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BLACK LUNG Warning for BACK all miners Queensland’s Mine Safety and Health Commissioner has warned that black lung is still a significant threat to Queensland miners.

Black lung, or its technical name pneumonconiosis, has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of American miners over the past decade.

In a presentation to the Queensland Mining Exhibition (QME) conference in Mackay, the Commissioner Stewart Bell discussed the disease while talking about health and safety on site. “The Americans were in a situation where they thought they had it all controlled and then over about a three-year period they picked up a large number of cases of black lung,� said the Commissioner. “It’s still out there. It’s still a possibility.

You need to be aware.�

Some of the disease’s symptoms are shortness of breath and a chronic cough, and its presence means one of mining’s greatest work site hazards could be the simple process of breathing in dust. “It still concerns me we could have dust problems out there,� he said. “I think we’ve got a handle on safety - to a large extent. Health we haven’t.�

Another respiratory disease called silicosis, brought on by breathing in tiny silica particles, is another potentially deadly

workplace hazard for miners. “Testing in some small mines and sandstone quarries near Brisbane found some disturbing levels of respirable silica,� he said. “The problem with silicosis is once you get it, you can’t get rid of it, you’ve got it forever.� “So it’s better to avoid getting it in the first place.�

In a bid to limit miners’ exposure, the inspectorate has been trialling a device

that cuts down dust levels inside machinery cabins. “It basically pressurises the cabin and cleans the air coming into the cabin so you’re not breathing in these very small particles that cause this problem,� the Commissioner said.

So far the trials have been successful in bringing particle levels down from dangerous levels to below acceptable exposure standards. continued page 11

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FROM THE EDITOR

During his visit to the Queensland Mining Exhibition last week, the Opposition Leader Tony Abbott confirmed that his immigration policy would not stand in the way of bringing in skilled workers.

Nevertheless, neither side of politics has addressed how it plans to make sure the skilled workforce that will be required in mining and industry is ready when it is needed.

Energy security is the other big issue the QRC wants on the national agenda.

Australia’s import fuel bill will be $30 billion by 2015, and the QRC says nothing is being done to try and contain the cost, for example drawing on our own national reserves.

You can read about both of these issues in more detail in the pages of this edition.

The federal election campaign is in full swing.

The CQ mining and industrial community encompasses two of the state’s most marginal seats - Flynn and Dawson, so the spotlight is well and truly on the region.

But the Queensland ResourcPERFECT PARMA es Council (QRC) says the big issues aren’t being addressed.

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PETER’S DAY The QRC wants two items on the national political agenda: the skills shortage and how we will fuel AusMINER’S TRADER tralia in the future.

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92nd EDITION. 2010

Miners’ QR bid still on the table: Robertson The Queensland Mines Minister, Stephen Robertson, has given the strongest signal yet that the privatisation of Queensland Rail (QR) could involve selling some of QR to mining companies.

Thirteen mining companies entered a consortium earlier in the year and bid nearly $5 billion for coal tracks owned by QR. Despite the bid eclipsing the government’s own valuation for the entire track and the train business by nearly $2 billion, the Premier initially ruled

the sale out, instead preferring a public float of the company.

However the Minister’s latest comments indicate a sale of QR assets to mining companies is still very much on the bargaining table.

“Work is still underway, but obviously it needs to be brought to a closure pretty soon because there is a timetable depending on which way the government decides to go,” he told the Queensland Mining Expo (QME) conference in Mackay.

Mr Robertson told the QME conference the state government had traditionally invested in mining infrastructure, but those days were over.

“Now that mining is a mature industry the question now is whether government still has a role to play being the infrastructure provider given that it has so many other calls upon it,” he said.

“You have only got to look down the road at the level of investment in the local hospital here to see the level of competition for the infrastructure dollar.”

“In terms of the competing demands we face, is it better to spend a dollar on a hospital or on a railway track?”

“What we have basically said is that the mining industry has got to a position where it is now mature, where it can, in some respects, look after itself.”

Mr Robertson said it was still being debated whether QR should be floated as a company with shareholder investment or become a company owned by miners.

“That is the debate and the discussion that is going on currently,” he said.

The deadline to wrap up the debate is looming.

If the government proceeds with its public float, the initial public offering (IPO) was scheduled for the fourth quarter this year.

However, the Queensland Treasurer, Andrew Fraser, has recently acknowledged the current market was not the ideal time for a public float.

“Obviously no-one is going to pursue that as the timing if the market is not there,” he said.

The Queensland government is also feeling the pressure from the federal government, which strongly supports the miners’ bid to buy the track, and allow competition above the track.

“The Queensland government has acknowledged it has to consider the private model. I think it’s a better model,” the Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson told a QRC lunch recently.

“Mr Robertson said it was still being debated whether QR should be floated as a company with shareholder investment or become a company owned by miners.”

Collinsville community on strike

MINING union, the CFMEU, said it had no choice but to take protected strike action at the Collinsville coal mine, south-east of Bowen, because of long delays on a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).

CFMEU Bowen Basin representative, Steve Pierce, said 250 miners have been involved in rolling stoppages at the Thiessrun mine since Tuesday last week, and are picketing the entrance to the mine.

Mr Pierce said they are reviewing their position daily, and the decision to strike was the last option available after two years of negotiation.

According to the CFMEU, one of the key issues is the difference in the way miners living locally and those that commute in from other places like Bowen and Mackay are treated.

“One of the major areas that we can’t agree on is the amount of support for the local community,” he told Shift Miner.

“Specifically, assistance for those people who live in the local communities of Collinsville and Scottville.”

“Thiess seem very reluctant to provide a similar level of assistance for people who live inside the Collinsville community, as they do

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for those that come from other places.”

“They need to make sure these communities are attractive for people to want to live there, because the more people that live in these towns, the more state government support there is for schools and medical services, and things like that.”

Thiess were contacted by Shift Miner in relation to this story, however, it was not able to provide a comment before printing.

Meanwhile, Collinsville residents have been blockading the coal line to the Abbot Point Coal Terminal because of concerns they have about increased train traffic through the town.

Plans are under way to increase the terminals capacity nearly four-fold; however, there is no short term plan in place to build a railway bypass to take the trains out of Collinsville.

“One of the major areas that we can’t agree on is the amount of support for the local community.”

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92nd EDITION. 2010

Immigration plan won’t worsen skills shortage: Abbott In a surprise visit to the Queensland Mining Expo (QME) in Mackay last week, the federal Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, assured the mining community his proposed cuts to immigration would not worsen the skills shortage.

Delegates at QME had earlier been warned by the Queensland Resources Council that more than 60,000 construction workers were likely to be required in mining across Australia by 2015.

However, Mr Abbott said the problem would not be exacerbated by his plans to nearly halve immigration into Australia.

“First we cannot rely on immigration to meet our skill shortages, we do need to do more to train up more people to do the jobs we have here in our own country,” he told the conference.

“But I do appreciate that in the short and perhaps the medium term that there is going to be a continuing need for skilled immigration, to help this industry out.”

Mr Abbott said while he believed cur-

rent immigration levels were too high, he didn’t want to restrict employer nominated immigration.

“When it comes to immigration I want people coming to this country who are contributors, and the people who can contribute from day one are the people who come in with skills and do a job that no Australian can do, and do a job that is waiting for them from day one.”

The crowd nearly doubled at the QME conference when Mr Abbott and the busload of journalists, photographers and cameramen piled into the conference centre.

Mr Abbott delivered a largely unscripted 15-minute presentation which attacked the former Rudd government’s mining tax, call-

ing it a “moonbeam from a larger lunacy”.

He also suggested the Gillard government could not be trusted to repeal all the implications of the tax, and recommitted himself to working within the existing industrial relations laws established by Labor.

