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MORE than two-thirds of miners who are injured on the job and can’t return to the industry could not make common law com-pensation claims under suggested changes to WorkCover Queensland.

The insurer has reported sharp losses over the past two years and the Attorney-General has released a discussion paper on ways to fix it.

That discussion paper lists several recom-mendations by WorkCover’s board, includ-ing increasing employer premiums and limiting the number of compensation claims by increasing the eligibility threshold.

But the CFMEU’s Jim Valery says the second option would be disastrous for min-ing and industry workers.

“This is a real issue for people, workers compensation has the potential to impact on every single Queenslander,” he said.

“But if this change went ahead it would have major implications for manual work-ers and that means miners and other people who work in industry.”

The discussion paper suggests lifting the claims threshold to 10 to 15 per cent total impairment, which would knock out a huge number of claims.

The CFMEU calculates that of 85 per-manently injured industry workers over the past year - 67 per cent would not have been eligible to make a common law compensa-tion claim, under the proposed change.

The situation is worse for miners than most other workers because often injuries result in them being unable to return to the industry because of strict “fit for work” criteria.

For example, a shoulder injury that would not prevent a secretary from return-ing to work, would exclude a miner from being able to get their job back.

If you’re wondering what injuries fall into the 10 to 15 per cent threshold - it includes shoulder, knee and back injuries that are commonplace among manual workers.

At the moment, these changes are only

suggestions that have been put forward to the State Government, and no final deci-sion has been made.

Stakeholders have until next week to sub-mit their response to the discussion paper, and several people involved in the process have told Shift Miner they believe the Attor-ney-General has an open mind on the issue.

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ANNA Bligh appears to be a woman bent on pushing through the QR sale come hell or high water.

Frankly, in the last 10 days she’s seen enough resistance to make most pause for thought.

Firstly, there was the large and loud pro-tests outside State Parliament, where unions made it clear how they feel about the sell off.

Then 13 of the state’s coal companies got together to offer the government a second option - for them to jointly own the coal chain tracks.

But the Premier has point-blank refused to even consider it as an option - ruling it out before she has even been told what industry would be prepared to pay.

Instead she is full steam ahead with plans to sell QR National as a vertical-ly integrated model - meaning it would include both the track and freight business.

Five investment banks have now been named as the joint managers of the ini-tial public offering (IPO), they’ll charge

somewhere in the order of $50 million for their part in the float that’s expected to bring in upwards of $3 billion to the state’s depleted coffers.

Despite all the action, Ms Bligh some-how found the time to hammer coal companies for apparently enjoying the luxury of having their transport arrange-ments subsidised by QR for decades.

The Member for Rockhampton Rob-ert Schwarten went one step further and described them as “bludging off taxpay-ers” in a radio interview.

Interesting, when you consider coal miners pay $3 billion a year in state roy-alties and $1.7 billion in freight charges.

The strangest thing about the whole episode has been the Premier’s complete resistance to even consider the option of an industry buy-in.

No-one even knows how much coal miners would pay for the tracks - so how can she rule it out so categorically?

It just doesn’t make sense.

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PAR OFFThe annual Coal Industry Charity Golf weekend has been postponed.

Organisers say they were unable to run the event for its designed purpose - to raise funds for local charities.

But the fundraiser will be back in 2011 - on a date to be determined......................................................................

ROAD SAFETY FUNDSThe Mackay Road Accident Action Group (RAAG) is looking for sponsors to help it continue its work in the region.

RAAG has taken a key role in working with government agencies, local companies and community groups in road safety.

The Group doesn’t receive any government funding and the campaigns are run by a part-timer co-ordinator who is assisted by volunteers, local businesses and government representatives.

If your business can help, call Graeme Ransley on 0428 522 577......................................................................

SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL UNISThe resources sector across Australia has got together to push for more federal government funding for regional universities.

In a written submission, several industry bodies have outlined why more money is needed to deliver quality teaching and learning outcomes.

They point to research that shows regional universities boost local retention rates - and encourage more indigenous people to go onto tertiary education.

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AFTER the Queenslanders swept all before them in New South Wales last year, the national mines rescue competition is heading back home for 2010.

Anglo’s Grasstree mine in the Bowen Basin will host the national finals in Octo-ber this year.

The mines rescue competition is a hotly contested series of rescue challenges where crews from various mine sites compete against each another.

Think Surf Lifesaving - but on a mine site. Last year BMA’s Gregory Crinum crew

took out the national title in New South Wales, despite losing to Rio Tinto’s Kestrel

crew at the state titles, and Peabody’s North Goonyella team in the local championship.

Components of the competition include: underground team strategy, mines rescue proce-dures, first aid, fire fighting, equipment skills, under-ground procedures and mines rescue theory.

Each team is made up of a team captain and six members.

While the competitive form of mines rescue is partly sport, like surf lifesaving it has its ori-gins in a very serious and important function - rescuing people following a mine site incident.

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DESPITE contributing billions of dollars in royalties every year, the coal industry has been attacked as “bludging off taxpayers” by a key State Government Minister as ten-sions over the QR sale escalate.

Member for Rockhampton Robert Schwarten made the comments on local radio recently; and his sentiment was mir-rored by the Premier Anna Bligh.

“I think what you can see from the com-plaints of the coal companies is verifica-tion of the fact that Queensland taxpayers have, in effect, been subsidising their trans-port arrangements for several decades,” Ms Bligh told a media conference.

“This will put an end to it.” These incendiary remarks came after 13

coal companies got together and announced they wanted to jointly buy QR’s track assets.

“These subsidy claims represent an extraordinary reaction to a request from the coal industry for the government to examine an alternative offer to buy the central Queens-

land coal track network,” said the Queensland Resources Council’s Michael Roche.

But that is an option the Premier has ruled out before she’s even seen the details or knows how much they’re prepared to pay.

“Surely it is in the interests of Queensland taxpayers to have on the table an alternative offer from the coal industry, which may not only produce an attractive short-term return to the state but also deliver a superior long-term result in improving the performance of the export supply chain,” Mr Roche questioned.

Coal companies are unhappy with the government’s decision to float QR National as a vertically integrated rail business - meaning the package includes

the track and the freight business. They are worried it will mean less compe-

tition and in turn that will mean less invest-ment in increasing the capacity of the track.

Industry has vowed to push ahead with putting together its proposal, despite the Premier’s refusal to consider it.

While that happens, the State Govern-ment is pushing ahead with the planned initial public offering (IPO) of QR Nation-al which is expected to raise somewhere between $3 to $7 billion.

Last week it announced five invest-ment banks - Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs JBWere, Merrill Lynch, RBS Morgans and UBS - will manage the sale.

It has been reported their fees for the sale will be somewhere in the order of $50 million.

