is targeting companies who service the mining industry through contracts and supply chains.

A slowdown in mining could be a good thing for the project because of the cost and availability of land, he said in an earlier interview.

The region failed to act over two decades ago, when development was flagged, and Mackay’s industrial area of Paget, and Gladstone benefited.

Now Gracemere is being marketed as a blank canvas ready for development and one that can avoid the problems that have plagued Paget, including long waits to get electricity, slow internet and parking problems.

The Rockhampton Regional Coun-

cil showed its commitment to the project several months ago, with Mayor Margaret Strelow stating she is determined to use $6 million in state government funds, approved for upgrades on Rockhampton’s river bank, to pay for the Gracemere groundworks.

Cr Strelow has also told a local newspaper she will put a case for $23 million through the Federal Government’s $6 billion Regional Infrastructure Fund money for mining communities.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard was walked through the park plans during her visit to the region just under a fortnight ago.

Since 2003, the Rockhampton Regional Council and the Queensland Government identified the Gracemere industrial area as the desirable location for higher order industries servicing Central Queensland.

Last year, the state government committed $50 million to start work on a road and rail overpass to open up the industrial precinct.

As a result, the council decided that rather than waiting another year for the new town plan to be gazetted and missing an opportunity, it would adopt a temporary local planning instrument (TLPI) to fasttrack the first stage of development.

Rockhampton hasn’t missed the industrial boat with Gracemere still of interest to large companies wanting new Central Queensland premises.

“There has been good external interest from industrialists, manufacturing and from transport looking to relocate.”

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Industry submission claims bullying entrenched in resources

“Bullying by unions (including officials, delegates and members) continues to remain a serious workplace issue, particularly in the resource and construction industries,” the AMMA said in its 23-page submission to a federal enquiry currently under way into bullying.

Just two of several examples of union bullying provided in the AMMA submission were unions victimising employees who supported a proposed enterprise bargaining agreement that was not endorsed by the union and unions victimising employees who did not support strike action that the union had endorsed.

But blaming unions is an easy solution.

A wide range of submissions received by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Employment inquiry that is examining the issue shows that people at all levels of organisations bully and are being bullied.

The inquiry is examining the nature, causes and extent of workplace bullying and is considering proposals to address bullying cultures and prevent their development in the workplace.

Inquiry chair Amanda Rishworth said the review is considering schemes to support individuals who have been affected by bullying in their return to work.

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“Bullying has serious consequences for individuals and the wider community. Every Australian has a right to feel safe and respected at work,” the South Australian Labor MP said.

The wide-ranging inquiry was convened after a young worker suicided because she was mercilessly bullied in the workplace.

The Productivity Commission estimates the total annual cost of workplace bullying in Australia at between $6 billion and $36 billion.

That covers lost productivity by workers who are dealing with bullying, those dishing it out and the time and staff it takes to sort out stressful bullying related issues.

That figure is conservative and just one of the pieces of bleak information that has been aired during the inquiry.

The enquiry is expected to push for sweeping changes to workplace culture in a bid to stamp out bullying.

All businesses should have an anti-bullying policy and protect any worker who speaks up about the issue. Those that do not run the risk of letting down the very people they should be protecting - their workers.

Have you been bullied? Shift Miner wants to hear from those that have been bullied or have views on how to manage bullying. Write to our editor at greg.sweetnam@shiftminer.com with your story.

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Fitzroy barge proposal innovates to ease impact THE UNESCO report into the Great Barrier Reef is generally scathing of Queensland’s port developments, but it has made one exception.

Fitzroy Terminal project manager Peter MacTaggart was quick to point out page 51 in the 99-page report.

It noted: “presentations from some coal export proponents regarding opportunities to develop less impacting techniques for transhipment of coal using barges and avoiding dredging activities (specifically the proposals at Wongai and Fitzroy involving Mitchell Ports)”.

“We have tried to think of every single control because this is the Great Barrier Reef,” Mr MacTaggart told the Golding Industry Conference in Gladstone last Thursday.

What makes it different to other port terminals is its use of transhipping - the use of shallow barges to get to deeper water.

“This is so ships don’t come to port, but stay out to sea, and it limits the need for dredging,” Mr MacTaggart said.

If approved, the $1.2 billion facility at Port Alma would transport coal from the existing Blackwater and Moura rail networks via a 1.3 kilometre rail spur.

It will include a rail unloading facility, an overland conveyor system, stockyards, a barge loading terminal in Raglan Creek adjacent to Port Alma and a rail spur connecting the site to the Central Queensland coal rail networks.

“We still need to do a little bit of dredging – 200,000 cubic metres of material. We would prefer not to, but we have to,” Mr MacTaggart said.

How it works is that shallow draft, covered barges travel through the port limits to a transhipment site.

The coal is transferred from the barge to the export ship via a transhipper – a catamaran-style vessel.

“We designed the Capricorn Cat so we can move barges on both sides.This means we can use four tugs and seven barges in one go, ” he said.

The export ship stays in open water.

“The Capricorn Cat pulls up to the ship and locks in. And the barges lock into the Capricorn Cat,” Mr MacTaggart added.

The project has looked at all environmental controls, including light, coal dust and even the collection of rain.

“We will stop operations when swells are over 1.5 metres, so we can operate for about 228 days of the year,” he said.

Keeping coal ships at bay by using barges is seen as having less impact on the environment and is being proposed at Fitzroy Terminal.

The project has lodged a draft environmental impact statement is ready for public comment at the beginning of next year.

If the project goes ahead, it will provide up to 380 jobs during the construction

phase, and up to 150 during the operational phase. The company will fill these locally first, and from the Rockhampton, Gracemere and Capricorn Coast Region.

Port Alma lies 50km south of Rockhampton.

“We still need to do a little bit of dredging – 200,000 cubic metres of material. We would prefer not to, but we have to.”

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How do you make a mixed family work?

MAKING a blended family work can be challenging at the best of times, but throw in shift work and equal time arrangements for children and it may seem an impossible task.

But it certainly isn’t and a family law firm tells Shift Miner what you can do to make it work.

Shift workers and equal time arrangements for children - what you can do to make it work.

Section 65DAA of the Family Law Act requires people to “consider” whether an equal or substantial and significant time arrangements is appropriate.

“Consider” does not mean that it happens automatically and in all the circumstances. You need to show the court the arrangement will work or is feasible and it is in the children’s best interests.