The amount of mining carried out in Queensland could double within 10 years, according to the Queensland Resources Council (QRC).

QRC chief executive, Michael Roche, says mining towns should anticipate another boom that will be much bigger than the last one from 2004 to 2009.

“We believe that the Queensland resources sector could well be growing in the next decade by anything between 60 and 100 per cent,” he told ABC radio.

Mr Roche wants part of the discussions during the federal election campaign to focus on how Australia will cope with another mining boom.

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“I do appreciate that in the short and perhaps the medium term that there is going to be a continuing need for skilled immigration, to help this industry out.”

to the advertising campaign last week.

“If the Prime Minister thinks that the mining tax issue is dead and buried, she is wrong,” said AMEC CEO Simon Bennison.

He said his members had still not been given an opportunity to talk to the Prime Minister on the issue.

“We have attempted to pose a number of questions and concerns raised by our mid cap mining and

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Junior miners continue tax attack JUNIOR miners and explorers have relaunched an advertising campaign against the federal government’s new-look mining tax.

In one of her first tasks as Prime Minister, Julia Gillard met with three big miners to negotiate a new tax on the resources sector.

But smaller miners say they were left out of those talks, and they’re not happy with the deal, which is aimed at coal and iron ore above a 12 per cent threshold at a rate of 30 per cent rate.

The Association for Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) gave the nod

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junior explorer members that need to be addressed by the government.”

Mr Bennison said its member companies’ main concerns with the tax were: the confusion it had created in investment and capital markets; that it will act as a disincentive to investment and does not promote minerals exploration; and that Australia’s international competitiveness has been reduced.

“If the Prime Minister thinks that the mining tax issue is dead and buried, she is wrong.”

China has overtaken the US to become the world’s biggest energy user, according to a new report.

Figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA) show that China’s energy consumption has doubled in a decade.

Last year, it consumed 2.252 billion tonnes of energy from sources including coal, nuclear power, natural gas and hydroelectric power - that’s four per cent more than the US, according to the IEA. The US has been the world’s biggest energy consumer for the past 100 years.

China has rejected the report, and says the figures are unreliable. .....................................................................

TARONG ON HOLD

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News

92nd EDITION. 2010

Gas industry under increasing scrutiny EIGHT more government compliance officers will be based in the Surat Basin, to police the burgeoning coal seam gas (CSG) industry.

The state government has been accused by green groups and farmers of being lax on the issue, but the Mines and Energy Minister, Stephen Robertson, said these eight new jobs were part of a “tougher stance” that will significantly ramp up the monitoring, inspection and enforcement of the industry.

The eight positions will be based in Roma and Dalby, and include two new rangers who will regulate CGS activities in forest estates, and three environmental officers who will make regular visits to other sites to ensure compliance.

Mr Robertson said the government was determined to get the right balance between the growth of the industry, the rights of landholders and protecting the environment.

“This new squad of mining and environmental officers is what this region needs for a responsible and accountable coal seam gas industry,” Mr Robertson said.

“Together they form a tougher watchdog for the industry, ensuring that environmental obligations are strictly delivered on and approved gas extraction processes are followed by the book.”

The Environment Minister, Anatascia Palaszczuk, continued the government’s new “tough talk” on the industry.

“If the industry cannot operate within the limits and conditions of their government approvals, they have no place in Queensland,” Ms Palaszczuk said.

Back in May, the Mines and Energy Minister ordered the state’s CGS producers to fully audit their operations, following numerous complaints from farmers about leaking wells.

All CSG producers were required to do a complete inspection and risk assessment of all existing well-heads and provide a report to the government on the results.

The Queensland Mines Safety Commissioner, Stewart Bell, told a recent estimates hearing that more than 2,000 wells have been checked so far and 13 required immediate repairs.

Mr Bell said of those 13, none posed a

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danger to the public.

Rural lobby group, AgForce, has welcomed the appointment of new compliance officers as a step towards making the sector accountable.

“While the appointment of these officers fills a long standing gap in the government’s mining and CSG compliance regime, there still remains unresolved issues with the impact of extraction activities on groundwater sources,” said Agforce’s policy director Drew Wagner.

“We have serious concerns about the unknown impact processes such as ‘fraccing’ (which involves pumping water, silica and a chemical carrying agents into CSG wells under pressure) has on the quality of groundwater.”

Mr Wagner said contamination of groundwater at Cougar Energy’s underground coal gasification plant near Kingaroy has prompted the government into action.

But the CGS industry has been at pains to point out the vast differences between itself and the UCG sector.

The UCG process occurs underground converting coal to a synthesised (or nonnatural) gas via enforced combustion; Queensland has three demonstration plants which have been operating under strict conditions.

The CSG process involves drawing water from the coal seams which releases the coal seam gas which is primarily a naturally occurring methane gas.

“If the industry cannot operate within the limits and conditions of their government approvals, they have no place in Queensland.”

No new UCG projects in Qld NO new underground coal gasification (UCG) projects will be allowed in Queensland for at least two years.

A groundwater contamination scare at Cougar Energy’s pilot plant has sparked community concern at the nearby town of Kingaroy, in the Burnett region.

Hundreds of residents met last week to voice their anger at continued mining exploration in the region.

In particular they are concerned that West Australian company, Red River Resources, has an exploration permit which covers some part of the town.

But the Queensland Mines Minister, Stephen Robertson, has moved to reassure residents that no new UCG projects will be considered until the end of current trials in 2012.

“It is irresponsible for a company to claim it is going to start a UCG project when

it has no approvals,” Mr Robertson said.

“An exploration permit is no guarantee to a mining permit.”

“They can look for coal but they have no rights to take it out of the ground.”

“The Government asked all companies with a permit for coal to register their interest in UCG last year.”

“One company in particular, Red River Resources, did not and has not formally registered any interest in UCG.” There are three UCG pilot projects currently underway in Queensland, and at the end of the supervised trials in 2012 the government will make a decision about the long term environmental feasibility of the industry.

Cougar Energy’s plant has been closed down while the contamination incident is investigated, and most staff have been laid off.

“One company in particular, Red River Resources, did not and has not formally registered any interest in UCG.”

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92nd EDITION. 2010

How will we fuel the future?

LESS than five years from now, Australia’s annual import bill for liquid fuels is forecast to be $30 billion a year.

That startling figure was contained in a provocative speech by Queensland Resources Council (QRC) chief executive, Michael Roche,

at a CEDA conference in Brisbane recently.

“On current figures, that’s [$30 billion] equivalent to wiping the entire value of our agricultural exports off the balance of payments ledger,” Mr Roche said.

Mr Roche said when the Carbon Pollu-

tion Reduction Scheme collapsed last year, work on the federal government’s energy white paper also stopped.

“That’s a luxury we can’t afford,” he told the conference.

“Liquid fuels may be a luxury we can’t continue to import let alone afford in five years time.”

Mr Roche likened the quantity and variety of Queensland’s resources to an energy supermarket, but said the state government was turning it into a 7/11 convenience store by locking up certain opportunities.

He pointed to the government’s refusal to allow uranium mining, and its decision to impose a 20-year moratorium on an enormous shale oil resource near Proserpine, in north Queensland.

“Let me remind you that less than five years from now, our balance of payments will be taking an annual hit of $30 billion a year and we are yet to see a train, truck or tractor that runs on batteries,” he said.

“We have to do something about that.”

“It will not go away if we shut our eyes and there is no evidence of anyone from another planet arriving to help us.”

“We have to get over the notion that it

is either beyond our capabilities or not our responsibility to foster and develop new energy technologies.”

Mr Roche said he remained convinced there was a huge opportunity in Queensland for an industry converting coal to liquid fuels.