To top off the State Government’s woes - its not just coal companies who are off side about the sale.

Hundreds of workers protested outside Parliament House in Brisbane last week, as part of union protests on the issue.

Anger over QR sale boils over

THE local coal mining sector is expected to return to the frenetic state it was in during 2007, with the establishment of a new contract coal price of more than $US200 a tonne.

BHP and Japanese company JFE Hold-ings - the country’s second largest steel mak-er - agreed on the new price which is about 55

per cent higher than prices agreed to last year. In short, three months into 2010 and the coal

price has clawed back more than half the losses it sustained during the bleak period which fol-lowed the 2008-09 global financial crisis.

Possibly of greater signifiacance to the local industry is that the new price is also

the first price to be set under a new quarter-ly coking coal export contract.

Big coal miners and overseas steel mak-ers have, up until now, been using an annu-al price contract.

Under this system, an agreed proportion of the coal expected to be sold in any giv-

en year was sold at a price negotiated eve-ry 12 months - regardless of how supply and demand might change.

Under the new arrangement the contract price will be negotiated every three months.

The move to quarterly negotiations for BHP is expected to create immediate benefits for its BMA owned central Queensland mines because contracted coal prices have been sell-ing at a large discount to spot coal prices.

Spot prices refer to the price for the coal that is not sold under contract.

Businesses associated with the local min-ing industry will be watching carefully to see how the new contracted price for coal affects the behaviour of mining companies.

According to one person in the industri-al sector - the price spike on its own won’t improve business directly.

However, if it transalates into a large increase in production then there will be big benefits for local business.

ENERGY giant Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina have made a $3.3 billion bid to takeover Arrow Energy.

Arrow Energy has the biggest reserves of coal seam gas in Queensland, and in fact Shell already owns 30 per cent of its tenements.

Shell and PetroChina are offering a $4.45-a-share cash offer, but at the time of print Arrow had not made a decision either way.

Business analysts say the race is now on

to develop Gladstone’s LNG industry. Shell has been a background player in

developments, but the takeover move signi-fies it’s ready to take on a major role.

Other big players with plans for LNG projects at Curtis Island include Cono-coPhillips, Petronas, and BG Group.

Shell has announced Ann Pickard will head Australian production and exploration - she is currently the head of the company’s African operations.

NORTH Goonyella workers have reached agreement on a two-year pay deal with their employer Peabody Energy after more than 12 months of negotiations.

The pay dispute at the mine near Moran-bah climaxed last December when Peabody locked out about 80 workers from the site, following a series of strikes.

The mining union says the deal is a compromise. “The end result maintained the agree-

ment intact in most of its form with modest wage increases of 4.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent the second year,” CFMEU rep Glenn Power told ABC radio.

“That’s with back pay, an enhanced bonus scheme, a new $15,000 residential allowance, improvements on superannua-tion and obviously a payment of eight hours overtime to attend statutory medical exami-nations on RDOs.”

“These subsidy claims represent an extraordinary reaction to a request from the coal industry for the government to examine an alternative offer to buy

the central Queensland coal track network.”

“BHP and Japanese company JFE Holdings - the country’s second largest steel maker -

agreed on the new price which is about 55 per cent higher than

prices agreed to last year.”

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WHEN the price for coal in Australia fell nearly 70

per cent last year, miners held their collective breath

in anticipation of widespread mine shutdowns.

However, with the bene�t of a weak Australian

dollar ($AUD) and a new coal price that was still

historically high, most miners held onto their jobs.

Today there is a less obvious, but possibly more dan-

gerous, threat lurking in the shadows - the high $AUD.

Most of us understand that if the $AUD is high

when you travel overseas you can buy more of the

local currency because each dollar is more valuable.

But if the $AUD is high it also means the price

we get for exported commodities is a lot less – and

this has already directly cost jobs in the coal industry.

Vale last week announced the closure of its

Broadlea coal mine meaning the end to between

41 and 80 full time jobs.

The high dollar and your job

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A CENTRAL Queensland mine manag-er has been awarded the prestigious QRC Resources Award for Women alongside the CEO of a Brisbane-based consultancy firm.

Those at BMA’s Norwich Park mine know Jennifer Mackenzie as the min-ing manager - she’s the first woman to be appointed to that role within the company.

She’s also the first person from a process-ing background to be appointed as a mining manager within BMA.

Ms Mackenzie joined Uniden Group’s Susan Denk to receive the award in front of 600 industry peers at an Internation-al Women’s Day breakfast in Brisbane last week.

“As a woman in my current position, I have the ability to not only positively influ-ence those coming after me, but also set the standard by which all in the industry should expect professional women to conduct themselves,” said Ms Mackenzie.

“I am very aware of my responsibility to

myself, those in my team, those who believe in me and support me every day and those who have provided me with some very spe-cial opportunities in my career.”

The other winner, Uniden’s Ms Denk, is a petroleum engineer with more than 15 years experience in the energy and infra-structure sections.

In the early 1990s she was possibly the first female engineer to work in the Jackson oilfields in south-west Queensland and the first woman to work offshore for the giant oil and gas service provider Schlumberger in the Java Sea.

“It is important to me to play a role in creating greater options, not just for my own daughters, but for all bright young women out there who I have contact with through my mentoring, and interface with in my involvement with education,” said Ms Denk.

QRC chief executive Michael Roche said the award and breakfast were impor-tant elements of the council’s strategy to increase the proportion of women in the resources sector.

“With women making up only 14 per-cent of our members’ employees, and a skills shortage looming, we need to contin-ue to pull out all stops to attract and retain women in our sector,” he said.

WINNER’S DANCE: Susan Denk (left) and Jennifer Mackenzie (right) do a winner’s dance at the RAW Awards

THE New South Wales government has issued a warning to miners and mining com-panies that workers are being exposed to levels of coal dust higher than the accepta-ble limits set in 2007.

At the end of that year, the government introduced new rules regarding coal dust, and how it was managed on site.

The core elements of the new require-ments were that coal dust had to be meas-ured and a maximum limit of 3 milligrams per cubic metre was set.

Since that date, measurement of coal dust has revealed that many mine sites, par-ticularly around Newcastle, are in breach of that limit.

“The results to date indicate that improved dust control measures will be required in the underground coal mines of NSW,” the department alert read.

“Of concern are results relating to longwall mines in the Newcastle and Hunter district.”

From a total of 303 longwall samples tak-en, nearly 40 per cent of the readings were

in breach of the 10mg standard. For other non-longwall mines, about 20 per

cent of the 800 plus samples were in breach. Fortunately for open cut mines and Coal

Handling and Preparation Plants the 10mg lim-it was only breached in 2 per cent of samples.

In the same week that these results were released, a Hunter Valley doctor has told ABC radio that he is concerned the high incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases among local kids is linked to coal dust and power station emissions.