We will focus on some of the things you can do to improve your chances of being able to show the arrangement is feasible. You are

more likely to be successful where you:

• Live close to the other parent and ideally close to your child’s school. Your children would prefer being walking or riding distance rather than being a long car trip between homes.

• Have the capacity to make the arrangement work – ideally you should have consistent rostered days off for the children to spend time with you. Being reliable is important instead of changing the arrangement all the time because you have been called out to work. Rosters that are easy to follow can make it easier for the children to understand and plan in their own minds.

• Can communicate with the other parent – the better the communication between you and the other parent, the greater the chance of success. The court wants to see that parents can communicate about problems that come up about caring for your children and agree on solutions.

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• Ensure your ex has a copy of your roster. Avoid negotiating or arguing in front of your children. It will almost always be better for you to get past who is to blame for the argument and focus on the solution. Go to mediation if you cannot solve your dispute.

• Limit the impact of the arrangement on your children – make the transition between your house and the other parent’s house as seamless as possible. It helps if, for example, your house is set up so that the children can avoid carting too much gear (clothes, sports gear etc) between houses. It also helps if you can avoid having completely different rules and routines, so that there is no dramatic

change between yours and the other parent’s house, which can be disruptive and confusing to children.

Different arrangements based on the age and developmental needs of your children can be important.

In our region there are plenty of shift workers who have a very active and important role in caring for their children. Building a proposal around these four main factors identified above will help in showing your arrangement is feasible.

Get your own legal advice for further guidance or should you be a parent who has tried all of these things and you are not getting anywhere.

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Sexual healing YOU have been apart for a week or two and all you want to do is the horizontal tango while your partner prefers a quick cuddle and a lengthy sleep.

HEALING A

nd no matter how slowly your hand moves across the bed to your partner’s side, it is going to get a short, sharp slap when it reaches its final destination.

The Hart Centre, which has centres in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast, specialises in relationship counselling and says to aim for hassle-free ‘good enough’ sex.

Mismatched libidos are not just a problem of the fly-in, fly-out/drive-in, drive-out lifestyle, it is a common problem in households across Australia.

Then sit together and identify what each of your libido types are.

If this becomes an issue in your relationship, it is important to talk about it as a couple and not see it as a problem, says psychologist Angie Willcocks.

“It should not become about FIFO or a person in the relationship. It should not be about you - or your partner - but should be about differing libidos that you can tackle together.”

Instead, ask each other whether sex is important in your relationship or not. For most couples it is, so then ask each other what can you do about it, what do you like and what do you dislike.

“It varies,” says Ms Willcocks. “For some couples, it’s fine to go away for a weekend a couple of times a year. Some couples might want to try different sexual experiences and some want to make time for sex.”

There are, apparently, 10 different libido types, according to Australia’s foremost psychologist and sex therapist, Sandra Pertot.

side their long-term, supposedly monogamous relationship.

7. The stressed libido type of person feels under pressure to perform and constantly worries they are sexually inadequate in some way.

8. The disinterested libido type may be lifelong or acquired. Typically the disinterested lover says: “I wouldn’t care if I never had sex again.”

9. The detached libido type usually feels desire but is too preoccupied with other life issue to seek partnered sex, and may masturbate regularly. They may develop from a stressed libido type.

10. The compulsive libido type has one main sexual object or ritual that triggers sexual arousal.

Once you have identified what each of your libido types are, you can ask each other questions and take steps to reach a compromise.

The Hart Centre outlines them: 1. The sensual libido type of lover values emotional connection above sexual performance.

2. The erotic libido type believes sex should be intense, varied and passionate at least some of the time.

3. The dependent libido type needs sex to cope with life on at least a daily basis.

4. The reactive libido type gets more satisfaction from pleasing their partner during sex.

5. The entitled libido type assumes it is their right to get what they want in their sexual relationship.

6. The addictive libido type of lover finds it difficult to resist the lure of sex out-

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Contractors are concerned (Culture of fear, P1 SM147) With regards to the contractors being laid off, I was working at Blair Athol recently when I got laid off.

But the weird and totally unfair part was that they were putting a new person on every week right up to the very same day that I was told I was no longer required and there excuse was they had too many workers.

We were at our pre-start morning meeting when the new guy was introduced, then 10 minutes later I got the tap on the shoulder.

Anonymous These big mining wages are attracting a lot of young men these days, so of course the ability to hire a new young bloke everyday is going to influence the outcome of other employees.

If a man 20 years younger can do the job for the same price, why not? I say there should be action taken to strengthen the binding of contracts between miners and the bosses.

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Prospect of more dredging concerns a Gladstone resident (Gladstone to get another shipping channel , P2 SM147) When is enough enough? I have lived in Gladstone for more than 20 years and reckon it is one of the best kept secrets in Queensland. I worked in industry, and educated my kids with the money I got from it, but no one can tell me the dredging and industry going on in the harbour won’t change it. Les, Barney Point

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FROM THE EDITOR IT’S an irony of the workplace that the entity that prides itself on protecting the worker - the union - has been accused of bullying during a federal inquiry into the destructive practice.

I can hear those that engage in the practice now as they read the front page story defining such behaviour as simply robust expression of their rights and views. Well what about the rights and views of the person or persons being bullied?

There is no doubt bullying is rife in regional workplaces.

The question is what do we do about it as individuals and organisations?

Some will do nothing, particularly those who are not the victims or the perpetrators as they just don’t want to be involved, while some will do all in their power to make changes. For their trouble a whistleblower will probably be singled out themselves. The people they are seeking to protect may even turn on them for fear of reprisals from the bullies. No-one likes a troublemaker, no matter what their intentions.

The Productivity Commission estimates the total annual cost of workplace bullying in Australia

at between $6 billion and $36 billion. That’s a conservative estimate.

A human resources expert that addressed a CEO conference in Brisbane last year said that bullying would be this working generation’s RSI. Yes, you couldn’t see it but it did exist and would end the working life of people and maybe even remove their will to get out of bed every day. But, the speaker said, it is real and employers that choose to ignore it, or not look for the signs of it, will spend millions of dollars because of it in years to come because of their inaction and ignorance. Not words that are normally used to describe CEOs. The room was silent with disbelief.

So what can you do about bullying? It’s a simple answer. If you know of it speak up. If you’re doing it, stop. Get help. Ask your company what its antibullying policy is? Do you have one?

As the current inquiry has clearly shown doing nothing about bullying is not worth the human cost nor the lost productivity it brings.

