CQ LABOR MPs HIGHLIGHT RISKS OF CASUALISATION IN THE COAL INDUSTRY

Fortunately common sense has prevailed over the radical and extreme mining laws proposed by the Trad Labor Government.

 

Thanks to timely and long overdue cooperation between the mining industry, workers, trade unions and the LNP, the extreme anti-mining and anti-jobs agenda of the Queensland Labor Government has been defeated. 

 

Unfortunately, there was one group that stayed conspicuously silent during this unnecessary saga. Central Queensland Labor MPs and candidates, like Russell Robertson (Capricornia), Zac Beers (Flynn) and Belinda Hassan (Dawson), have not said boo about the jobs that would have been lost if the proposed radical laws had been passed.

Central Queensland Labor MPs and candidates are nothing but "casual" defenders of coal mining jobs.

 

Sometimes they come out and defend workers – say, when a picket line is on – but then they go for weeks, sometimes months, without turning up for work.

 

The over-reliance on casual employment in the mining sector is a real issue, no better demonstrated by the casual approach that CQ Labor takes to the job of defending the coal-mining industry.

 

Whether it is in Adani, green activists, inner-city radical Treasurers or proposed carbon taxes, Labor candidates are not fulltime representatives of their electorates.

 

It is time for Central Queensland Labor candidates to end casualisation and get back to work.