GP and obstetrician Tuan Au told the ABC he has begun a long term study to see if there is a link between coal dust and childhood asthma.

“The government needs to monitor those small particles for the benefit of the community,” Dr Au said.

Back on mine sites, the NSW Govern-ment has suggested the main reason for the high dust readings is that there is inade-quate ventilation and water or dust control.

Other contributing factors

A new slurry ash monitor has been developed to stop coal waste and minimise the environmental impact of tailings dams.

Newcastle-based TUNRA Clean Coal has developed the monitor, and after trials in the Hunter Valley the device could soon be on the market.

It can be installed to any type of slurry feed, and can adapt to any pre-existing communications network.

The company trials show that a CHPP which operates about 6,000 hours per year, with a feed of 1,000 tonnes of low grade thermal coal per hour and a fines feed of 200 tonnes per hour, the average tails ash was increased by 20 percentage points, which increased the coal yield by 51 tonnes.

Researchers are also spruiking the monitor’s environmental credentials, because it means less coal ends up in tailings dams.

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ALMOST three-quarters of the 19 haul truck drivers at Anglo Coal’s Foxleigh mine near Middlemount are women, winning the mine recognition at the recent Resources Awards for Women.

The mine has won Best Company Initia-tive for its “Hot Seat Crew” campaign which provided women with a genuine entry-level opening into the resources industry.

The campaign has launched the min-ing careers of 15 women who had no prior experience.

“The introduction of flexible working hours, primarily in day shift, has resulted in close to 75 per cent of the 19 person produc-tion crew being female,” said Anglo’s head of human resources David Diamond.

“Our Hot Seat crew members now have much sought after operator skills and work experience, and are directly responsible for increasing our equipment utilisation and production rates by one hour each day per truck and excavator.”

Anglo’s Dawson mine’s production

trainee Patricia Rankin was presented with a highly commended in the Opera-tor category - for her work in encourag-ing women from Woorabinda to work in non-traditional roles.

“My interest in joining the mining industry has never been a case of remu-neration being the major attraction, rather it was the opportunity to be a positive role model for my children and other women in the community,” she said.

Hot Seat means more women driving trucks

Trade CaTegory: WinnerKerry Brisbane Electrical Team Leader Xstrata Skills Centre Mount Isa

runner upJuanita Grillmeier HR Advisor – Training and Development BMA

operaTor CaTegory: WinnerJan Simpson Open cut examiner /assistant shotfirer

runner upKylie Kerr Leading Hand/Supervisor Peak Downs Mine Leighton Contractors

Highly Commended Patricia Rankin Production Trainee Anglo American Metallurgical Coal Dawson Mine and

Louise Burridge Washplant Operator BMA Gregory mine.

Junior CaTegory: WinnerJessica Murphy Emerald State High School

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BesT Company iniTiaTive CaTegoryWinnerAnglo American Metallurgical Coal Foxleigh Mine Hot Seat Crew

runner upThiess Tarong Coal Project – local community training to operate haul trucks

Highly CommendedBMA – employment of senior women’s adviser

oTHer raW Winners:Two women tied for industry’s best

IN THE HOT SEAT: Some of Foxleigh’s Hot Seat crew Tania Saunders, Nicole Revie and Natalie Markey, and Dawson Mine production trainee Patricia Rankin

“The introduction of flexible working hours, primarily in day shift, has resulted in close to 75 per cent of

the 19 person production crew being female.”

* Isolation or capture of dust at source via sealing of transfer points, BSL, crusher

* Operating water sprays at appropriate locations and as near as possible to the point of breakage with sufficient water volumes, pressure and correct sizing of water jets/droplets

* Ventilation of the correct quantities and at the right location

* Advance ventilation ducting/brattice to mine ventilation standard

* Regular maintenance of dust suppression equipment

* Operating positioning, job rotation and automation

* Control of dust levels along travelling roads

* Respiratory protection by personal pro-tective equipment

[Information from Department of Industry and Investment NSW]

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No compo for injured miners?

But not everyone is in agreement about the dire straits of WorkCover’s financial position.

“We think the problem isn’t as big as it appears,” said Mr Valery.

“The figures were gathered when the whole world was under the cloud of the Global Financial Crisis which was the big-gest, scariest monster we were supposed to have seen in a long time.”

“At a time like that, the number of claims is going to be higher than at more stable times, so we think those figures should not be used to predict the future.”

If costs do need to be cut, industry says it can’t pay for all of it by simply increasing premiums.

“To consider even an eight to ten per cent increase in a premium would be to put some businesses out of business all together,” said Australian Industry Group’s Chris Rodwell.

The CFMEU agrees. “Premiums have to go up there’s no

doubt about it, but we wouldn’t support a

large increase that would hurt business, par-ticularly small business.”

Other solutions that are being examined by certain stakeholders include rewriting section 28 of the Health and Safety Act.

“In its current state, some fringe dwelling lawyers are taking on clients on a ‘no win no pay basis’ and making ridiculous claims that take up time and get pay outs,” one special-ist lawyer told Shift Miner.

It’s also been suggested that enforcing safety regulations more strictly would result in less injuries and therefore less claims.

Another idea has been to make unsuc-cessful claimants pay court costs, to mini-mise spurious claims.

The union remains hopeful that an agreed outcome can be achieved.

“We are confident from the information we have gathered that common sense will prevail and we have come up with some dif-ferent options,” said Mr Valery.

“If it doesn’t, we are prepared to take it further.”

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BLUFF RACES

MORANBAh CLEANS UP

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The good people of Bluff got out their

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recently. Recognise these people?

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“Since the administration proceedings commenced, the company has continued working in New South Wales and it is

now looking for more mining contracts in Queensland.”

Macarthur buy out Macarthur Coal is a step closer to expand-ing its operations to include four NSW coal mines and full ownership of the Middlem-ount Joint Venture.

Late last year Macarthur announced it planned to spend $1.2 billion to buy NSW based coal mining company Gloucester Coal and Noble Group’s share in its Mid-dlemount coal mining joint venture.

To satisfy some legal restrictions on the deal, Macarthur was required to get an independent assessment of the proposal to ensure it was “fair” to its shareholders.

The report has endorsed the sale, and Macarthur is awaiting for Noble to accept the offer.

Abbot moves to 7200 tonnes an hour John Holland has finished construction of a new ship loader at the Abbot Point Coal Terminal.

The new loader weighs nearly 1400 tonnes and is just under 60 metres high.

The project took 18 months to complete,

and will boost Abbot Point Coal terminals loading capacity to 7,200 tonnes an hour.

Chinese buy into Mt Morgan The China Precious Metal Resource com-pany (CPM) has bought into the Mt Mor-gan gold mine.