Greg Sweetnam Comment or SMS 0428 154 653

The musings of a CQ miner...

Listen to me. Hard hats for miners. Are you kidding?

Safety Department - fix these issues:

I tell you the risk of not wearing a big broad brimmed sun hat. Skin cancer. Most Queensland miners who don’t spend a 12-hour shift in front of a computer in an 18°C office are exposed to a lot of sun damage.

1. Beanies or pommy hats are not allowed under hard hats.

Really nice in the winter during the predawn chill of night shift. Why, when a fitter is rebuilding a water cart sprayer on a bench at 3am in 2°C temperatures, must he wear a hard hat and not a beanie?

Queensland leads the world in skin cancer. The add-on sun hat brim for hard hats is as handy as a Safety Department guru on a track frame change out job (ie pointless and looks silly). A few forward-thinking mining companies have now realised they don’t need helmet-style hard hats in onsite maintenance workshops. Any fitter who has ever worked on a machine in a workshop removes his helmet before getting under it. The bump cap style hat is a pretty good option in the workshop as it gives good protection against bumping your head and is easy to work with. The main reason sites use hard hat helmets is because... um....er...um... because they always have.

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2. Why, when on a digger shutdown in 40°C heat, must a fitter wear a hard hat? Bullshit, he should be wearing a sombrero, Seùor! He is at a huge risk of skin cancer.

3. Sun hats. Get us sun hats and let us wear them!

School kids can’t play outside without a hat; I congratulate the Education Department. Well done.

Sunscreen is no good for a fitter after the first re-application due to the dust, diesel, grease, sweat and other lovely stuff stuck to his skin. I’m telling you this info because I get

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sunburnt even though I wear the useless sun brim on my useless helmet and I apply sunscreen to my dirty skin daily .

to follow the rules instead of listening to the rank-and-file and having a go at fixing things that require change.

Would a safety guru please do this experiment. Tape a milk crate (hard hat) to your soft head then tape an ice cream lid (useless sun brim) to the milk crate, apply one coat of sunscreen, one coat of fine dust, two tablespoons of diesel and a half a cup of grease to your face. Now park your car in the middle of a dirt paddock at 12 noon-ish and remove the front right-hand side wheel and put it back on. You may get sunburnt.

Then again, maybe I should just throw on a sombrero and go lie in the shade with my tequila.

Maybe the Safety Department could write a 23,456,024 word SOP on hard hats, or run a hard hat tool box meeting, or write me up for kicking my hard hat over the bund and donning an akubra. The general contempt for the Safety Department is due to issues like this and the willingness

LET US DAMN WELL WEAR SUN HATS. Redmond the sunburnt Ranga.

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Redmond was born in a cross-fire hurricane and now resides in Queensland. Former Golden Glove champ turned champion shearer, his shearing career was cut short when he entered the adult film industry and made 3467 films in three months. He now enjoys semi-retirement and lives happily on his 100,000 acre property with his seven wives. He has received the annual Golden Pen award from the Writer’s Guild four years in a row in the Truth Telling category...

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IN THE UNITED KINGDOM - Ladies, what do you desire in a man?

Money, good looks, a sense of humour or an extensive Cabbage Patch Kids doll collection?

Dan Knowlton, 41, is single and he owns a collection of more than 600 cute (creepy), squash-faced Cabbage Patch Kids dolls.

Sounds like Knowlton’s apartment is a real babe lair with three rooms taken up by his “kids”.

“My Cabbage Patch Kids are my children,” Knowlton told the Daily Mail.

“They’re easier to cope with. They have a few hand-me-down clothes from my nieces, and I’ve even made a few outfits for them over the years.”

At least Knowlton is not alone in his Cabbage Patch Kid love (lunacy); there are other like-minded collectors out there like Joe and Pat Prosey.

The Prosey’s are the proud “parents” of 5000 Cabbage Patch Kids and one human daughter.

The couple’s dolls live in a 6000 square foot home while the Proseys themselves live in a 1000 square foot mobile home, according to Anderson Live.

“I know they care about me and they love their kids and I think that’s great, but I always tried to distance myself,” the couple’s daughter, Vikki said.

“He (Kevin, her parents’ prized Cab-

If your parents collected over 5000 Cabbage Patch Kids, you too may be trying to distance yourself from them.

bage Patch Kid) got his pictures on the Walk of Fame... I just kept walking the other way like I didn’t know them.”

AGAIN IN THE UK - It was a case of a bad day at the office for a gang of thieves who tried to flog a Range Rover from a former light welterweight world champion.

Boxing champ Amir Kahn and his brother Haroon were jumped by an armed group of about six men in Birmingham, England.

The gang reportedly tried to block Kahn’s SUV with their vehicle and then fleece his, but instead it was them that got the flogging.

The Sun reported that the only thug to try and land a punch on Kahn “got a face full of fist”.

“One slapped Amir and clipped him on the lip, but Amir pulled back and knocked him out cold,” a witness told the site.

“Then five of them went for Amir and Haroon — but they stood their ground and these guys got dropped one by one.”

Allegedly the Kahns’ only injury was a smashed rear window to their vehicle.

IN THE UNITED STATES - A Florida man has died after winning a python in a bug-eating contest that saw him consume dozens of cockroaches, bugs and worms.

Well at least he went out a winner!

Edward Archbold won a female ivory ball python after eating his way to victory at the ‘Bugs for Balls’ contest at the Ben Seigel Reptile shop in Deerfield Beach in Florida.

NBC Miami reported that shortly after his win, the 32-year-old threw up and collapsed in the front of the store.

While an autopsy report is still pending and the exact cause of Mr Archbold’s death is unknown, police said none of the other contestants fell ill.

The pet store confirmed on its Facebook page that the python is being kept in Edward’s name and will be given to his estate.

e h t k n a Fr Tank’s

“Streakin” good love advice

Dear Frank, My girlfriend seems to think that because she watches Grey’s Anatomy it somehow qualifies her to diagnose and treat any medical problem I may have. At first I didn’t mind so much, but it’s starting to get out of hand. The other week I grazed my elbow and she tried to take me to the emergency room to get a tetanus shot.

How can I get her to cut out the amateur diagnosis without hurting her feelings?

Jeff.

Well, Jeff, a lot of people don’t know this, but many moons ago I was actually qualified as a medical doctor.

