John McCarthy
The Courier-Mail
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Adani mining jobs: Company starts search for workers
ADANI says protest groups have failed to stop the development of the central Queensland megamine. → Read More
Queensland economy: CommSec State of the States October 2017
QUEENSLAND has fallen below South Australia to record the third worst economic performance in the CommSec state of the states report. → Read More
This is Adani: Megamine owner releases new advertisement
ADANI will spend almost 1.5 million trying to dispel the myths that have developed around its 21 billion coal project in central Queensland. → Read More
Test results show only trace amounts of coal found at Dingo Beach off Abbot Point
THE outrage from activists that Adani had polluted beaches near its Abbot Point coal port may have been an exaggeration. → Read More
Native title amendments the final hurdle for Adani megamine
THE Adani megamine is expected to be signed and sealed within a fortnight and the first of up to 600 workers will start to fill its Townsville office next month. → Read More
Severe thunderstorm warning for southeast Queensland
A SEVERE thunderstorm warning has been issued for southeast Queensland. → Read More
Cage Fight: Are we living in a bludgers’ paradise
YOUR bare-knuckle brawlers John McCarthy and Des Houghton are back for another week of political fisticuffs. → Read More
Cage Fight: Will the Billy Gordon controversy spark an early election?
YOUR bare-knuckle brawlers John McCarthy and Des Houghton are back for another week of political fisticuffs. → Read More
Warning on Donald Trump’s pledge for 45 per cent lift in tariffs on goods from China
BHP Billiton Chairman Jac Nasser has warned the whole world will be in complete trauma if US President-elect Donald Trump went ahead with a 45 per cent lift in tariffs on goods from China. → Read More
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says government ‘the quiet achiever’
YOUR bare-knuckle brawlers John McCarthy and Des Houghton are back for another week of political fisticuffs. → Read More
Mining industry appalled by failure of health screening for black lung after 11 miners diagnosed
THE mining industry has said it has been appalled by the failure of health screening systems for pneumoconiosis (black lung) after 11 Queensland coal mine workers were discovered to have the crippling disease. → Read More
Federal election 2016: Wyatt Roy refuses to accept defeat in Longman
JUNIOR Minister Wyatt Roy is looking like Queensland’s biggest casualty of the election campaign. → Read More
Queensland economy: Youth doing it tough in bush as job openings dry up
ABOUT one in three young people in Queenslands Outback are unemployed with the rate almost doubling in the past year, according to Queensland Treasury figures. → Read More
Queensland economy: State Government won’t budge over asset sales
THE Palaszczuk Government will not budge in its shyrefusal to sell income-producing assets, regardless of new analysis revealing the move could create more jobs than the mining boom. → Read More
Queensland economy: Unemployment data causing concern
THE Palaszczuk Government has expressed concerns over a dramatic spike in unemployment showing 15,000 people lost their jobs in Queensland last month and the jobless rate climbing to 6.1 per cent. → Read More
Jobs: Unemployment down in Brisbane’s ‘battler’ suburbs
UNEMPLOYMENT is tumbling in many of Brisbane’s “battler belt’’ suburbs while tourism continues to make huge improvements to the economy along the coast. → Read More
Adani pursuing possible Queensland solar energy project
AFTER six years of frustration in trying to develop Australia’s biggest coalmine, Adani is now planning to build a solar power station in Queensland. → Read More
Adani to restart work on Queensland megamine within months of receiving mining lease
ADANI could restart work on its central Queensland mega-mine within months of being granted its mining lease. → Read More
Adani’s Carmichael mega mine set for environmental approval
THE 16.5 billion Adani Carmichael coal mine has cleared a significant hurdle with the State Government granting environmental authority for the massive project to proceed. → Read More
BHP Billiton has credit rating downgraded
THE collapse of the mining industry and the downturn in China has gained its biggest victim after BHP Billiton announced this morning that its credit rating had been downgraded by Standard and Poors. → Read More