CPM bought just under 15 per cent of Norton Gold Fields - which has the rights over Mt Morgan - for around $20 million in a private share placement.

Norton Gold Fields major investment is in mines in Western Australia, but it wants to reprocess tailing at Mt Morgan for cop-per and gold.

Washpool feasible by June? Aquila Resources says its feasibility study

into a four million tonne a year Washpool cok-ing coal project will be finished in four months.

The proposed Washpool hard coking coal project would produce 1.6-million tons a year of coal at full production.

Aquila also says the granting of the mineral development licence for the project is “imminent”.

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YOU could be forgiven for thinking that building a hotrod might be as financially smart as digging a big hole and throwing all your money it.

Something that only car lovers do

because... well... they love cars. Not the case - says Wade Dobbs who

owns Custom Fibreglass and builds hotrods for a living.

“Definitely not!” he told Shift Miner.

“Hot rods are hot property, in fact they buck the trend that cars will lose you money.”

“If you spend $50,000 on a hotrod you are going to get it back - and more on top.”

“Not like buying a brand new SS which loses $10,000 by the time you drive it out of the sales room!”

Wade worked for 14 years as a pan-el beater before he went out on his own and started his Rockhampton-based business in 1999.

While his bread and butter work is fibreglass repairs on trucks and jetskis, over the past 10 years he has been able to gradually specialise more in hotrods and restorations.

“Without going back and adding them up we’ve probably built about 40 fibreglass bodies and several cars,” he said.

But his team at Custom Fibreglass have also taken on some complicated and unu-sual work.

They have created miniature replica cooling towers for the Stanwell Power Sta-tion’s education centre for kids.

That job also included building a car-toon-style fibreglass kitchen with a fridge, stove and oven.

“They came to me with some sketches and said can you bring this to life,” said Wade.

He’s also built four 6-metre long train-ing tunnels for the fire brigade which are now used for training purposes across Queensland.

“What people mightn’t realise is that so many things are made of fibreglass these days and we can custom make almost anything.”

“We are able to build hotrod cars to any stage of completion but we can also make pool slides, pool deck chairs, pedal cars and that sort of thing.”

It’s a job that Wade says is very satisfying. “I get the most satisfaction from the

reaction of customers when they come to pick up their car.”

Of course, a man who loves cars this much must have a personal project.

“Well I was building a ute but some-one came in and wanted it so Claire my wife folded it up [the cheque] and put it in her purse!”

“I’m now building a four seater roadster for the family and hope to have it done in time for Motormania later this year.”

CUSTOM BUILT: Wade Dobbs has all your fibreglass solutions covered

Customise your lookBOUNTY mining is back looking for contracts in Queensland, after fighting off bankruptcy.

According to Bounty spokesman Eryl Baron all creditors have been paid with a mixture of shares and cash.

The mining contractor went into volun-tary administration during 2009 when it ran out of cash to pay its bills.

The cash crisis emerged after they lost two key mining contracts in central Queens-land because of the slump in world demand for coal and simultaneously suffered a string of mechanical breakdowns.

As a result the directors of the compa-ny called in administrators BRI Ferrier, to see whether they could salvage the compa-ny through a restructure.

On the advice of BRI Ferrier, rather

than wind up the company, creditors agreed to a Deed of Company Arrangement which allowed Bounty to keep trading.

Typically a creditor would permit this to happen because they see it as their best chance of getting their money back.

Since the administration proceed-ings commenced, the company has contin-ued working in New South Wales and it is now looking for more mining contracts in Queensland.

Prior to the financial crisis, they had about 90 people working at the Aquila Col-liery at German Creek mine under contract for Anglo Coal.

In the 2008 financial year Bounty made $1.8 million proft before interest, tax and depreciation.

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RIO Tinto’s dream of remote controlled mines could be realised as early as next week.

While Rio Tinto is not revealing any detail of the plan until the official launch, Shift Miner understands the digital con-trol centre at Perth will become “live” and above ground remote control mining will begin commmercially operating in the Pil-bara region of Western Australia.

And for the first time in history, 300 operators in Perth will be remote-ly driving their machines thousands of kilometres away in the Pilbara.

Rio Tinto’s dream of automated min-ing was revealed in detail at Qrex last year, by the company’s head of innovation John McGagh.

According to Mr McGagh, the move to completely automated mines is inevitable, as demand for Australian commodities like coal and iron ore skyrockets.

“What this is, is a recognition that the world’s going to get really hard,” he said in 2009.

“The demand we see coming is extraordinary.” “Technologies are being tested in the alpha

pit of the West Angelas iron ore mine in the

Pilbara, and we will use the technology to move 35,000,000 tonnes of ore in 18 months.”

In a further expansion of the compa-ny’s “Mine of the future” program, Rio Tin-to also announced that it was exploring new ways of underground mining.

With partners Atlas Copco and Aker Wirth, Rio is looking to adapt civil tunnel-ling techniques to mining.

In particular, an underground block cave mining method is being evaulated.

Part of this process would be the rolling of what is normally three processes - rock

excavation, rock transport and structural support - into a single process.

Mr McGagh said Rio’s investment in technology would change the way we mine in the future.

“At the heart of our mine of the future programme is industry-leading work to pio-neer new technologies,” he said.

“The partnerships announced today will help us fundamentally change the world of underground mining, by further improving safety and allowing more rapid construction of new underground mines.”

Remote control mining is here


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82nd EDITION. 2010GlOBAl IdIOTS

IN AMERICA - a woman crashed her car in Florida Keys because she was shav-ing her bikini area at the same time.

Apparently, she gave the wheel to her ex-husband while she finished off the shave job - she was on her way to vis-it her boyfriend and wanted to be “ready for the visit”.

It’s left police shaking their heads - topping their previous “best ever story” about a man who was pulled over in the same spot with three syringes sticking out of his arm.

STILL IN AMERICA - an a trendy New York cafe is serving a fig and papri-ka spiced cheese made from breast milk supplied by the chef’s wife.

The chef says the cheese is sweet like cow’s milk cheese - but the flavour can vary depending on what his wife has eaten.

Apparently the feedback has been mostly positive - although most custom-ers don’t want to try it.

And can you blame them?

Meanwhile, plenty of freaky creeps have been contacting the restaurant to try and get their hands on some breast milk “because they weren’t breast fed as babies”.

Those people have been declined. Frankly the whole thing is

pretty weird.

JUST ACROSS THE BORDER IN CANADA - and seal meat will be on the menu at parliament, to show the Euro-pean Union the country is angry with its decision to ban seal product imports.

Canada’s government is going to fight the EU ban which was imposed on the grounds the seal hunt is “cruel and inhumane”.

But Canadian politicians will be able to chow down on double-smoked bacon-wrapped seal loin to show their support for those who earn a living from the hunt.