Unfortunately my licence was revoked after I sewed two homeless guys together to serve drinks at my Halloween party.

Apparently the head of surgery at the hospital I worked at didn’t see the theatrical value in ‘conjoined hobo bartenders’… Also once they looked into my credentials more closely they discovered that the ‘Tijuana Institute for Medical Research’ is actually a cantina where ailing donkeys are ground up for taco meat.

Nevertheless, there is nothing more annoying than when a woman attempts to offer you advice on a subject she knows nothing about.

Sensible Susan Jeff, Perhaps instead of getting your girlfriend to cut out her amateur diagnosis, you could encourage her to learn more.

I once took a girl golfing with me and she was constantly trying to offer me tips on how to improve my swing and putt with more accuracy.

By the 11th hole I was so annoyed I pushed her into a sand trap and drove off without her.

I had a far better time completing the round on my own, but I must admit it did ruin any chance I had of playing the ‘19th hole’ with her — if you know what I mean.

In your case, Jeff, it is the entertainment industry that has created the problem.

Unfortunately television has created unrealistic expectations for the modern woman, allowing them to believe they can accurately diagnose medical problems that haven’t arisen out of laundry or kitchen mishaps.

You might like to purchase some DVDs of television shows that aired during the 50s and 60s. These should show women in a more traditional role and push your girlfriend in the direction of baking pies and fetching your pipe and slippers.

If she’s been too indoctrinated by shows like Grey’s Anatomy you might be better of giving her a taste of her own medicine, if you’ll pardon the pun.

Take an interest in a home improvement reality show and tell your girlfriend you’re planning on doing some ‘renovations’.

Put a few holes in the wall with a sledge hammer, crack some tiles, and maybe even ruin the paint work in a room or two.

Your girlfriend will be so mad she’ll more than likely throw the TV out the window — problem solved!

Frank.

She obviously has an interest in health and medicine, so perhaps you could encourage her to undertake some study at TAFE or University?

This little push could give her the motivation she needs to formalise her hobby.

The upshot of that might be that with plenty of diagnoses to make during class, she’ll be less focused on treating your medical problems.

Susan.

If you have a question for Frank and Susan Email Us at: franksusan.shiftminer@gmail.com

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CARAVAN AND CAR

CAR FOR SALE 2008 TOYOTA AVENSIS VERSO 68000 Ks, 4 doors 7 seats, 4 cyl. A1 condition. New tyres. Complied 2009 Rear nudge-bar. Full logs. All Toyota serviced. Always kept undercover. With 7 seats there’s plenty of space for the whole family. $21,900 NEG Phone : 0413 913 042 CAR FOR SALE 2010 TOYOTA HILUX Mine Spec, BMA Thiess Mac &RDO &HUWL¿HG 1HZ Maxxis Iron Mud Tires, ADB Bull Bar, Lightforce Driving Light,Twin Battery, Snorkle, Iron-Man Lift Kit, Mine Radio x 2, UHF, 135 Litre Fuel Tank, Oconners Tray, Toolboxes, Fire Ext 1st Aid MSDS. $ 46 500 Phone: 0421 000 789

FOR SALE 2010 SOUTHERN CROSS 5TH WHEELER 8mtrs,complete with all upgrades.

FORD F250 V8 deisel w/ gas injection. tow vehicle.

Full details on request.Will pass any inspection.

Phone: 07 4162 5730

BOAT FOR SALE 2004 PowerCat 2600 Sports Cabriolet. Twin 115hp Yamaha 4 stroke engines.

Sleeps 4, Toilet, Shower.

Road registered tandem trailer. Always maintained and kept in a shed. All safety gear. Excellent condition. Registered until September 2013.

Reduced to $108,000 Very Negotiable Phone: 0409 630 311 CAR FOR SALE

LAMPS FOR SALE GENUINE PROTECTOR ECCLES MINING LAMPS

FORD MUSTANG CONVERTABLE 67

Not Reproduction

302 V8 Auto. Left Hand

Varying models and condition in full size working lamps.

Drive, Disc Brakes.

Excellent Condition,

Miniature ornamental lamps available.

Fully Restored

Phone : 07 4933 6310

Phone: 07 4933 7305

CAMPER AND CAR FOR SALE Compass slide-on camper on Ford F250 ute.Camper sleeps 2 plus makeup 3rd.

Range of accessories incl.

F250XL 2001, 4.2L diesel, 190,000km, strengthened springs, UHF, compressor.

Whole unit $45,000 ono. Camper only $11,000 ono.

CARAVAN AND CAR FOR SALE F250 + SIERRA 5TH WHEELER 30ft, both 2006, both reg Oct 12, one bdrm unit on wheels, rear kitchen, q/bed,2 TVs,solar, gen 2.4kva, has much more $145,000 neg

Phone: 0448 874 000

Phone: 0407 913 914

Phone: 0413 317 292

BUSINESS FOR SALE SACK THE BOSS AND EARN REAL $ Dry Ice blasting/cleaning equipment including website. dry ice unit only 60hrs! Kaeser air compressor only107hrs!

Genuine reason for sale. cost $96000. can be relocated anywhere! $60,000 ono Phone: 0410 091 105

CAR FOR SALE 2006 DODGE RAM 3500 SLT Lonestar Edition Heavy Duty 5.9L Cummins Turbo Diesel Allison auto trans. Wood grain inserts 5th wheel hitch, tow bar 4 door dual cab Dula Wheels 104000klms $79,000 ono Phone: 0432 429 264

BOAT FOR SALE SAILING CATAMARAN 12.6m Light Cruiser.

Sleeps 3.Auxiliary motor,dinghy and outboard.

Located at Yeppoon.

Call for full inventory and inspection. $150,000

HOUSE/LAND FOR SALE NORTH OF YEPPOON 40ha.Open country, House,Dam,Bore(1100gl/ ph)Submersible pump, Yards &ramp Excellent garden & views.50ks nth of Yeppoon Turnoff. 1.3ks off highway,bitumen road.

School buses from Highway $595,000 ono Phone: 07 4937 3564 HOUSE FOR SALE Coolum Beach 2 bed, 2 bath aptmt for sale with ocean views, fully furnished, air con, pool and heated spa.

Includes huge double GRRU IULGJH ÀDW VFUHHQ WY with surround sound plus satellite. Walking distance to Coolum Beach $330.000 ono Phone: 0411 567 244 UNIT FOR SALE MACKAY The solution to accommodation in Mackay. Stay a few days, earn income while you’re away. 1 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom Beachfront Resort living, pool and restaurant onsite.