He made reference to the recent contamination of groundwater at Cougar Energy’s Kingaroy demonstration plant for underground coal gasification, but questioned whether the incident should mean closing the shutters to the technology.

“I do fear that we are increasingly prepared to sacrifice energy security on the altar of short-term green politics rather than face up to the challenges and opportunities staring us in the face,” Mr Roche said.

Mr Roche said fossil fuels needed to be backed up by low-emission power production technologies and renewables.

He said he didn’t expect energy security to be discussed in detail during the current federal election.

“This is a national conversation we should be having right now, but to date have been denied by timid political leadership that resorts to glib sloganeering.”

“It will not go away if we shut our eyes and there is no evidence of anyone from another planet arriving to help us.”

10,000 ships on Peter Miller’s watch TEN thousand ships have been loaded at the Hay Point Coal Terminal since it opened in 1971, and one man has witnessed it all.

The first ship to be loaded in October 1971 was the Yamato Maru taking coal to Japan.

The 10,000th ship loaded in July 2010 was the MV China Steel Express taking coal to Taiwan.

The one employee who helped load the first ship - as well as the 10,000th - is Peter Miller.

A celebration was held at the terminal last week to mark the milestone, and com-

memorative plaques were presented to the captain and crew of the MV China Steel Express and Mr Miller.

Speaking at the event, BMA CEO Marcelo Bastos, recognised his employee’s 39 years of service. “It is the strong commitment of our people like Peter Miller that allows us to achieve this success,” Mr Bastos said.

“I want to publicly acknowledge and thank our employees for their contribution to reaching this milestone.”

39 YEARS SERVICE: BMA CEO Marcelo Bastos with long time Hay Point employee Peter Miller

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News

92nd EDITION. 2010

Local Rio mines top in safety

Cyril leads the way CYRIL Leonard is the first Indigenous hospitality trainee at the Blackwater International Coal Centre (BICC).

He began his training in June, and his position is funded by BMA Blackwater mine as part of its ongoing commitment to help train locals.

Cyril is being skilled up in many aspects of hospitality, including food preparation, cooking, gardening, front of house and customer service.

“I learn new skills every day. There’s so much variety in what I do, all of which will stand me in good stead for future roles,” he said.

Cyril says once he’s learned the trade, he’d like to train and mentor other Indigenous people in the hospitality industry.

“My biggest learning is to believe in yourself and have a go at new things,” he said.

“It’s not about what you can’t do, it’s about what you can do.”

Blackwater mine’s acting general manager, Andrew Betts, said the traineeship was designed to support the local Indigenous community.

“It’s a win-win outcome, capacity building for the community and providing additional resources for the BICC,” Andrew said.

TWO Queensland coal mines have taken out Rio Tinto’s top global safety awards.

Hail Creek mine took out the Chief Executive Safety Awards for 2010, following one of its best years in safety performance since it started in 2003.

General manager operations, Andrew Woodley, thanked Hail Creek mine’s 680 permanent employees and 200 contractors on their continued efforts to improve safety standards.

“Well done to the team at Hail Creek this is a significant award within the Rio Tinto Group and is well-deserved recognition for the commitment of the team at Hail Creek to working safely,” he said.

The Blair Athol mine, near Clermont, was also recognised as one of the two most improved sites - in terms of safety.

General manager operations, Andrew Cole, said his mine’s award was a tremenSLICE & DICE: Cyril is learning the tricks of the hospitality trade

dous achievement.

“Let us use this award and past good performances of both the Blair Athol and Clermont sites as encouragement to further reduce incidents by improving our safety processes and culture as we strive to deliver zero harm,” Mr Cole said.

Rio Tinto chief executive, Tom Albanese, said both sites should be congratulated.

“The presence of world class performers within the group is very important in highlighting that excellent safety performance is achievable in the mining industry and is independent of local culture, economic conditions and past practices,” Mr Albanese said.

The Queensland mine sites were selected ahead of the many operations within the Rio Tinto Group, which encompasses aluminum, copper, diamonds, energy products, gold, industrial minerals and iron ore businesses around the world.

“This is a significant award within the Rio Tinto Group and is well-deserved.”

Mackay happiest part of Qld? HAPPINESS levels in the Mackay, Whitsunday and Isaac region are higher than the state average, according to a new survey.

The Regional Economic Development Corporation (REDC) sent out the “happiness survey” to local businesses, as a follow up to a national survey conducted by Brisbane-based company, Mind Gardener.

The national survey revealed Queensland was the third happiest state in Australia; Western Australia was the happiest state with 60 per cent of people describing themselves as generally happy, followed by New

South Wales on 54 per cent.

Nearly 55 per cent of Mackay residents reported they were generally happy, significantly higher than the Queensland-wide statistic of 49 per cent.

REDC CEO, Narelle Pearse, said the results show the region values relationships and has strong links to social networks.

“It seems that Mackay people are the most satisfied in Australia with their relationships,” Ms Pearse said.

“Only 3.4 per cent said that they would be happier if they could improve their cur-

H AV E YO U

rent relationship compared to a huge 30 per cent of Victorians.”

“We also had a large percentage of people reporting that they become happier by being around happy people.” she said.

Residents felt that doing something completely different with their life and slowing

their life down would increase their happiness levels; money was also an important contributing factor.

More than 200 people took part in the survey.

“The results show that people in our region really value the notion of work life balance,” said Ms Pearse.

“The mine would have a life span of 25 years and produce around 4 million tonnes of coal per annum.”

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Matt Lawless, 21

Jay Beattie, 23

Abbot Point Coal Terminal, electrician

Mel Hunter, 21

Millennium mine, shotfirer

When I’m not at work you’ll find me: At the gym or the beach My best attribute is: Being at the right place at the right time If I could invite three people to dinner they would be (and why): My three best friends, I would want to have dinner with people whose company I enjoy My signature dish is: Roasted stuffed Italian chicken with tomato and eschallot sauce If I didn’t work in mining or industry I would be a: Personal trainer What are two topics that should be off limits on a first date: Ex boyfriends/girlfriend and politics

Karen Hurt, 49

Clermont Coal, operator

Carborough Downs, laboratory rat

When I’m not at work you’ll find me: Surfing at the beach, kite surfing or BBQs and drinks with friends

When I’m not at work you’ll find me: Drinking with the girls, on my dirt bike, or out in the surf!

The best advice I’ve ever been given is: My dad told me as a kid: “Don’t eat yellow snow” (I was brought up in a cold climate - love Qld!)

The best advice I’ve ever been given is: You got to be flexible in this game, it’s a jungle out there

The best advice I’ve ever been given is: Back it up like a mack truck

My perfect date would be: I love to put on a nice dress and go to a restaurant with great food and drinks. It’s a good way to spend time getting to know a person in a pleasant environment indulging on one of the pleasures of life

My perfect date would be: Having a romantic dinner on the beach drinking champagne and a good conversation My life is best described in the song: “Should of known better” by Richard Marx If I could invite three people to dinner they would be (and why): 1. My work mate Clayton because he’s an absolute crack head, 2. Will Farrel because he’s a crack up, and 3. Hugh Hefner because he knows where the after party’s at If I didn’t work in mining or industry I would be a: Try to go pro for surfing and/or buy a cafe

My perfect date would be: Camping or going for a ride on some horses or bikes My worst habit is: Being cheeky If I could invite three people to dinner they would be (and why): Tara, Tash and Holly who’s also in this bachelorette comp... because changeover nights are never dull with those girls!

If I didn’t work in mining or industry I would be a: Personal trainer, jillaroo or maybe start my own business

If I could invite three people to dinner they would be (and why): My mum and dad as that would mean my dad was still alive. While I’m on resurrections I’d have John Lennon because “Imagine”!

