The latest data from the Australian Bureau Statistics confirms the importance of the mining industry to the Australian economy, says the Minerals Council of Australia.Despite the overall economy contracting, mining industry GDP increased 4.9 per cent in 2019-20 and totalled $202 billion, MCA chief executive officer Tania Constable said. This made mining Australia’s largest industry, with a 1...
The mining and energy sector is continuing to prove itself as a “life raft” for the Queensland economy, with new figures showing the state increasing its share of resource jobs nationwide. Research by CoverCard, released by the Minerals Council of Australia, shows there were 8785 new job advertisements across Australia within the mining industry between March and May 2020. Queensland, t...
The Minerals Council of Australia has launched an ongoing online survey to gauge what diversity and inclusion means to people in the mining industry. The survey is positioned on a diversity and inclusion webpage that kicked off last month, and MCA senior manager – media Peter Kos says it has drawn an encouraging number of responses. “The survey has been designed to glean what di...
The growth in demand for mining workers has been highlighted in an independent pilot study undertaken for the Minerals Council of Australia. Job demand in blue-collar fields in the sector was up 120 per cent in the three months to November 2018 (16,000 positions) throughout Australia compared to the three months to March 2016 (6000 positions). The MCA says the work by technology firm Cover...
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