For More Info Call: Phone: 0428 227 623

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HOUSE FOR SALE MACLEAY ISLAND Your own private resort Absolute waterfront home Retire or use as a getaway www.realestate.com. au/property-house-qldeay+island-111073031 Phone: 1300 091 773 HOUSE FOR SALE Gracemere acreage and residence. Large well appointed 5 bedroom home on 10 acres.

Stables, yards, shed, bore. 3 km from new

$48,000

BUSINESS FOR SALE 2 X PRIME MOVERS With large capacity cranes, 4 Trailers, Bundy based, Soild work contacts, Carrying house frames and trussestoGladstone, Rocky,Mackayand Central Highlands.established 1981 T\O approx $380,000 Call for more info and pics Asking $350,000 WIWO Phone: 0408 988 866 LAND FOR SALE YEPPOON Acreage Living, City Conveniences!

4000 sqm North facing, corner premium block, 5 minutes from CBD, schools, transport.

Plenty of space for shed, pool, kids to play. $300,000 Phone: 0409 391 254 LAND FOR SALE BURNETT RIVER FRONTAGE 100acres, 600m of river frontage, 10meg water allocation, ex dairy farm, power at front of block, cleared, dam, cattle yards, 20mins to Gin Gin – 25 mins to Childers

shopping centre.

$290K neg.

$700,000

Phone: 0439 861 946

BUSINESS FOR SALE INVESTMENT FREEHOLD HOTEL MOTEL One hour from Bundaberg 9 year lease with experienced tenant returning $57,200 p.yr + annual CPI increases. *HW WRJHWKHU D V\QGLFDWH RQ GHSRVLW ÂżQDQFH $540,000 Phone: 07 4151 4500 BUSINESS FOR SALE Looking for an investment that drives itself?

Open Taxi Licence for sale in Rockhampton Currently leased @ $385 inc gst/week Includes shares in Rockhampton Cab Company Perfect sideline income $320,000 neg Phone: 0407 373 664 CAR FOR SALE 2008 H3 HUMMER Luxury 6.2lt V8 LS3. Auto transmission. Full leather, BOSE sound, 22� American racing rims.Only known H3 V8 in Australia. Collector’s item. 27000kms. Excellent condition. Very classy vehicle with performance to match. $73,000 ono Phone: 0427 189 834 PLOUGH FOR SALE Grizzly S24 plough very good condition new bearings discs about 1/2 worn located near rocky. $17000 plus gst ono.

Phone 0429 948 198 HOUSE/LAND FOR SALE MOUNT PERRY � Main Top� Best most usable 40 acres in town. *RRG ODUJH OHYHO ÀDWV great mountain veiws, hay shed, machinery shed, dam, House requires work. Power to house.

Plenty of feed, Potential to work 7 on 7 off roster at mount Rawdon Gold mine. $235,000 Phone: 0488 079 675 LAND FOR SALE PROSERPINE Rural land. 15 min cbd proserpine. 2x200 acre lots. good grazing land and house sites will sell seperatly POA $520,000 the pair Phone: 0447 031 588

Phone: 07 4933 3106 HOUSE FOR SALE GRACEMERE, Immaculate 4BR home BIR. 18 solar panels. Fully insulated & A/C. Ceiling fans. 2 bathrooms. 2 Toilets.

Double lock-up garage.

Stainless steel kitchen appliances. Spacious open plan kitchen, dining & lounge. Potential rental return above $22 000p/a. $429,000 Phone: 0418 796 074

UNIT FOR SALE 100sqm renovated open plan unit with a HUGE

HOUSE FOR SALE YEPPOON

Great investment BETTER

New 4 bedroom 2 bathroom brick home.

Aircon in main bedroom & Media room. Fans throughout.

Double garage elec roller doors. Security screens.

lifestyle! More info/

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balcony overlooking the Sunshine Coast’s best point break!! Austar, gym, 150m lagoon pool.

pics avail. Be Quick!

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Black Keys at No 4 THIS now unstoppable band, on the cusp of the pop scene, is unknown to many as gritty blues monkeys.

The Black Keys are now widely known for their chart topping album, El Camino (2011).

But almost a decade ago the dynamic duo from Ohio, USA, burst onto the underground music radar in a flurry of soulful lyrics, driving beats and filthy guitar mastery.

In 2002 they released their debut album The Big Come Up. The Black Key’s sound slowly developed over time into a more profitable formula that can be marketed internationally.

Nevertheless the band continues to produce some of the most authentic music in the industry today.

A majority of the The Black Key’s fan base that came after the release of El Camino know little of the band’s previous work. However, the band’s first album far surpases any other efforts to date. This album is undeniably one of the greatest albums ever made and weighs in at number four in my 10 greatest albums of all time.

The Big Come Up is raw. From start to finish this album is an overload of pure music. It is by no means polished: no special effects, no overdubbing, just music. The band is made up of Patrick Carney on drums, and Dan Auerbach on guitar, bass and vocals. They are two of the most talented musicians on the planet and the simple fact these two produced this record themselves is testament to their skill.

The album was recorded in Carney’s basement and it can be heard in the quality of the recording, which sounds as though it were made decades ago.This only emphasises Dan’s and Pat’s gift. To make such a perfect album on a shoestring budget in the basement of your own home is a meteoric feat. Yes, Carney sometimes plays out of time and yes, sometimes Dan Auerbach accidentally hits an open string that he shouldn’t.

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But no band of the Noughties has paralleled the majestic efforts of previous decades like The Black Key’s. Dan Auerbach covered Junior Kimbrough multiple times through his still prospering career. In 2006 the duo released the album Chulahoma: The Sounds Of Junior Kimbrough, which featured a message on Dan’s answering machine from Junior’s widow wife praising their take on Junior’s music. In The Big Come Up Dan plays Junior’s “Do The Rump”. Only, “The Rump” is not a skiffling, head bobbing jam but rather a head-banging, gritty, rocking ruckus.

The Big Come Up is one of the greatest albums of all time. From Dan’s soulful voice, gritty riffs and crisp blues licks to Patrick’s thrashing beats and skillful music producing, this album is number four on my list.

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Bait shop Banter YEPPOON THE mac are on the attack, says Bob from Capricorn Coast Sport & Hobby Centre.