Canada says the hunt provides valua-ble income for Atlantic fishing communi-ties and seals are either shot or hit over the head with a spiked club.

global idiots

SHE’S big, she’s pink, and she’s charitable. Big Bertha was the central attraction at

the Dig Deep for Charity community day in Mackay last weekend.

Five metres high, and eight metres long, the 41-tonne blue-eyed Bertha has been all dolled up for a good cause.

She’s the 150th dragline bucket produced by CQMS Razer - and she took 26 weeks to make.

But instead of munching through blasted rock she’s being used to raise money for the McGrath Foundation to provide Breast Care Nurses in Mackay and other regional areas.

The family fun day at Harrup Park hoped to raise $100,000 with the help of sponsors.

We’ll check in with CQMS Razer and BMA who organised the event in our next edition to see if they reached their target!

Dear Oscar,“Love’s not time’s fool; though rosy

lips and cheeks within his bending sick-le’s compass come. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom.” Shakespeare said that. Don’t worry about the age dif-ference. The time passed between when you were both born is less important than the time you spend together.

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This week we heard from young fit-ter Rick Da-Re. Last edition we did a profile on Rick, who couldn’t find work in CQ despite his qualifications.

Thanks for the story in Shift Miner, I’ve seen it and it’s spot on mate. I’ve been in Perth for four days now and have a FIFO job in the mines in the Pilbara area paying an extremely good sala-ry with all expenses paid. The lengths these companies go to - to train and get you prepared to be a smarter, safer worker over here is amazing. Absolute-ly loving the west coast!

Whether or not BMA wants to introduce 14-hour shifts has miners everywhere talking:

Why don’t BMA just come out and say it won’t happen if it won’t happen. Some-thing is not right there. T.R, Mackay

Sounds pretty dodgy when BMA has drawn up new rules with 14 hours as the limit. Why is it there if they aren’t going to use it. F.M, Rockhampton

There’s enough deaths on our roads with-out 14 hour shifts. Brad, Mackay

Talk of coal prices going up has some angry about the how workers were treated during the GFC:

If coal companies are signing big new deals now, how come they came in with the big axe and cut jobs last year? F.R, Emerald

And just about everyone is sick of the rain:

Can’t get to work cos the mine is closed and the roads are closed. We’ve had enough of the rain! L.P, Emerald

One minute drought, next minute floods - it’s a funny place to call home. Ken, Mackay

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I left my wife a year ago and have just met a new woman – who is 15 years younger than me. I’m worried about the age difference; can you help? – Oscar

Dear Oscar,The older man/younger woman com-bo has always worried me. My Uncle Col was always after the fresher tail and it got him into no end of trouble. I remem-ber him saying to me at his 58th birth-day bash: “Frankie mate, I gotta say, I like my women like I like my scotch: 25 years old and messed up with coke”. Uncle Col has just finished his second stint in rehab for cocaine addiction and his 28-year-old former wife is now living in his former vil-la, spending his former money and sailing his former yacht round the Greek Islands.

So I’ve always had alarm bills ring in my head whenever I’ve heard of a old-er man dating a younger woman. Person-ally, I’ve never had a younger girlfriend having met my wife when I was still rela-tively youngish. But I did have an older one. That’s right, once upon a time I got mauled by the red painted claws of a sen-sual but dangerous creature known round the world as “The Cougar”.

I’ll never forget the moment I met San-dra. Twas the summer of 1987 and I was a fresh faced 18-year-old with a sparkle in my eye and glide in my stride. I was a sin-gle young stud ready to take on the world and make it my oyster. My older sister was getting married and it was a few nights before the big day. I was out on the piss with the boys for my new brother-in-law’s buck’s night, standing on the edge of the dance floor in some second rate meat mar-ket of a discotheque. It was 2am and my tight pink jeans and piano key tie were drenched with the with sweat of hours of dancing to Van Halen, Bon Jovi and Duran Duran. “Take my breathe away” start-ed up and it was at that moment my eyes locked with the hunteress descending on her prey.

Leopard print top. Knee high black boots. Hot pink micro skirt. Fake nails the colour of blood. I saw see her blue-shaded eyes droop seductively and caught a flash of white canine pressing into the crimson of her lips as she smirked before making the kill. It happened so quickly. She sim-ply strode over and knowing full well the answer before she even asked the question

said: “Hey there tiger. Wanna get outta here?”. And that was it. I was hers.

Sandra was a high-flying marketing director with plenty of money and was used to people saying yes to her. She was 47-years-old, had the face of a 37-year-old and the body of a 27-year-old. At first it was great. She’d pick me up from mum and dad’s place and promising my parents she’d have me home before curfew she’d take me out dancing, to the movies and to dinner. She’d sent me chocolate and flowers and buy me clothes and jewellery. After two months I’d moved in to hers.

That’s when the trouble started. Day and night she devoured me, using my body and crushing my will. I didn’t work because she paid for everything. I didn’t go out because she thought I’d leave her for someone my own age. I pretty much just hung around her office making her cof-fee and delivering her notes. She told eve-ryone else I was the work experience kid but I think after all the private “meetings” we had in her office with the blinds drawn the rest of her colleagues got the message. I got sick of her pinching me on the bum and calling me “toots”. I got sick of her call-ing me a “silly little boy with a pretty face”. I was a man! I had rights! I deserved to be treated with respect! I wasn’t just a bit off fluff to be used and discarded! I wanted to leave but I didn’t know how.

One day I went home and found my things on her front lawn. I stormed into her office but was told she was in a “meet-ing”. Then I saw it. A crappy 1979 Com-modore sitting in Sandra’s parking spot. It belonged to Kenny Ferguson, a pim-ply faced 17-year-old the year below me at school with even less stubble than me. I realised what had happened. I’d been traded in for a newer model.

And so my love affair with Sandra end-ed and I returned home with my dreams shattered, my tail between my legs and my heart broken. Later that night, Sandra returned home to find her house broken into and her tax records sitting next to the fax machine with the fax number of the ATO still flashing.

My point? Some animals can nev-er be tamed. But they can be forced to pay $200,000 worth of tax on undeclared income.

Cheers, Frank

14 HOUR SLOG SHIFT MINERMonday 1st March 81st Edition 2010


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NewsHow safe is your

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NewsMt Isa breathes

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NewsNew dust monitoring

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Around Town

Mini MX stars

» page 11

CQ Business

The Mac’s record

results » page 12

Money Matters

Private health cover

going up » page 21

MINING giant BMA is yet to spell out

why it has drawn up a new fatigue manage-

ment standard if it doesn’t intend to apply

it to central Queensland mines.

The region’s biggest employer says it

has no plans to make miners work 14 hour

shifts - despite the corporate document

outlining it as the new maximum limit.

