MAP Seminar

Mine Awareness Program Seminar

Sunshine Coast

Thursday May 5, 2011
from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST
Sands Tavern




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Construction starts on Queensland’s biggest urban renewal

After seven years of planning, construction on the world-class $2.9 billion RNA Showgrounds Regeneration – the largest urban renewal project in Queensland - has started

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Cranes: not what to do

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Calls for more construction apprentices

A major manufacturing union is warning that unless Queensland's construction sector trains more apprentices the industry will face a serious skills shortage in the next five years.

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Floods don’t dampen spirits of resources sector . . . but bad government policy will

Recent weather setbacks have done nothing to undermine the resources sector’s confidence in the ability of Queensland to continue to be one of the world’s great minerals and energy provinces.

Chief Executive of the Queensland Resources Council Michael Roche told a conference in Mackay today that the sector pumps $707 a second in payments into the Queensland economy, contributes around 21 percent of Queensland’s gross state product and is directly or indirectly responsible for one in every eight jobs in the state, but nearly half of all jobs in the greater Mackay region.

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