A bit of rough weather and the weekend falling reef closure have somewhat hampered the boats, but with the water looking nice and blue and the wind on the fall the bay should resume as a happy mac hunting ground.

Bob reckons there are good flathead and grunter around the creeks.

The barra are moving too and there have been plenty of good catches in Coorooman and Corio.

The flotillas of tinnies flooding the Fitzroy would seem to indicate it is the season to be merry with game on for barra.

And the crabbing season that never said die is still throwing up catches with Bob reporting quite a few being pulled up at Corio.

GLADSTONE Corey from Pat’s Tackle World has been getting out amongst some barra action and has been having plenty of fun up the Boyne.

While only using small lures and not

pulling in the big guns, he reckons some lads next door were hauling in metre-tometre and a half bodies.

The Calliope River has also been turning up some really good, clean saltwater barra as well as a lot of jack.

Corey says he has heard the Anabranch is particularly firing, with loads of big jacks with a 62cm report the biggest he has heard of.

“We have been selling lots of a new soft plastic called Zerek prawn’s and they seem to be having a lot of success,” said Corey.

Out front you can pick up red emperor and nannygai but access of late has been limited by the reef closure and choppy conditions.

Catch your usual whiting and flathead off Tannum Sands beach.

MACKAY Barra are well and truly the big news story around Mackay according to Rob at Tackle World Mackay.

Rob reckons barra over the one metre mark are being caught in the Kinchant Dam and the Pioneer River has also been prolific.

Offshore the spanish mackerel are in good

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Now that’s a flaming big fish!

Stephen McDonald did not want his mate Donnie Isaac’s moment with a 40.5kg black jewfish to go unrecognised.

Well how does front page grab you?

According to Mr McDonald, who is a miner along with Mr Isaac, the big boy was caught on “a 80lb braid to 100lb mono leader with a three gang of size 6 hooks”.

“It took around 35 minutes to land the fish with a lot of

numbers and also lots of juvenile marlin.

“It’s the biggest season in a long time for juvenile marlin,” says Rob. Rob recommends going after Spanish mac with trolling garfish and gear and to troll around the current lines, and perhaps you could very well bag a marlin while you are at it.

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“We thought he had hooked a shark at first but was over the moon and amazed when we got to see it for the first time. The jewfish was tempted by a garfish presented on gang hooks.

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East Coast Low of NSW affects southern Queensland Week 1 - An east coast low around the 11th Oct caused unseasonal snow for SA/TAS/VIC/NSW which reached the Granite Belt. Floods were recorded on the south coast of NSW and storms reached Stanthorpe/Warwick and the Darling Downs/Warrego with hail/sleet/snow. A trough caused widespread cloud for the Coalfields. This assisted in developing a few thundery spring showers in the southern Coalfields. Some 24hr rainfall totals (mm) of note: Cockatoo 21, Thangool 19, Tarana Crossing 18, Moura 15, Woodleigh 14, Taroom 13, Rannes 11, Riley’s Crossing 8, Rolleston 7, Capella 4, Dysart 2. Then minimum temperatures fell from 18-19C by 10-15 degrees to 4.3C Thangool and 2.9C Clermont on Sat. 13th Oct. This caused pockets of frost around the higher areas of the southern Coalfields. Now a dramatic warming as maximum temperatures soar to 36-37C. The magic 40C (a direct sun temp of 60C!!) is a chance west of Sapphire. Then spring thundery showers late Tue could bring slight relief. The heat returns over the weekend. But some late afternoon relief with thundery showers; one good storm could give someone a good downpour.

Boaties! The fresh NNE’ly afternoon sea breezes forming rapidly after midday; caught more unwary small boat people out with a few rescues last week. The pattern

continues. Mon: Light WNW (mist??) close inshore tending N/NW 8-12 morning then rapidly gusty 20-25 knots NNE south of Sarina by lunch. Tue: Rapid SSE 15-20 gusting 27 knots Wed: SE 20-15 tending ESE 17-12 ave possibly lighter ESE/ENE inshore late. Thr: W 3-5 inshore early tending E/NE 10-14 avo. And NNW/NNE 8-13 offshore.

Fri: Similar with NNE afternoon sea breeze 16-21 knots and gusting. Very late evening SE’ly in far south. Sat: SE 14-19 in south ENE 10-15 Whitsundays. An isolated storm gusting 30-40 knots late in the south. Sun: ESE 18-13 with early showers mainly south tending ENE 8-12 late.

Week 2 - The SOI continues to hover around the +2. Still giving hope of a neutral summer. Any lower makes El Nino a threat. If a large high persists in the Tasman then onshore easterlies could relieve the stifling conditions with cloudy conditions and some shower activity early in the week.

Then gradually warmer as the long hot summer seems to be starting. Be prepared for bush fires!!!

Marine Lovers! The spring will cause a couple of odd unpredictable wind situations. Mon : ESE’ly 16-12 tending ENE avo. Chance of an early shower. Tue-Thr: ESE 16-13 and slightly stronger in the Whitsundays. Fri: ESE 15-10 tending ENE avo. Sat/Sun: Winds ease. ENE/NE. Watch for afternoon NNE 20-25 knot sea breezes.

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Bag a bargain: farm machinery to antiques WHAT began as one Central Queensland couple’s shed clearout is now turning into a huge auction with items ranging from farm machinery through to antiques.

A percentage of proceeds will be donated to the RACQ Capricorn Helicopter Rescue Service. The event is being held at Prior Park Pastoral, which lies 60km south of Rockhampton, from 9am November 3.

“A couple of neighbours and I got together and decided to clear out the excess machinery,” said organiser, Anne Stünzner, who owns Prior Park Pastoral with her husband Gordon.

Hundreds of items will be up for grabs, including a trackmarshall dozer with a 16 foot stick rake, a John Deer tractor, a Fiat Allis loader, several trucks, two prime movers, three utes and a couple of tipping drays.

“We have things there that haven’t been used for a while. One of the drays hasn’t been used since WWII — we bought a grader since then!” Mrs Stünzner said.

For punters with an interest items from yesteryear, there is a sulky and a number of

other horse-drawn vehicles, cross cut saws, old hand tools and furniture to name a few.

Mrs Stünzner said many items are from lost trades that need to go to homes where they will be loved and looked after.

She also wants to restore some of the old buildings that stored the machinery. However, husband Gordon Stünzner said there was also another reason.

“I couldn’t see the floor of the shed. My wife wouldn’t let me built a new shed, so she said we had to have a clean out,” he said.