My friends say I am: Friendly, funny, happy, generous, and talented, with great taste and a sense of humour. Oh well, I said that and they all nodded My signature dish is: Natural oysters with a dollop of sour cream, salmon caviar on one side, a slice of smoked salmon on the other side, a thin slice of lemon, salt and pepper. Scrummy If I could have any animal as a pet I would choose (and why): An Armadillo. Sickem Rex. No more ant problem. Actually make that an echidna - much cuter

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CQ BUSINESS 92nd EDITION. 2010

QME great success in 2010 Last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Queensland Mining Exhibition (QME) in Mackay was a knockout success, say organisers.

Thousands of exhibitors showed off their wares and expertise at the expo, and the Opposition Leader Tony Abbott even made a surprise visit to speak at the QME conference.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some of the people representing local and big business that Shift Miner snapped at the event.

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John Wakerley - G&S Engineering, Mathew Mitchell - Carmichael Fisher

Kevin Hall - FKG Civil Contractors, Dominic Hallam - UEA Civil and Mining

CQ BUSINESS 92nd EDITION. 2010

Need to know... 100s more jobs STANWELL FLOODING THREAT Flooding and road access have been identified as the major risks associated with the development of more industrial land in the Stanwell industrial corridor, west of Rockhampton.

The supply of industrial land in Rockhampton is a core concern for local government and mining businesses, given the expected increase in industries needed to service the resurgent mining sector.

A private workshop to discuss the progress of the “Rockhampton Industrial Land Availability Study” (RILAS) has revealed that very little is known about the potential flood risk in corridor.

Of particular interest is how man-made obstacles, such as the Blackwater railway, would redirect flood water.

MINES MOVE MACHINES Shipping agency Skelton Sherborne (SS) says the mining sector’s hunger for heavy

earth moving machinery has increased the overall value of machinery imports into Australia for June.

However, while value was up, volumes were down by a third, with demand for smaller machines dropping sharply in some categories.

Among the big upward movers were graders, with 73 imported in June - a 55 per cent increase off the back of a 7000 per cent increase in May.

COUGAR NOT LINC-ED Underground coal gasification (UCG) company Linc Energy has moved to distance itself from Cougar Energy following the shut down of Cougar’s Kingaroy plant.

In a statement to the stock exchange, Linc labelled media coverage of the Kingaroy shut-down as “inaccurate and misleading”.

Linc chief executive, Peter Bond, says its Chinchilla project is compliant with all legislative requirements.

Linc Energy has moved to distance itself from Cougar Energy

for Blackwater?

AQUILA Resources says a new coal mine at Blackwater, which would generate hundreds more mining jobs, is both technically and economically feasible.

The company has just completed it’s “project feasibility study” for the Washpool hard coking coal project just north west of Blackwater, and has estimated that it can extract coal for around $106 per tonne.

Using an estimated coal price in the future of $US144 a tonne and an Australian dollar worth about 70 US cents, Aquila is forecasting the mine could yield about 30 per cent, making it a highly profitable proposal.

The mine would have a life of 25 years, and produce around 4 million tonnes of coal which would be exported through the expanded Wiggins Island coal terminal in Gladstone.

In assessing the viability of the proposed mine, Aquila has budgeted on spending around $320 million in development costs, of which just under half would be used for the construction of roads and other surface infrastructure.

About $50 million has been set aside for a coal handling and preparation plant.

Aquila will now complete another final feasibility study, which will more closely analyse different options for mining the coal.

Among the core issues to be evaluated are the introduction of a drag-line in the second year to replace a mining system using trucks and excavators.

Aquila still has to successfully complete an environmental impact statement, and cultural heritage investigation, before a mine could be developed at the site.

“The mine would have a life span of 25 years and produce around 4 million tonnes of coal per annum.”

Commish wants Anglo supports future miners to breathe easy business leaders

FRONT PAGE STORY

The trials will now be extended across more mines in the south-east corner and also central Queensland.

On the topic of mines safety, the Commissioner said one concern remained on the top of the pile.

“I meet with the two chief inspectors every Monday morning and every single week we talk about the collisions of large vehicles with large vehicles, large vehicles with small vehicles and large vehicles with people.”

The Commissioner still wants to legislate to make proximity detection devices mandatory, but admits progress has been slower than he would have liked.

“Unfortunately I don’t think we’ve gone forward fast enough.”

“We had a near miss about four months ago in a coal mine where a guy was crushed by a shuttle car.”

“He was just lucky he happened to get crushed into a bit of boggy ground and the

bog absorbed the energy and he wasn’t seriously hurt.”

“He still had broken legs so it wasn’t a minor accident, but he could so easily have been killed.”

While technology is still being developed for underground coal mining, about half a dozen devices are now available for above ground mining, and they range in price from $3000 to $50,000.

“From our point of view the $3000 system works,” Commissioner Bell told the conference.

“If the mines want to put in the Rolls Royce system that’s fine... but we won’t be mandating that.”

Commissioner Bell said it was important to acknowledge that Queensland and Australia had an excellent safety record.

“I think it is important to remember we have the best mine safety record in the world bar none.”

“I meet with the two chief inspectors every Monday morning and every single week we talk about the collisions of large vehicles with large vehicles, large vehicles with small vehicles and large vehicles with people.”

KEEPING up-to-date with ICT has been made a little easier for students at Moranbah state school.

Anglo’s Moranbah North mine has donated two new data projectors the school, valued at more than $1000 each.

All grade 6 students have also been provided with a laptop backpack to make

transporting their computers to and from school a little easier.

Staff and students at the school want to thank Moranbah North mine for their continued support.

See our front page photo of students enjoying their new backpacks [photo contributed by Tina Daniel].

The secret to better business IT may seem obvious, but the most valuable asset in any business is the staff.

If staff are performing to their full potential, it shows in the bottom line.

The latest workshop hosted by the Gladstone Engineering Alliance (GEA) will focus on how to get the most from your staff and improve productivity.

Organisational psychologist, Elizabeth Norris, will present the workshop featuring a range of techniques that include: harnessing creativity, staff selection, people development and reward systems.

GEA project manager, John Smits, said the workshop was a rare opportunity for local businesses to discover the power of effective people management.

“The GEA is committed to strengthening the corporate, industrial, commercial and retail sectors of Gladstone and this latest workshop is another initiative to enhance local business success,” he said.

The workshop is being held on Wednesday 18th August at the Grand Hotel; for more information call the GEA on 4972 9060.

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around town 92nd EDITION. 2010

GET YOUR GAME ON!

A Grade footy was the main attraction at Bluff recently, with Blackwater defeating Dysart, and Clermont beating the home team Bluff.