The document, which sets out the com-

mon requirements across all BMA sites,

says employees can now work for 14 days

straight, do 14 hour shifts, and work seven

consecutive night shifts.

But the company insists there

will be no change to shifts at central

Queensland mine sites.

“It does not impact hours of work

arrangements at BMA’s existing opera-

tions as all BMA employees are covered by

Fatigue Management Procedures on a site

by site basis,” said CEO Marcelo Bastos in

a statement prepared for Shift Miner.

CFMEU district secretary Jim Valery is

more than a little skeptical.

“If I go and buy a television I’m pret-

ty sure I’m going to want to use it at some

stage,” he said.

“These 14 hour shifts are outrageously

dangerous and I don’t know why you want

to put these fatigue standards in a docu-

ment if you don’t intend to use them.”

The CFMEU is so concerned about the

possible rami�cations of the document that

last Monday Mackay district union inspec-

tor Tim Whyte did something he has never

done before.


THE rain has been steadily falling in CQ, and if the weather forecasters are right,

there is plenty more on the way.

This picture, taken by one of our readers, shows the trouble it has caused at Moura mine.

Over the past fortnight three mines have breached strict water discharge rules, but the

state government department that handles water quality says the impact will be minimal.

» Turn to page 7 for more details.

RAINING HAVOC

» continued page 8

stuff to the editor

Big Bertha digs deep for charity!

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82nd EDITION. 2010

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For those too busy or embarrassed to ask the important questions about their healthEXPERT ADVICE

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.

Dear Tammy,

When you go shopping these days there are so many varieties for the same food, how do you know what is better for you? All I know is to look at fat, but then you hear some fats are good for you, what is it I should be looking for?

From one confused customer

This is not uncommon what you are telling me ‘one confused customer’! Have you noticed even when you go to buy a can of tuna you have the tuna in spring water, tuna in oil, tuna with chil-li, and that is just on one shelf!

Let me break it down for you over the next few editions.

Firstly let’s look at what is important when you read food labels:

ENERGY The energy involved highlights how many kilojoules is within one service or 100g of the food.

PROTEIN The protein amount indicates how much protein is in a serve.

FAT The fat content is always divided into

the total fat, saturated fat and trans fats. The foods you choose should be less than 10g per 100g of your TOTAL fat in the food. The saturated fat should be 30 oer cent less then the total fat (to keep you healthy). Trans fats are the worst type of fat, try to avoid them wherever possible.

CARBS This section concentrates on the use of starches and sugars in the food, identi-fying how much of each is in the food. You really do want to minimise eating foods with added sugars, aim for less then 10g of sugar per 100g.

FIBRE You should aim for foods with higher amounts of fibre - so 8g of fibre per 100g

SODIUM Otherwise referred to as salt, you should aim for foods with less than 120mg per 100g

To make it a little easier when you are comparing all of the foods on the shelf, check out the 100g panel on the right hand side, this allows you to compare all the varieties in the foods due to so many varied serving sizes.

Good luck and I will have more tips for you next edition.

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82nd EDITION. 2010


82nd EDITION. 2010Off ShIfT

AT GLADSTONE Dylan at Pat’s Tackleworld in Galdstone says the only thing that seems to be in any abundance in the harbour and estuaries are crabs and prawns.

The reason is of course that these areas are completely full of fresh water.

It is a similar story in the deeper water, but if you can get past the fresh there are trout and sweet-lip about.

Around 12 Mile has been fishing OK. At Lake Awoonga there is a large vari-

ation (three degrees) in water temperature across the lake owing to all the inflows.

As a result the barra are quiet at the moment.

AT YEPPOON They are still pulling barramundi out of the Causeway Lake, and quite surprisingly there

are some large gold line whiting around. They don’t normally show up until the

winter, but they are there at the moment being caught along the beaches.

Flathead are also around but Ian at Capricorn Sports in Yeppoon says you need to pick your tides and places because of the amount of fresh water around.

His advice is to search for salty water - tasting is the best confirmation - and in those pockets you will catch fish.

Still plenty of crabs around, but the heavier prawns are thinning out so you’ll have to wait for the smalls around to put some weight on.

The fresh water is also affecting the island fishing, but Ian says the further out or the further north you go the bet-ter off you are.

One fisherman he knew of didn’t catch a thing 40 kilometres out, but bagged out at 80 kilometress.

If you don’t want to go that far out, just wait a while and things will really improve.

AT MACKAY Zach at Nashy’s Compleat Angler at Mackay says the recent rain has created some activity in the estuaries with grunter on prawns active around the Pioneer River mouth and Murray Creek.

A few whiting are starting to show up in the clearer water, while trevally and queensfish are being caught along the dirty water line.

In the deeper water there are the usu-al red emperor and nannygai lurking around the shipping channel, while red throat and trout are being caught in and around the islands.

Kinchant Dam is starting cool off, with the bigger fish moving to the deeper water, but smaller fish still being caught.

This week fresh bait is the best for estu-

aries, but if you can’t get that try fresh prawns and mullet.

Soft plastics are the best for the dams.

BAIT ShOP BANTER

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Week 1- The flooding in the Dawson River is slowly easing in the upper section near Tar-oom. Major flooding continues downstream from Theodore peaking at around 13 metres before slowly abating. The flood has also peak-ed around Moura to Baralaba (just over 12 metres). During the first ten days of March Theodore discharged almost one million mega-litres – or the volume of two Sydney Harbours. Rolleston recorded 625mm of rainfall over the past three and a half months (71 per cent above average). In contrast, rainfall totals for the same period in the northern Coalfields were fractionally below average. Moranbah record-ed 309mm down 13 per cent and Collinsville 363mm down 6 per cent.

A large high in the Bight is pushing strong to gale force winds along the Queensland coast. This is the first comfortable autumn conditions after the oppressive humidity of recent weeks. Coastal brief showers drifting into the east-ern Coalfields will make welcome relief after

the “muggy “heat and heavy rain of summer. Something to celebrate on St. Pat’s Day.

Not good for the boaties! Seas over 3 metres and squally showers will make it uncomfortable early in the week. Mid-week is showing signs of improving. Watch for a Trop-ical Cyclone developing in the north east Cor-al Sea - if that occurs the winds could possibly remain for another week. Week 2 - If a Tropical Cyclone (TC) develops west of 160 degrees longitude then it will be named “Paul” by the Bureau of Meteorolo-gy. If it forms east of the line then the Fiji Met. Service will make the call. The monsoon has not finished with Australia yet. If the system moves west then the North Tropical Coast will get a good battering plus a dump of rain. This will affect the Central Coast and the north east-ern Coalfields. Boaties watch the north closely! The winds may give a short window early in the period but another strong high could re-surge the south easterlies. It’s all up to the TC!