“My husband comes from a long line of hoarders,” Mrs Stünzner responded.

Five generations of them, in fact, with the first hoarder being Mr Stünzner’s great, great grandfather Thomas Creed, who moved into the district in the 1870s.

Another great, great grandson, John Bowkett, who lives next door at “Cecilwood”, is also part of the clearing out sale.

For more information and photos of items, visit Prior Park Pastoral on Facebookonwww.facebook.com/pages/PriorPark-Pastoral/160493080756096

MOVIE REVIEW

BY JUSTIN CARLOS

Creature feature more than a little fishy EVER since Jaws terrified audiences 40-odd years ago there’s been a sporadic release of ‘creature features’ looking to cash in on every beach-goer’s nightmare — the shark.

Set right here in Australia, Bait is the latest in a long line of contenders looking to knock Jaws off its perch as king of the ‘great white shark’ flicks.

The film follows a group of people shopping at their local grocery store when a freak tsunami hits, washing two great whites into the shopping centre.

The group of hapless survivors are forced to work together to escape the flooded store and avoid becoming fish food in the process.

Although this premise might sound slightly ridiculous, it’s probably the best thing Bait has going for it.

Despite the fact the film is set in Australia and features a number of Australian actors — most notably Julian McMahon, Lincoln Lewis (Wally’s son) and Rockhampton’s own Alex Russell — most of the characters adopt bizarre American accents.

As puzzling and annoying as these faux American accents are, they’re nothing compared to the outrageously over-the-top Australian accent adopted

by Dan Wyllie.

If you can look past the positively woeful acting, fans of shark-based creature features like Deep Blue Sea, Jaws and Open Water are likely to get a kick out of Bait.

The action sequences are well done and admittedly the sharks do look quite realistic and terrifying.

Fans of horror movies will also appreciate the gore factor in the film, as the sharks manage to pick off more than their fair share of survivors.

Bait certainly won’t be going down in the annals of cinema history alongside heavyweights like Jaws, but some people may argue that it falls into the ‘so bad it’s good’ category, with plenty of unintentional humour and outrageous death scenes.

If you’re a die-hard creature feature fan then Bait is worth a watch, however it’s almost a guarantee that the shoddy acting will have you rooting for the shark.

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SPORT

148th EDITION. 2012

Miners still playing for Panda Old dogs and new tricks IT IS likely to be hot, the ground hard and the game fair dinkum, according to organisers of the third Andrew “Panda” Curtis charity rugby league match to be played in Blackwater next month.

Panda Curtis was born, bred and employed in Blackwater for many years and was a major contributor to rugby league and the broader mining community during that time.

However he died in 2008 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, leaving behind a wife and two children.

At the time his friends in the mining community came up with the idea to hold a charity rugby league game between workers at Curragh mine and those employed by BMA with the intention to help cover the costs of his treatment.

But with more than 3000 people turning out for the game, they ended up raising enough money to set up a trust fund for his family.

The next year his widow Linda graciously said the money could be better spent elsewhere and now the game raises much needed money for important local issues.

So while the game is all about charity, organiser Hayley Daniels said there won’t be too much charity on the park.

“Last year the money went to the local P&C committee’s to buy some much-needed resources like electronic whiteboards and other teaching things they required,” she said.

“This year we are expecting over 1000 people and the money raised will go toward repairing one of the local kids parks that is currently condemned.”

“But it is a fully fledged rugby league game and both the BMA Panda Bears and the Curragh Coal miners will be taking it seriously.”

“To keep tabs on it we are flying in NRL referee Matt Cecchien, and there has been talk of the Central Highlands Hotel Group bringing in some NRL players on the sly.”

BMA have won the last two games and said it will be aiming for three. There are also Junior Rugby League games being played, and full bar and BBQ facilities for spectators.

Gates open 4pm Saturday, November 3, at the Blackwater Crushers oval in Blackwater.

SIXTY-four-year-old Rockhampton skier Ross Angel will prove you can teach old dogs new tricks at Bedford weir this weekend.

The experienced water skier will compete in round two of the CQ water Skiing competition on the Mackenzie river near Blackwater.

There will be a three-event slalom and trick-skiing competition, and organiser Peter Darby from Water Ski Queensland said anyone can get involved.

“The event will cover skiers of all abilities, right through from people who can just ski to accomplished skiers.”

“One of the skiers to watch is Rock-

hampton skier Harrison Harber, who last year competed and qualified in the U16 national titles. He is one of the best skiers around here.”

“Blackwater’s Gabe Church will also be competing , and I am hoping a few other miners put their hands up.”

The competition starts at 8am this Saturday and interested skiers can join in on the day or contact skiing Queensland before the event.

Camping, barbeque and washing facilities are available. Skiers not competing can also access the river, but they will have to move upstream to ski. For details call Peter on 0459 022 377.

Bauhinia with a brighter future HORSE enthusiasts in Central Queensland can look forward to more competition in Bauhinia after the small community received $20,000 to upgrade facilities at their sporting grounds.

The upgrade will allow the Bauhinia Sporting Association to install lights in the various sports areas and host bigger Polocrosse, Hack and Pony club events at the complex.

The money was donated by gas company Santos, who is developing one of the CSG projects in Gladstone.

Bauhinia is one of the towns that the Santos LNG pipeline from the Surat basin will travel through on it’s way to Gladstone.

Bauhinia Sports Association president Murray Smith said the community is incredibly grateful.

“After years of insufficient supply, the upgrade [to our lights] will now be possible, creating a great boon to all who use the grounds,” Mr Smith said.

Santos GLNG social performance manager John Phalen said the Bauhinia sports ground was an obvious candidate for funding.

“We recognise that our project will have a noticeable presence in the Bauhinia community,” Mr Phalen said.

“For that reason we’re very pleased to support initiatives that will bring this community together, and there

LET THEIR BE LIGHT. Santos gives Bauhinia a bright future

COMMUNITY CALENDAR Sport

Event

Date

Venue

Cricket

Magpies v Springsure

27/10/12

Emerald

Cricket

Clermont v Rolleston

27/10/12

Clermont

Cricket

Blackwater v Brothers

27/10/12

Blackwater

Triathlon

Emerald Triathlon

28/10/12

Emerald

Water Ski

CQ round 2

27-28/10/12

Bedford weir Blackwater

Water Ski

CQ round 3

17/18/11/12

Rockhampton ski gardens

Rugby League

“Panda” Curtis, charity match

3/11/12

Blackwater

Rio Tinto Coal Australia is proud to be a part rtt of the Clermont, Emerald, Capella, Nebo, Sarina, Mirani and Mackay communities.