Tanya O’Donoghue and Alyce Hammond

Zara Black and Hayden Latchford

Kylie Webley and Stacey Steinhardt

Lyn and Lindsay Burke

Dale and Sophie McKay

Dorothy and Tyler McKay with Sheryl Broughton

Mackenzie and Mona Saunders

Edna and Denise Doyle, Dylan Twaddle and Preston Byrne

Darbee and Nicole Muller and Mackenzie Saunders

Dianne and Zac Clemesha

Robyn Kilpatrick and Marvic Contreras

Josh Kilpatrick, Mark Contreras and Dennis Ferguson

Hayley Dwyer and Layne O’Brien

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around town 92nd EDITION. 2010

LIONS ROAR AT BLUFF

Mimmo Cisternino with Jo and Joe Coppo

The Blackwater Lions Club race meeting was held at Bluff in late July

Josh Snell, Steven Bird, Ben Chirgwin and Stephen Jablonski

BMA mine manager Albert Scheepers, Leah Fay, Deb Hancox and Bill Kendall. BMA sponsored the day

Wes, Deb and Col Goodwin

Melbourne visitors Chiara Catalan, Kelly Klennes, Stacey Hauris, Kane Smith, Daniel Carour, Karl Hunter, Bernie Birch, Frank Grima, Frank Sowada & Made Harimbawa

Maria & Tim Osborne, Tim Fuller, Rachel Buhse and Jay Glover

Anthony Raines, Annette Bush, Trent Jackson, Nick Woodbyrne and Angela Powell

Kimber-Lee Stewart, Ricky and Shannon Wilson

Peyton, Mariah, Simone and Doyle

Sarah Forster and Nicole Wilkings

Penny Muller and Dee Power

Drew Little, Lana Sweet and Tye Hooper

Michelle, Nicole, Jemima, Emma, Kelsey, Yolander, Courtney, Emma and Sarah

Aaron Butcher, Max Power, Henry Gonzales, Deon Howells and Rick Williams from AMWU

Holding a social event you want photographed? Call the Shift Miner office on 4921 4333 to let us know. You can also give our office a bell if you’d like a copy of any of the photos in this edition.

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Shift Miner’s Most Eligible Bachelors and Bachelorettes are getting the blood pumping in CQ. The texts have been pouring in, and there is no clear favourite in sight!

Your bachelor Glen Finning is a spunk. Funny, creative and successful. What a man... how do we vote?

Brenda, Emerald Where has Matthew Goldman been hiding? I wish there were more men like that in my workplace! Anna, Mackay Can you tell me how I get in touch with Bri [Mouat] from the bachelorette comp? She looks like a honey.

W.D, Rockhampton Editor’s note: While we can’t give out the phone numbers of our entrants (because that would just be creepy!) we can tell you how you can vote for your favourite. When we have finished showcasing all the entrants, they’ll all appear altogether for you to vote in your top 6 finalists. Then you’ll have the chance to get everyone at work texting in to vote in the winners. Stay tuned...

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Xstrata will have to do more than help junior rugby to get me on side.

T.R, Collinsville Our story of investing in mining towns was no surprise to this reader:

Thanks for stating the obvious Shift Miner, we all know mining towns make good investments as long as you buy and sell at the right time. It’s hardly news. Ted, Mackay

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FAIR DINKUM 92nd EDITION. 2010

Fair Dinkum! Frank the Tank’s

IN THE UNITED STATES - A cops’ career has been cut short after he attended the performance of a dwarf porn star while he was on duty.

Police officer, Richard Bennett, deserted his late night patrol to visit “the world’s smallest porn star” - Bridget “The Midget” Powers - who was performing at a gentleman’s club.

Officer Bennett, who was in uniform at the time, has since resigned from his Massachusetts beat.

Five other officers reported his misdemeanour to police bosses.

“Mama told me there would be days like this,” police chief Paul Shastany said.

“We are not red-faced, in fact, I am pretty proud [other officers] stepped up.”

IN INDIA - what would you do for a couple of bucks?

A farm laborer in India took “double dares” to a whole new high recently, when he ate a highly poisonous snake.

The 35-year-old killed the reptile by throwing stones at it, and then egged on by his friends, he consumed the entire snake raw for a 100 rupee wager.

That equates to $2.35.

Not long afterwards, the man began to vomit and was rushed to hospital.

He’s only alive today because doctors managed to pump his stomach and stop the venom from entering his blood stream.

IN AUSTRALIA - Romantic comedies are not just a potential hazard to your sanity or an insult to your intelligence, there is now evidence they could be derailing your relationships.

It seems rom-coms are not just harmless piffle with endless wittering about

feelings and compulsive longing for rose petals, but are a downright endangerment to our love lives.

A home video survey of 1000 Australians carried out by Warner found that almost half said rom-coms with their happy-ever-after endings have distorted their view of an ideal relationship.

One in four Australians said they now expected to know what their partner was thinking while one in five respondents said it made their partners expect gifts and flowers ‘just because’.

You have been warned...

STILL IN AUSTRALIA - Poor old gassy cows are being cut some slack by environmentalist who are now turning their attention to the farty and belchy bad habits of ferals.

Don’t load the shotgun for a cull of dreadlocked hippies just yet... the ferals out of favour aren’t the north coast NSW variety but feral animals like water buffalo and camels.

A study commissioned by the Nature Conservancy and the Pew Environmental Group found a cull of the outback’s feral animals could eliminate billions of tonnes of carbon emissions.

Pew spokesman Barry Traill said the current camel culling program needed to be extended.

“When feral animals belch they release methane, a particularly noxious greenhouse gas, and every single camel or water buffalo releases the equivalent of around one tonne of carbon dioxide each year,” he told reporters in Canberra.

Dr Traill said the practical and inexpensive measures should be part of all political parties climate change policies.

A cops’ career has been cut short after he attended the performance of a dwarf porn star while he was on duty.

“Streakin” good love advice Dear Frank, I know you probably wanted to answer the question in a couple of weeks, but is it possible to have the final instalment of your biography in the next edition? I’m on the edge of my seat.

Adam Adam, I have considered your request and my response is a resounding yes - mainly because I received no other requests for love advice this week.

For those who did not catch last edition, I revealed for the first time ever that I was born in British India to a wealthy merchant family. After attempting to assassinate Ghandi, I was forced to flee the country with no family and joined a seminary in Australia where I discovered that I had an extremely odd allergy to holy water after the Arch Bishop’s failure to perform a successful exorcism.

The continuity and the lucidity of this second instalment will depend on how well I recall the lies I fed you last week and the exact nature of my blood alcohol content. Whilst I had left the seminary, my thirst for knowledge was still as yet unquenched and I enrolled in university to study Bachelor of Journalism majoring in Politics. I hated journalism and (as I frequently and happily tell my colleagues at Shift Miner Magazine) all the self important, delusional hacks that work in the industry.

But I had a real passion for politics and in particular, Marx’s Communist Manifesto. I joined student unions and pushed for a greater presence of the Australian Communist Party in Australian politics.

Unfortunately, numbers began to wane in

Sensible Susan Adam, For the life of me I cannot work out why you would encourage Frank to continue writing his completely fictitious autobiography. I have gone back through all of the columns he has written and found that he

Australia after the little ‘snafus’ committed by the Soviet Union in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. So I took off overseas to Cuba where the revolution was still foremost in the minds of the motivated proletariat. I struck up a good friendship with Che Guevara and together, with Fidel Castro, inspired the populace to throw out the pig Batista and install a Marxist-communist style economy – one that is still a financial powerhouse today.

A week before Che died, he told me that in the event of his death the international rights to his image would be gifted to me so that I could go on and use them to promote the glorious revolution.

People have said that it was mighty suspicious that he would die so soon after promising me such a valuable asset upon his death. I have found it easy to flatly deny this charge as being both unfair and complete speculation. People have also gone on to say that it was mighty suspicious that instead of using his image to promote the People’s Revolution, I would go on to trademark that image and reinvest that money in various venture capitalist initiatives to vastly increase the size of my own personal wealth. I have not found it as easy to flatly deny this charge as being both unfair and complete speculation.

I am at the moment trying to unionise the staff at Shift Miner Magazine and rise up against the owner – Angus Peacocke… so far everyone seems to be balking at the idea of assassinating him and dragging his body through the streets behind a car.

That completes my completely contradictory and vastly anachronistic biography. Perhaps in a later edition, I will regale the Shift Miner readership of the time I filmed Captain Cook’s expedition to the North Pole.

Regards, Frank

is massively flexible with the truth.

The number of wives he has had ranges from seven through to 46. His age can be estimated at anywhere from between 33 to 84. And, the number of different jobs he has had is close to 100. How is any of this possible?

