The changing face of Australia, mine jobs to go to overseas workers.

Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, one of India's richest men, flew to Queensland at the weekend for fresh talks on Abbott Point coal terminal near Bowen.



THE booming mining industry could mean foreign workers will be flown directly by jumbo jet into outback Queensland as the state scrambles to fill massive job shortages.

Several mining houses are in advanced negotiations with the Federal Government to replace the individual 457 visas with bulk temporary migration agreements to bring overseas labour into outback mines.

The proposed Enterprise Migration Agreements would establish a special type of labour agreement to address skill vacancies in major resource projects with capital expenditure greater than $2 billion and a peak workforce of 1500.

Federal Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's office told The Courier-Mail a decision was pending on a confidential submission by one mining house. Other miners also have submissions in the pipeline awaiting the decision, a spokeswoman for Mr Bowen confirmed.



Indian billionaire Gautam Adani is emerging as a key player in Queensland, completing the purchase of Rockhampton beef baron Graeme Acton's Moray Downs cattle station for about $110 million, which sits over about one-third of the total resource in the Galilee Basin.

Outback Queensland is to get a new airport, railway line and even a new town to cater for the thousands of workers needed to open up the mineral-rich Galilee Basin.

While retail and tourism sectors languish, the mining boom is putting massive demands on the state's workforce.

Coal miners are lobbying the Federal Government to allow fly-in unskilled workers from overseas as they grapple with a predicted shortage of 40,000 new employees in the resources sector by 2020.

One of India's richest men, Mr Adani, flew in to Queensland at the weekend for fresh talks on Abbott Point coal terminal near Bowen and his latest acquisition of Moray Downs cattle station.

Mr Adani, 49, who is worth $10 billion, has just bought Rockhampton beef baron Graeme Acton's Moray Downs cattle station for about $110 million.

Moray Downs, which sits over about one-third of the total resource in the Galilee Basin, would also be the site for a mining town for 2500 workers, 500km southwest of Bowen.

Mr Adani has plans for a runway, airstrip, a 500km railway line and Australia's biggest operating coal mine by 2022. His infrastructure plans will be India's single biggest investment in the country.

Mr Acton told The Courier-Mail the rural sector faced big challenges in balancing national food security issues with the rush into mining.

"This part of the world will be boom town," he said. "But we don't want it to get like Russia where we used to joke they'd have to pay us in vodka because they let prime agricultural land go to waste or ruin in the rush into the resources industry."

Respected cattle king Peter Hughes said there was a two-speed economy at work in the bush.

"These mines are like a cancer eating up all the productive cattle country but they pay good money for them," the Mackay grazier said.

"And I'm a great believer in bringing in as many Filipinos and Indians to do all the start-up infrastructure. There is nobody else out here to do the work."

Adani did a $3 billion deal with Linc Energy's Peter Bond for the rights to the tenement, negotiating $500 million payment up front and $2.5 billion over 20 years in royalties.

They paid $1.8 billion last April for Abbot Point terminal

and there's no doubt the scale of the projects means workers from overseas and within Australia will be required.

Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart, who sold her Galilee prospects to India's GVK group, has been vocal in advocating a Northern Special economic zone from Bowen to Port Hedland.

Clive Palmer, the other big player in the Galilee Basin with ChinaFirst, is also behind the push.

It is creating fresh tensions with unions concerned about the implications of setting up "free trade zones" that employ 100 per cent foreign labour flown in direct from overseas.

Minerals Council of Australia acting chief executive Chris Fraser said no one had an Enterprise Migration Agreement yet.

"It is too difficult. The rules are so tight and the unions have killed them off and strangled them, so we are yet to see one emerge," he said.

Paki's Mining QLD, Chinese Mining WA whats next ?? A PM that tells the truth and actually DOESN'T sell
our arses out from under us, that'll be the bloody day

There goes OHS out the window



Bowen's new Taxi Service



Geez Jason even you get a new uniform mate



Hope you sleep with one eye open MANGO BAT, but cant see how ya can sleep at all ya TRAITOR

I wonder if they have to do all the mine courses? Black coal tickets, medicals, resume's etc like i would have to...

May aswell sell of our minerals to some country who burns coal like its going out of fashion...
Wonder if they pay carbon tax?
I fuckin hate coal mines... What happened to solar, wind power and the future for our kids on this planet?
Why send the immigrants back ? Just get the boat people and send em straight out there to start digging on 100kor more a year and send it back to India so they can open more sweat shops..
Atleast there will be Quickey marts or 7/11's all over the desert to get a frosty slurpee . Sounds like our GOVT has a brain freeze....
Sorry if i sound sarcastic but i hate to see the Average Joe Bloggs struggle, and get taxed to the assholes, and then have our jobs undercut by foreigners.
I used to work in the Asphalt game 15 years ago for $25 an hour, then the Kiwi's come over and worked for $16 and stuffed the industry.
I can see it happening here with cheap labor, and it angers me...