We support a range of local projects through the Kestrel Mine Community Development Fund and Clermont Community Development Fund.

The Kestrel Mine Community Development Fund is pleased to partner with Emerald State High School to support the Kestrel WISE programme. heir This initiative has provided students with the opportunity to develop skills for their nce ce e future careers and undertake school based apprenticeships and traineeships since 2003, creating career pathways after school.

In 2012, more than 50 students undertook a School Based Apprenticeship or Traineeship in a wide range of industries including childcare, community services, agriculture, hospitality, hairdressing and boiler making.

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Pictured: Year 12 student Rebecca Milham undertaking a traineeship at Borilla Community Kindy.

For more information about funding for your local project or organisation please contact Alissa Gordon on (07) 4988 3504 or alissa.gordon@riotinto.com

www.riotintocoalaustralia.com.au

MONEY MATTERS 148th EDITION. 2012

Real estate down in Bowen Basin IN JUST one week, an extra 20 houses have been advertised for sale and for rent in each of the Bowen Basin towns of Emerald, Dysart and Moranbah — a far cry from only a few months ago.

Shift Miner has been keeping a close eye on Central Queensland real estate, and the past month has seen almost 450 houses for sale in Emerald, and many for under $450,000.

Admittedly new development has boosted the market. Rental-wise, there are over 130 houses for rent, many for under $450 a week.

Dysart has 140 houses available for rent, with more under the $500 mark. However, there are still quite a number close to $1000 a week. There are 120 houses for sale, up from 100 last week.

Moranbah, which saw such a demand for housing that modest homes were selling

in the high 100s, there are now 287 on the market. This is up 11 from last week.

Some homes are still advertised for over $850,000 and marketed as having a 15 per cent return, but this could be wishful thinking with 368 houses available for rent.

The majority of homes are still in the high 500s.

Rental prices are also remaining high, with about half of them advertised for over

$1000 a week. Shift Miner will keep you posted as to whether these houses remain on the rental market.

The tiny town of Capella, which also experienced an accommodation squeeze and investors inflating the market, has 41 houses for sale and 20 for rent.

For a township of just 760 residents (according to the 2006 census), this is a significant change.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch

WHILE the resources industry has not had the same grip on Australia’s beef capital as it has on Mackay, Gladstone and the Bowen Basin towns, Rockhampton property investors who like things slow and certain are being well rewarded.

According to the latest report from Herron Todd White, the Rockhampton residential real estate market has remained fairly steady over the past year.

The more affordable lower end of the market - under $350,000 - is still the high performer in relation to sales activity.

Recent times have seen a slight increase in activity in the mid to high end of the market, which is dominated by owner-occupiers trading up to a larger and/or better quality residence.

Although Bowen Basin mines have experienced closures and reduced profits in past months, confidence is still strong, according to the report.

“This strength in conjunction with relatively low interest rates, government incentives, and low vacancy rates should encourage both first home owners and investors to remain in the lower market sectors market during 2012,” the report said.

As for Mackay, there has been a drop in optimism and market momentum, despite large volumes of new land sales and new house construction.

How will the mining closures and slowdown affect the market?

“That’s the big question, and is difficult to answer at this stage. We have definite-

ly seen a huge decrease in vacant land sales since the expiry of the building boost,” the Herron Todd White team explained.

However, there are still a number of homes signed up under the building boost that still need construction, so the building industry should continue to be strong in the short-term.

Gladstone? It still continues to grow with ongoing construction of residential developments to combat the need for accommodation.

“We anticipate that as the supply of new homes increase, not only will rental values fall but the demand for older properties will decrease,” the report said.

The number of units presently in either the planning or construction phases could ultimately lead to an oversupply.

“On the contrary, population increases from the influx of workers and their families could absorb part or all of this potential oversupply.”

Rocky remains slow but steady, a bit like the Fitzroy River, when it comes to real estate.

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MONEY MATTERS 148th EDITION. 2012

MONEY TIPS FROM THE EXPERTS

5 reasons to invest in property: expert reveals

For example, there is a school of thought that says, “Work hard, save as much money as you can, put it into a bank account and wait.” That does not sound very attractive to me and besides, how many people do you know who have ‘saved their way to wealth’?

Some people say the stock market is a great way to create wealth. There is no doubt a lot of people have made money on the stock market, but the risk is high and you need to be highly skilled. You also have very little control over what the companies you invest in are doing.

So now, let’s look at the five reasons why investing in real estate is superior to anything else: 1. Increase in value Over the past 50 years and even further back, real estate has always shown a tendency to increase in value. Sure, the growth rate is not the same every year but the overall trend has always been up, and especially right now there are some fabulous opportunities available.

2. Leverage and other people’s money One of the big advantages of real estate is the ability to leverage. In other words, you can easily use other people’s money (in most cases, the banks’ money) to grow your wealth.

3. Your tenant helps pay your interest payments

I AM often asked, “Why should we invest in property?” The simple answer is that buying and holding the right property is the most powerful way to create wealth and more people have

become wealthy and financially free through property than through any other asset class.

Of course there are other options, but most of these are unable to hold a candle to property.

Another great benefit of investing in real estate

is that your tenant helps you pay for your property. In return for providing a roof over their heads, you get paid an income which helps you create wealth.

Right now, you have a unique opportunity where the tenant pays more than what it costs you to hold the property. The end result is you own an investment property that costs you nothing to hold and you end up with more money in your pocket each month to do whatever you like with.

4. A solid asset you never have to sell and you can pass on to future generations One of the secrets of the rich is that they understand true wealth is created from building and holding assets. One of the best assets to hold on to is good quality real estate. If you invest correctly and set yourself up in the right way, you can pass your real estate on to future generations so they can benefit from your efforts as well.

5. Freedom Investing in property with the right plan can help you pay off your personal mortgage, achieve financial freedom, have more time with your family and give you more choices in life.

So investing in property is an amazing vehicle to create wealth. Of course, you need to know where to look and what properties to buy. You don’t want to buy the wrong property and end up with a lemon.

Another great benefit of investing in real estate is that your tenant helps you pay for your property. In return for providing a roof over their heads, you get paid an income which helps you create wealth.

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