It turns out the holy water thing is true, though. Every morning I slip a little more into his gin supply. He keeps complaining how much it ‘burns on the way down’ lately.

Susan

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

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5 minute fiction

OFF SHIFT 92nd EDITION. 2010

by Bernard S. Jansen

A part of this Australian society

“Have you been in Australia long, Dr Ramji?”

“Please Mark, just be calling me Ramji. I have been here twelve years. I came first to study medicine at UQ.”

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“Wow.” Mark was lying face down on the examination bench, waiting for Ramji to remove a mole from the back of his leg.

“Can you feel that?” said Ramji.

“Feel what?”

“Good, the anaesthetic is working just fine. I was poking your leg with the point of my scalpel.”

“Well, I didn’t feel a thing. You can start now, I suppose.”

“I am already starting, Mark. Please be lying very still.”

Mark lay very still. The pulling and tugging as Ramji cut into his leg felt weird. “Can I ask you a personal question, Ramji?”

“Sure. Normally it is I that is asking the personal questions.”

Mark laughed, and relaxed a little. “Are you a Muslim; is that why you have that … your head covered?”

“No, Mark,” said Ramji, “I am not a Muslim. This is a turban I have on my head. I am Sikh.”

“You’re sick?”

“No, I am not ill. I am a Sikh. It is a religion, from my native India.”

“Fair dinkum?” said Mark. “I though it was mainly Muslims in India.”

“Actually, Hindus are by far making up the biggest Indian religion. Then there are many others, like Muslims, and Christians, and us Sikhs, and many, many others. I am ready to start your suturing now.”

“My what?”

“Your sutures. Stitches.”

“Cool. I suppose you have a lot of people ask about your turban?”

“Actually, no. You are the first in about one year. I am thinking people are scared they will be offending me.”

“Have I offended you?”

“Good gracious, no.”

“That good.”

Ramji laughed. “Yes,” he said. “Especially as it is I that is having the scalpel.”

Mark laughed too.

Ramji said, “May I ask what are your religious beliefs, Mark?”

“I’ve got to say, I don’t like religions, myself.”

“Oh?” “It causes so much conflict.”

“That is true; there is much religious conflict. But then, people are always finding some things to be fighting about. Stopping the religions is not enough to be stopping all the wars. Your leg is all finished now Mark.”

Mark sat up on the bench and looked at the dressing on his leg and poked at the skin around it, feeling where the anaesthetic had deadened his leg.

“So what’s your answer?”

“To make world peace?”

“To stopping religious violence, and conflict.”

“Respect, and freedom, and not taking revenge. I have the freedom to be a Sikh without fear; and my neighbour, a Christian, and my other neighbour, perhaps like you, with having no religion at all.”

“But aren’t people always killing each other about religion in India?”

“True, it is happening sometimes,” said Ramji, his head rocking from side to side.

“That is one very big reason for why I am loving Australia. I did not stay here for the taste of the food.”

Mark laughed, but he wasn’t convinced.

“But doesn’t people coming here, and keeping their own religions, stop them from being part of Australian society?”

Ramji made a tut-tut sound. “Mark, my friend, I am a doctor, here in Emerald, removing a mole and maybe cancer from your leg. Am I not right now being a part of this Australian society?”

Bernard S. Jansen is 32, married has three young boys. He lives in Emerald, works as an engineer at a local coal mine and is active in his local church. Read more of Bernard’s writing online at surgebin.blogspot.com or email him at bernard.jansen@gmail.com GOT AN IDEA FOR A STORY? Let Bernard know - email him at bernard.jansen@gmail.com or hop on his blog surgebin.blogspot.com

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OFF SHIFT 92nd EDITION. 2010

Bait shop Banter FISHING IN YEPPOON While the weather has been a bit unkind to Cap Coast anglers of late, Ian from Capricorn Coast Sport and Hobby Centre reckons it is all about seizing your chances.

Ian recommends timing your run and if you don’t venture out too far you should be able to nab yourself a window of opportunity.

While conditions may be patchy the good news is the fish seem to be up in size with good-sized trout, reds and some beaut 6-8kg snapper coming in.

The beaches are being haunted by another menace - as frustrating as bad weather the dreaded green toad fish.

While their presence is cyclical and they are not an uncommon foe, according to Ian this year’s brood are in plague proportions and jumbo in size - with some of the suckers up to a metre long even in close.

Not only are these brutes butt ugly, slimy and toxic they are also a hazard to your

hardware as the devils take bait and lures plus bite off tracers and sinkers.

Ian says if they are giving you a hard time there is no point standing your ground and recommends trying again 50-100 yards down the beach.

Because if the bastards don’t get you down, there are spoils to be had like 1-1.5kg, 40-45cm bream and monster whiting.

Creeks are pretty much the same on the green toad front with Ross Creek particularly swarming with insurgents.

Ian’s advice remains the same, try another spot and hang tough because there are some nice steelback salmon in amongst the slimy buggers.

bad weather to wrestle with.

Despite the on/off conditions mackerel are continuing to fish well and bottom fishing is also nice and steady.

There appears to be plenty of fish about but just not in completely crazed numbers.

Creeks are a good option with salmon, grunter and bream up for grabs. Big flathead around the 50cm mark are not uncommon this time of year.

A few crabs are still kicking about too.

Barra are still being hauled out of the dams with lucky punters focusing on the top water.

Dylan suggests using squidgy frogs and shallow diving gar imitations to score a tight line.

FISHING IN GLADSTONE

FISHING IN MACKAY

Dylan from Pat’s Tackle World says round Gladstone seems mercifully free of the marauding green toad hoards and that anglers only really have some intermittent

The top tip from Zac at Nashy’s Compleat Angler is that the Spanish mackerel are in the zone and the hot spot to catch them is Baileys Island.

Tide Times MACKAY Gladstone

Mon 2 Tue 3 Wed 4 Thu 5 Fri 6 Time Ht Time Ht

Time Ht

Time Ht

Sat 7 Sun 8

Time Ht Time Ht Time Ht

Your weather forecast With Mike Griffin

0033 3.13 0125 2.89 0245 2.72 0421 2.71 0548 2.86 0054 1.08 0146 0.78 0658 1.28 0758 1.39 0921 1.40 1036 1.27 1143 1.06 0652 3.09 0745 3.32 1337 3.10 1449 3.09 1612 3.23 1726 3.51 1827 3.83 1245 0.82 1343 0.58 1919 1.70 2059 1.80 2238 1.66 2353 1.39

1919 4.14 2006 4.39

0210 3.98 0317 3.66 0502 3.53 0047 1.97 0152 1.54 0246 1.13 0335 0.77 0850 1.73 1005 1.82 1135 1.69 0629 3.70 0735 3.99 0830 4.30 0919 4.59 1528 3.92 1658 4.03 1817 4.39 1246 1.38 1345 1.01 1439 0.66 1530 0.36 2130 2.32 2318 2.30

1920 4.86 2013 5.34 2100 5.75 2145 6.09

MACKAY Gladstone

Mon 9 Tue 10 Wed 11 Thu 12 Fri 13 Sat 14 Sun 15 Time Ht Time Ht Time Ht Time Ht Time Ht Time Ht Time Ht 0233 0.51 0317 0.29 0400 0.17 0440 0.15 0521 0.25 0601 0.46 0031 3.69 0831 3.53 0916 3.71 1001 3.85 1046 3.91 1131 3.89 1220 3.79 0643 0.74 1434 0.36 1521 0.21 1606 0.18 1650 0.28 1735 0.52 1823 0.86 1314 3.63 2051 4.56 2134 4.63 2217 4.58 2300 4.39 2345 4.08

1919 1.22

0421 0.46 0504 0.23 0547 0.08 0628 0.08 0038 5.93 0122 5.43 0211 4.83 1006 4.85 1051 5.07 1137 5.22 1222 5.25 0708 0.22 0749 0.49 0835 0.84 1617 0.13 1704 0.01 1750 0.04 1836 0.25 1309 5.17 1359 4.99 1456 4.77 2229 6.32 2312 6.39 2355 6.26

1922 0.63 2013 1.10 2115 1.57

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Topsy Turvy Weather Week 1 - In the third week of July temperatures overnight were all single figure values, with frost patches in the south.