YOUR WEATHER FORECAST

Wednesday 17th March Blackwater Blackwater Hotel Motel St Patrick’s Day - Joe Black from 5pm

Thursday 18th March Emerald Maraboon Tavern World Karaoke Championship

Friday 19th March Emerald Maraboon Tavern DJ Mezziah

Dysart Jolly Collier Clown Attack

Blackwater Blackwater Hotel Motel Disco Nights

Rockhampton The Great Western Practise bullride The Criterion The Twinz

Tieri Tieri Hotel Motel Free juke box

Saturday 20th March Emerald Maraboon Tavern Aaron & Tim

Dysart Jolly Collier Live Entertainment 10pm

Rockhampton The Criterion The Twinz

Blackwater Blackwater Hotel Motel Karaoke with Steve O

Tieri Tieri Hotel Motel Clown Attack

Sunday 21st March Dysart Jolly Collier Live Entertainment 2pm

Thursday 25th March Emerald Maraboon Tavern Karaoke World Championship

Friday 26th March Emerald Maraboon Tavern DJ Mezziah

Blackwater Blackwater Hotel Motel Disco Nights

Dysart Jolly Collier Beach Weekend Party

Moura Coal n Cattle Hotel Downtime

Tieri Tieri Hotel Motel Dan Miller

Rockhampton The Great Western Young Guns Round 2 The Criterion 7 Ft Samurai

Saturday 27th March Emerald Maraboon Tavern Double Trouble $5

Dysart Jolly Collier Beach Weekend Party

Blackwater Blackwater Hotel Motel Karaoke with Steve O

Rockhampton The Great Western Kevin Bloody Wilson The Criterion 7 Ft SamuraiTieri Hotel Motel Punter’s Day

Sunday 28th March Dysart Jolly Collier Live entertainment 2pm

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12. Southern US state

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LAST EDITION’S SOLUTIONS

FlooDs slowly EasE as auTuMn sTaRTs

BEST OPTION: Soft plastics are best on the dams at the moment.

Send your gigs to [email protected]


82nd EDITION. 2010


82nd EDITION. 2010MONEY MATTErSMOTOrSPOrTS

The official data released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) shows that 82,219 passenger cars, SUVs and commercial vehicles were sold - a jump of 17.1 per cent.

New cars sales back on track

ANYTHING between about $700, 000 and $2.4 million according to Herron Todd White (HTW) property valuers.

In its latest monthly report, HTW exam-ined what constitutes a prestige residen-tial property in central Queensland and what effect the global recession has had on its value.

Looking firstly at Mackay, HTW said that despite terrifying falls of up to 20 per cent in value for top end property at the height of the global recession, confidence is slowly rebuilding.

‘Prestige properties in the region are generally considered those above $750,000,” the report said.

“However agents were reporting very little demand for properties listed above $600,000.”

“Values in the top end market fell up to 20 per cent in some areas.”

“[However] it has become evident that the new year has brought a new sense of optimism to this market sector.”

The report said agents have noticed increased interest in the prestige market, across both coastal and city areas, and one local agent reported five properties under contract at sales between $750,00 to $1.025 million within the last month.

Further south in and around Rockhampton and the Capricorn Coast, prestige property has not been selling quickly or in large numbers, however value has remained fairly constant.

In Rockhampton, anything over $700,000 is considered to be prestige, with most of the houses falling into that category being large historic Queens-lander houses on the eastern slope of an area called the “Range”.

Late last year a house in Rockhamp-ton broke all sales records when it sold for $1.4 million.

According to HTW, prestige property on the Capricorn Coast can sell for up to double that.

“”Prestige property is thinly traded, and focussed on geographic features, rather than particular suburbs,” the report said.

“Beach-front property, elevated homes with good views and more recently, a select number of penthouse units, make up this market.”

“Again the million dollar market is some-thing of a threshold, although houses have sold to $2.4 million over the past 18 months.”

In nearby Gladstone the outlook for prestige property is closely linked to the prospects for the billions of dollars of indus-trial investment planned for the city.

There are more than $15 billion worth of coal seem gas projects awaiting their final investment decision, whilst the $2 billion stage two expansion of the Yarwun Alu-mina refinery is still on the drawing board despite the delays created by the GFC.

According to HTW, for property to be classified as prestige in the industrial city, it generally need to be new and in a rare loca-

tion by the ocean or away from industrial development.

“These prestige markets were very qui-et over the first two quarters of 2009, with only a handful of sales, however sales activ-ity has picked up in the latter months of 2009,” HTW said.

“”Over the past 12 months there have only been two sales over $1 million.”

MORE than 82,000 new vehicles were sold in February in Australia, up almost 12,000 on the same month last year.

The official data released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) shows that 82,219 passenger cars, SUVs and commercial vehicles were sold - a jump of 17.1 per cent.

“This is a very strong result and provides further evidence of renewed growth in vehi-cle sales,” FCAI Chief Executive Andrew McKellar said.

It is private buyers that are leading the trend - they have returned to the market in mass numbers - up 9.3 per cent on a year ago.

“It is encouraging to see private buyers edging back into the market following the financial concerns of the past year,” he said.

Business sales remained strong (22.7 per

cent increase) and there was a sharp rise in the number of vehicles sold to rental com-panies (175 per cent increase).

“Deliveries of vehicles purchased under the business tax break are gradually phas-ing down and we need to examine how the market will look without the impact of eco-nomic stimulus,” Mr McKellar said.

“Looking ahead, sustaining the confi-dence of private buyers is the key challenge for the economy,” he said.

“For that reason we continue to be cau-tious about the impact of interest rate increases,” Mr McKellar said.

Toyota retained the top selling position in February, increasing its market share to 20.5 per cent; followed by Holden with 13.6 per cent and for the first time in third posi-tion, Hyundai with 8.8 per cent.

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The company sold 7,208 vehicles in Feb-ruary, and recorded 8.8 per cent of the mar-ket share.

Overall, the number of Hyundai vehi-cles purchased last month is up more than 73 per cent on 12 months ago.

Its van the iLoad accounted for a third of all sales in the van segment of the market - with 657 sold across Australia.

Also performing well was the Hyundai Getz.

The Getz ranked first in the light car seg-ment of the market, with almost 2000 vehi-cles sold; that represented a 17 per cent market share.

The iMax ranked second in the peo-ple mover market, posting its best ever sales result (202 units and 23.6 per cent market share).

“The team at Hyundai and the Hyundai Dealer network are excited that more Aus-tralians are considering Hyundai when they are looking for a new car,” said Hyundai’s director of sales, Damien Meredith.

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82nd EDITION. 2010MONEY MATTErS

The Storm Financial debacle has made more than a few Queenslanders wary of financial advisors.