You also need to keep your eyes on our farm land. The chinese are buying up big time and our lovable Federal government is letting them do it.
It all comes down to the $$$$$$$$. That's all that counts these days. The people of this country are nothing until they stand up and say enuff is enuff.
but we have an election coming in the near future and as usual, lots of promises and the BIG CARROT will win the day.
It won't matter who gets in, it'll all be about $$$$$$$ and f##k the people.
so ask yourself this, "Will we the people ever learn from our mistakes". I doubt it.

hi Bignuggs, i think you made a mistake in spelling, its feral NOT federal...........

my apologies. I'll now call them "the bunch of fuckwits who govern Australia"

Bignuggs wrote: my apologies. I'll now call them "the bunch of fuckwits who govern Australia"

Sorry Bignuggs. Another mistake. It should read

"...the bunch of fuckwits who f##k Australia"

As they say, the people get the government they deserve.
Well, f##k me, what did we do to deserve the bunch of lying, cheating morons we have now?

As much as I'd love to fire the first shot, I hope I'm dead when the revolution starts.

Robert

F*ck me, no more apologies

"The bunch of f*ckwits who F*ck the land of the long weekend" and I love my long weekends

Considering no one voted in Ragga MANGO BAT, How the f##k did she get in? Any other country and the people would have rioted... Not here were apathy reigns, we sit back and cop the carbon tax aswell....

And Australia will keep on gettin FISTED while we have a back stabbing system where no public referendum
needs to be called for shit like when MANGO BAT machete'd Krud in the back - then again a bloke with a bit of nous
would have kept the prick under close watch like the Roman Caesar's did :?: one bit of suspicion and boom!
thrown to the bloody lions.

Did i hear RIOT ? need a new quad and telly.

The MANGO BAT is like german porn. Shitting on our chests every chance she can get.

How fucken rude to import working. Shouldn't we be training them up here. or atleast putting in schemes to train new people.

Only some short years ago they cut back on apprenticeships and training people in the building trades and guess what happened. We ended up with a shortage of brickies and builders of all trades so ya don't need to guess where they got them from.
We are shit on by overpaid fuckwits who sit in houses paid for by the taxpayer.
The fuckwits and the houses have names but I'm not sayin what they are

They sure won't go back home when job ends. For every worker they will bring in 2 extended families.

Get used to all the mom and pop stores/hotels selling out to them.

Hope you like curry, bedbugs, and filth!

( A CHINESE government-controlled mining giant has spent $213 million buying up 43 farms so it can explore for coal outside the NSW township of Gunnedah. )

What concerns me is there letting them buy up huge chunks of Australia. The NSW government also approved this companies exploration permitts at a cost of $300 million.

Fark Me! At the rate China is buying up huge chunks of NSW,we will all have to learn to speak Mandarin in the next 10 years. That suits K RUDD and the MANGO BAT just fine,they are already Commy Bastards.

Hi All
ANZ just canned 1000 workers, surely they have the smarts to be retrained for these jobs I bet they would be greatful in these times.

The way I see it the only way to stop this crap is to vote "Bob Katter for PM"
he is the only politition with the kahuna's to get the job done, for those that doubt him, have a read of hi parlimentary speaches and the stuff he stands for & against, the stuff he stands against is the most important eg free trade agreement, bannana imports, bacon imports, I can bet you he stands against labor imports too.
So to me the only road forward for this great country that I emigrated to in 1982 with my parents with the immigration visa, is for Bob Katter to be at the helm.
So to all you passionate Aussie's stand behind a Brother.
cheers
Lee

they locked the thread i created on the other forum. so i'll post the video in here where i know it won't be locked.

enjoy the MANGO BAT.

Goldbait wrote:

they locked the thread i created on the other forum. so i'll post the video in here where i know it won't be locked.

enjoy the MANGO BAT.

Ahhhh Good old Jefgold THE PRO MANGO Wiggle has swung his tube of "Blemish Cream" again and locked a
palatable and pertinent thread, i have a sneaky feeling even Lettuce would be to strong a flavour for the
velvet lined mouth of the "Grand Knitter" imagine goin bush with the likes of that
how boring and flaccid the camp-fire chatter would be and god forbid if you should say
FUK FUCKEDY FUK FUK FUK

HaHa too funny Pete. :rolf:

That Knitting club forum has had the butt fall outa it. I only stick around to stir sh!t these days,and end up getting a rap across the knuckles from the Mods via PM.
They dont want to sack me or there wont be anyone left.
I would rather poke myself in the eye with a burning stick than spend a painfull evening around the campfire with that lot.
Most likey just get really pissed and make an A-hole of myself......that will learn em!

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