Then the last week of July minimums were in the mid teens – off came the blankets! Emerald recorded a minimum of 15.9C last Wednesday, a massive 7C above average.

This was accompanied with some patchy light rain and remnants of a NWCB (North West Cloud Band).

Most towns recorded 1-2mm with Cler-

There is also decent sweet lip around the Hay Point area - bait up with fresh prawns or squid and you should be able to reel yourself in a pan-sized specimen.

The biggest Zac has seen of recent times weighed in around 2kg.

In close, a few school and spotty mackerel are just starting to appear.

You can also give queen fish a go on poppers around river mouths and in the bay.

Creeks are fishing slow but there are a few decent whiting, flathead and bream about the traps.

The occasional barra is also getting about but are a challenge and are only for people who are willing to put in the time and effort to coax them out.

Crabs are also slow but try the upper reaches of Murray plus Constant and Reliance Creeks.

If you have a good photo or fishing yarn send it through to our resident bait chucker-

angus.peacocke@shiftminer.com mont 7mm and Sunny Park 11mm being the standouts.

Then very warm to almost hot temperatures late last week with isolated late afternoon thundery showers and early fog patches.

Is this an early summer? No! Winter returns with a cold southerly blast Mon/Tue and overnight minimums return to single figures.

Jack Frost should be prominent in the south early week and maybe fog and mist later in the week in the east.

Not good for the boaties - fresh to strong (20-25 kts) southerly winds early in the week should ease by mid-week and the weekend could be a problem if a high ridges along the coast.

Week 2 - The SOI jumped to +18 i n late July.

This is the highest in 25 years and the eighth time it has been this high in 134 years of records.

The meteorological pundits are saying we are heading for a La Nina spring/summer.

Last year the value was +1.6 and the prognosis was an El Nino event.

We all know what happened with a dry bushfire spring and record summer floods, but still too early at this juncture to say.

What we can say is temperatures should warm gradually early in the week with another cooler change prior to the weekend.

Marine lovers should be wary.

OFF SHIFT 92nd EDITION. 2010

Airlie Beach goes completely crackers If you can arrange some time off work in mid August - head to Airlie Beach.

On the night of August 13, the skies above the tourist haven will explode in colour, for the annual Cracker Night.

For the past 12 years, Fantasea Adventure Cruising has held the night, which this year coincides with the first full day of racing in the Airlie Beach Race Week.

Families are being encouraged to head down to the foreshore early, to secure the best spots for a picnic and watch the spectacular display.

Face-painting, jumping castles and other activities and novelties will keep the kids entertained, with food stalls on hand to fill rumbling bellies.

It’s not a fireworks display for the fainthearted, with $20,000 worth of pyrotechnics sure to impress the crowd.

Last year, Cracker Night raised more than $10,000 for the Whitsunday Police Citizens Youth Club, and this year profits will be donated to local charities including the RACQ CQ Rescue Helicopter.

The Airlie Beach Race Week begins on August 11 and runs through August 19.

Now in its 21st year, the week has become known among yachties as the “tropical shirts regatta” - and there is some serious consideration given to the gaudiest team shirts possible.

If one week of sailing isn’t enough for you, you can double your luck with the Hamilton Island Race Week, which starts just a day later on August 20.

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Your Health 92nd EDITION. 2010

EXPERT ADVICE For those too busy or embarrassed to ask the important questions about their health Hi Tammy, In my workplace there is a real emphasis on fatigue and not pushing your limits. It means that within the workplace people are very much aware and will certainly refuse to do more hours then they should, yet when it comes to finishing work and driving three to four hours home after you’ve already been awake for 15 hours, there is no hesitation. It concerns me because I have had a family friends killed as a result of someone else being fatigued.

Can you highlight the signs for people to register they ARE fatigued. Yours sincerely, WIDE AWAKE Thank you Wide Awake, you have raised a really good point and sadly you have had to see the real effects of what fatigue can do to families and loved ones. This is the reason we are so focused on minimising fatigue in the work place, yet when people want to get to their destination sooner a lot of what is learnt goes out the window.

Fatigue can develop as a result of many reasons, these include: a new baby in the house, having a young family, feeling stressed, poor rostering, interrupted sleep, getting poor sleep during shift work rotations, depression, sleeping next to a snorer, and the list goes on.

Fatigue should not become normal for anyone, so if you are suffering from fatigue and you don’t know the cause, you should go and see your doctor because there can be many medical reasons which

can cause this problem. You really do need to rule out any possible medical conditions which could be causing this.

When it comes to driving, if you know you are already tired before you get behind the wheel, well, what can I say? You’re a bloody idiot - as the campaign goes!

It is your RESPONSIBILITY as a driver and as an adult to know when you should not be driving and to know whether or not you have had adequate rested sleep before going on such a long journey.

I know what it is like knowing you have a three hour drive ahead of you, so you try to get away early. But seriously, if you need to wind down the window and slap yourself in the face or load up on caffeine to make it to the other end... you need to stop, revive, sleep and survive!

Signs of fatigue • Poor concentration • Blurry vision • Low motivation • Poor hand to eye coordination • Slowed reflexes and responses • Dizziness • Poor attention span • Headaches and moodiness • Sore or aching muscles • Poor decision making • Impaired judgement • Appetite loss • Chronic tiredness or sleepiness • Short term memory problems Until next time, stay healthy, stay informed!

Tammy Farrell is a registered nurse, nutritionist and author of ‘The Real Man’s Toolbox – A DIY Health Manual for Men’. Tammy grew up in the Hunter Valley with two brothers in the local coal mines. In 2007, she started to give health talks in the Hunter, and that’s when she began compiling the book, helping hundreds of men answer questions about their bodies.

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Eggplant Parmigiana Serves 4-6 This is a fantastic vegetarian alternative to the traditional parmi that you get at the pub. Meat eaters will enjoy this dish as much as vegetarians, as it oozes with tomato and cheese making it the perfect comfort food during the winter months. Serve with salad and chips or a side of mash.

INGREDIENTS 3 large Eggplants Sea salt 4 Eggs, beaten Plain flour for coating Bread crumbs for coating Olive oil for shallow frying 2 x 440gms cans tomato puree 250 g fresh mozzarella sliced 100 g freshly grated parmesan Bay leaves METHOD Trim the stems and ends from the eggplant, cut lengthwise into half inch thick slices and place into a large colander. Sprinkle with course sea salt and let drain for about

1 hour. Rinse the eggplant under cold water, drain thoroughly and pat dry.

Whisk the eggs and a pinch of salt together in a large bowl. Coat each piece of eggplant in flour, shaking off the excess, then dip into the egg wash turning well to coat both sides. Drain well and then place in bread crumbs to coat evenly. Repeat for each piece of eggplant.

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MOTORSPORTS 92nd EDITION. 2010

Faster than a Motormania speeding bullet back in 2011 IT was 10 days of action that was bound to sate even the most enthusiastic of motor enthusiasts.

The inaugural Camco Group CQ Motormania has been and gone - and organisers say it will be back in 2011. The 10-day event saw everything from mud racing, kart racing, swap meets, street sprints to grid girls, from venues across CQ including Rockhampton, Bernaraby, Kabra and Yeppoon.