But if you are looking for someone to help you with investment decisions, then the Aus-tralian Security and Investment Commission has put together some tips to help you out.

Choosing your advisor Choosing your adviser is an important personal matter.

Do some research and aim to talk with a few advisers before you decide.

Some will do a better job than others.

There are plenty of advisers to choose from, so look for someone who: •willputyourneedsfirst• worksoftenwithpeopleinyoursituations•willfitinwithyourpersonality

how to find some names Talk to your family, friends or colleagues or anyone who’s seen a financial adviser.

Find out about their experiences and wheth-er they have been happy with their advice.

Ask about the good points and the pitfalls. Only talk to advisers who are employed

by or who are authorised to represent a

licensed advisory business. ASIC licenses and regulates the financial

advisory industry so that it operates effi-ciently, honestly and fairly.

You can check licence details, or see if we’ve banned someone from advising, for free through FIDO or by phoning our Info-line on 1300 300 630.

Licensing gives you more protection if some-thing goes wrong, including the right to a free and impartial hearing of consumer disputes.

start with finanCial serviCes guide Phone each business and ask them to send you their financial services guide which gives you the key information you will need to help you decide if you wish to use their services, such as their fees, how to make a complaint and the business’s insurance or other compensation arrangements.

All licensed advisers must produce one. If they don’t send it, cross them off your

list straight away.

who owns the business? Ownership of the business can affect the services and products you’re offered.

For example, an advisory business may be allowed to offer only the parent compa-ny’s products.

Many advisory businesses are owned by

major financial institutions like banks, fund managers and life insurance companies.

Even if they operate under a different name, the financial services guide will tell you if they’re owned or associated with oth-er companies.

Only a few financial advisory companies are independently owned.

serviCes offered Check if the services offered cover your needs.

For example, product restrictions can affect you.

Some businesses are limited to products issued by themselves or their parent companies, whereas other businesses may offer a wider selection, but may not cover the whole market.

fees and Charges You will often pay a once-off fee for getting advice.

On top of that fee, most advisers get paid commissions and bonuses on financial prod-ucts you buy.

Often they could earn more if you buy a particular product compared with another that could be just as good or even better.

This can set a up a conflict of interest between what’s good for your adviser and what’s good for you. (The law deals with this potential problem by requiring advis-

MONEY MATTErS

THERE has been a 100 per cent in the number of reported cases of online shop-ping fraud in Australia over the past year.

The Australian Competition and Con-sumer Commission (ACCC) has produced a publication that provides useful tips such as finding out the seller’s contact details, using secure payment systems and protect-ing personal details, as well as advice on what to do if things go wrong.

“The internet is a great way to get things done, especially shopping,” said ACCC dep-uty chair Peter Kell.

“It can save you a lot of time and can be very convenient, but consumers need to be careful when online.”

“Nearly 70 per cent of consumers that con-tacted us about scams in2009 said they were contacted by scammers via the internet.”

The ACCC has also issued a new fact sheet for small businesses that explains scams that might directly target them.

Small business scams are usually dis-guised in various forms - from false billing invoices for advertising or directory listings that were never requested to dubious office supplies that were ever ordered.

“In 2009 the ACCC has recorded a 60 per cent increase in the number of complaints about false billing scams - one of the main types of scams that target small businesses.”

“A typical example of this is where a small business is sent a subscription form disguised as an outstanding invoice.”

“This is an attempt to trick the recipient into signing up for unwanted advertising services.”

The information sheets can be found online at www.accc.gov.au

Online scammers after your money

ers to manage conflicts and also to tell you about all commissions.)

what if the adviser Calls you? Take care if you get called out of the blue, the caller may be selling advice or products that do not suit you or may be a scam.

Telemarketing or ‘cold calling’ potential clients breaks the law: • ifthecallerhasnolicence• ifthecallertriestosellyouinvestmentsor

financial products without following strict legal safeguards Even if a licensed adviser is calling you to

come in and get advice by following all the steps we outline in this booklet, please take care.

Think first about what you need, and see other advisers as well.

With telemarketing, the salesperson has selected you; you have not selected them.

what to listen for when you meet A good first meeting will involve each of you sharing the conversation.

Begin by saying you are looking for an adviser, and you feel they may be able to help you, but you won’t be making up your mind till you’ve seen 2 or 3 more.

Say that you may make some notes to help you remember things.

Invite the adviser to give you anything in

writing that will help answer your questions.You should get the opportunity to hear

about the adviser’s experience, the kind of people they advise, the kind of financial prod-ucts they advise on, and their qualifications.

Pay attention to important clues about the adviser. Do they: •make you feel comfortable about asking

questions? • encourageyoutotakeyourtime?•want to understand your situation thor-

oughly before giving any advice? Being talked at, put under pressure or

told there’s only one right way to do things is not a good sign.

You’re looking for an adviser, not a salesperson.

how to deCide After you’ve met all your possible advisers, com-pare how each adviser answered your questions.

Note each adviser’s strong and weak points and score each adviser from 1 to 5 against each heading on our list of ‘what you need’.

Give a score for how you feel over-all about being free to ask questions and whether you got a clear answer.

Feeling pressured or uneasy can be warning signs that an adviser won’t work out for you.

See who gets the highest score.Remember you’re comparing advisers,

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BLACKWATERThe Blackwater HotelWed 17 March - St Patrick’s Day - Joe Black from 5pm Fri 19 March - Disco Nights Sat 20 March - Karaoke with Steve “O” Fri 26 March - Disco Nights Sat 27 March - Karaoke with Steve “O”

DYSARTJolly Collier Hotel MotelFri 19 Mar – Clown Attack till 2am + big screen in the courtyard Sat 20 March – Live entertainment from 10pm to 2am Sun 21 March – Live entertainment in the courtyard from 2pm + free sausage sizzle Fri 26 March - Beach Party weekend with DJ Shaun til 2am + big screen in the courtyard Sat 27 March - Beach Party weekend with DJ Shaun and Dan Miller till 2am Bikinis, board shorts, singlets, best bikini comp and best tan prize Sun 28 March - Live entertainment in the courtyard from 2pm + free sausage sizzle

MOURACoal n Cattle MotelFri 26 March - Downtime 9.00pm Thursday nights - APL Poker 7.30pm Friday nights - steak special $12.00 Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday - pool comp 8.30pm

TIERITieri Hotel MotelTuesdays - Pool comp, great prizes Fri 19 March - Free juke boxSat 20 March - Clown AttackFri 26 March - Dan Miller Sat 27 March - Punters Day - free nibblies & giveaways New chef and new menu! Sun 21 March - Pizza Meal Deal - family pizza, garlic bread & 1.25L bottle of softdrink $29.95

Group Accommodation

SPECIAL

per night with

three meals.

Minimum four night stay$125

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