Organiser Ellie Traynor said the event had

IT’S called the Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC), and it’s twice as fast as a passenger jet.

It gets from zero to 1609 kilometres per hour in 42 seconds - that means it covers four and a half football fields in one second.

In case you’re wondering, that is literally faster than a speeding bullet.

The people behind the jet-powered rocket car are hoping to break the world land speed record.

They are only competing against themselves, the same group designed the Thrust SSC, which has held the record at 1227.99 km/h since 1997.

Last week a full-scale model of the Bloodhound SSC was shown for the first time at

exceeded expectations.

“We were hoping to get 10,000 people to the 10 days and the number exceeded that by far,” she told local media.

“It’s been quite amazing, the spirit shown, the clubs working together and the support from the community have been extraordinary.”

Check out some of the hot wheels that were on display.

the Farnborough Air Show in England.

The pencil-shaped car will be powered by three engines - a Eurojet EJ200 jet engine, a hybrid rocket, and a 588kW V12 engine which is used to drive the 6.5-tonne Bloodhound around at low speeds.

If you’re wondering what it’s like to drive, the answer is not easy, its turning circle is about 10 times bigger than a Holden Commodore - that’s 120 metres or wider than a football field.

It’s hoped the rocket car will be finished sometime in 2012, when the current land-speed record holder Andy Green will drive it through the Hakskeen Pan desert in South Africa.

“Its turning circle is about 10 times bigger than a Holden Commodore - that’s 120 metres or wider than a football field.”

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MONEY MATTERS 92nd EDITION. 2010

Agents shut down amid uncertainty

A SWEEPING consolidation is occurring across the central Queensland real estate sector, as boom times return to normal and a federal election increases uncertainty.

While house prices have fallen back slightly, the big problem for real estate agents is the volume being sold on the market has slowed.

Real estate agents rely on sales commission to get their income, so when the number of sales falls it directly effects their profitability.

One real estate agent operating in the Whitsundays region, who preferred not to be named, said things have really been tough.

“Yes it’s been awful these last few months,” she said.

“Three local agencies have all closed their doors and it looks as though a couple in Proserpine might be doing the same and another agent in Cannonvale as well.”

In Rockhampton and Mackay most agencies have had to reduce staff, and there have been some business closures while others have merged to survive the lean times.

Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) Rockhampton zone chairman, Noel Livingstone, said the mining tax debate stalled a lot of local business.

“When the mining tax was first mooted, we lost all investment from the mining areas straight away,” he said.

“Since there has been a resolution, those

investors have not come back and I think they are adopting a wait and see attitude, until the election is sorted.”

Mr Livingstone said in the 28 years he had been in real estate there was always uncertainty during an election campaign, and people stop purchasing until after the poll.

“Houses are still selling , but the volumes and prices are down from the highs we saw in late 2007, and people are just waiting for the election to get resolved, and they will realise that life goes on,” he said.

However Mr Livingstone said it’s not the first time real estate agents have needed to consolidate, and it does present some opportunities.

He said those businesses who can survive the down times will emerge on the other side with less competition.

“I think it’s a fair observation, and just indicative of the cycles of the years gone by.”

“We rely so so much on the mining sector and, as I said, I have been in real estate for 28 years and every time there is an election people stop buying houses.”

“The mining tax is just another part of it.”

“Houses are still selling, but the volumes and prices are down from the highs we saw in late 2007, and people are just waiting for the election to get resolved, and they will realise that life goes on.”

More affordable mining town homes A new planning regime will mean more than 900 new homes will be built in Roma, Moranbah and Blackwater, according to the Queensland government.

“Urban Development Areas” (UDA) have been declared in the three towns, and the Premier, Anna Bligh, said most of the housing will be afforable.

“Declaring UDAs will enable this affordable housing to be fast tracked using accelerated planning powers,” Ms Bligh said.

“This will be done in full co-operation with local councils which have asked for our help to deal with housing stress.”

In Moranbah, the UDA will cover a 1220 hectare area, including large tracts of vacant state government, mining industry, some private land holdings and the future growth area to the south-west of Goonyella Road.

“Within this UDA there has been land identified which could be released within a year to deliver 200 to 300 homes,” Ms Bligh said.

In Blackwater, the UDA will cover 25 hectares of state government-owned land, which Ms Bligh said could deliver 380 new homes and provide affordable housing for the next decade.

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“It will enable people with a range of incomes to buy or rent, put down roots, and feel a sense of community,” she said.

It’s a similar sized site in Roma, bounded

by Bowen, Cottell and McDowall Streets, and opposite the Roma General Hospital.

“This is a great location just 1.5 kilometres west of the Roma town centre and

offers a tremendous opportunity to inject up to 300 additional homes into the region,” said Ms Bligh.

The project will now be run by the Urban Land Development Authority which aims to deliver two thirds of the homes at a price affordable to rent by households with a median annual income of $55,000.

“It will enable people with a range of incomes to buy or rent, put down roots, and feel a sense of community.”

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MONEY MATTERS 92nd EDITION. 2010

Are you missing $580,000?

DID you and your family ever live in Bohle, near Townsville?

If you did, you could have more than $580,000 owing to you in â&#x20AC;&#x153;lost moneyâ&#x20AC;?.

What is lost money I hear you ask?

Well, it is quite literally money in old bank accounts, life policies or company dividends that you have lost or misplaced.

The total amount of unclaimed money in Australia has risen to a record $60 million, with 20,000 new individuals or companies added to the list in the past year.

Here in Queensland, there is $69 million waiting to be claimed by 113,185 people.

One former Bohle resident tops the chart, with $580,000 sitting around unclaimed.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) handles the lost money register, and is urging everyone to carry out a simple online search - even if you have done one in the past. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve changed addresses frequently, had a number of bank accounts, life insurance policies or different share holdings,

there might be money waiting to be claimed by you,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said ASICâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Delia Rickard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There might also be money to be claimed by you under the deceased estate of somebody who has died and left you money.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Searching for the lost money is quick and easy and you could soon find money that you had long forgotten about.â&#x20AC;?

To search, simply log into ASICâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s free online database at www.fido.gov.au/ unclaimedmoney and type in your name.

If you do find some money that you think might be yours, you will need to prove the money belongs to you or that you are the beneficiary of the money.

For help with claiming your money contact ASICâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Unclaimed Monies Infoline directly on 1300 300 630 or email infoline@ asic.gov.au during business hours.

You may receive a letter from a company offering to help you claim your lost money, but these companies will charge a fee for this service.

Try searching yourself through ASICâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unclaimed money database first as it is easy to use and free.

The two tables show the state breakdown of lost money, and which suburbs have the highest amounts of unclaimed money.

Happy hunting!

State

Number of records

Amount ($million)

% change from 09

State

Suburb

$ Amount

Owner

Category

ACT

12,820

9.11

up 7.9%

ACT

Canberra

$ 74,544.57

Individual

Bank Account

NSW

308,496

229.32

up 6%

NSW

Dolans Bay

$ 708,777.38

Individual

Bank Account

NT

10,440

6.00

up 6.8%

NT

Nhulunbuy

$ 55,363.90

Individual

Bank Account

QLD

113,185

69.14

up 3%

QLD

Bohle

$ 587,587.87

Individual

Bank Account

SA

44,108

22.76

down 4.8%

SA

Adelaide

$ 170,632.12

Company

Shares

TAS

12,146

5.45

down 5.4%

TAS

Hobart

$ 71,270.14

Individual

Bank Account

VIC

184,165

130.33

up 9%

VIC

Melbourne

$ 481,199.44

Individual

Bank Account

WA

62,786

45.29

up 17%

WA

Carlisle

$ 992,750.14

Individual

Bank Account

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