Coal mining and the resource community cycle: A longitudinal assessment of the social impacts of the Coppabella coal mine Click Here to access paper

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Mining Developments and Social Impacts on Communities: Bowen Basin Case Studies

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Sustainable Regional Development in the Bowen Basin - A Strategic Issues Paper

This project was undertaken by CQUniversity during 2008, at the request of the Minerals Council of Australia and the Queensland Resources Council. The aim was to provide a useful analysis of the socio-economic issues confronting the Bowen Basin region, as it experiences rapid industrial growth associated with the ongoing development of coal reserves, whilst striving toward sustainable development. Key components included:

• an overview of the contextual framework of the challenge of achieving sustainable development in the Bowen Basin;

• a high-level socioeconomic characterisation of the Bowen Basin, with an emphasis on ‘headline’ issues pertinent to the future planning and sustainability of the region;

• a profile of the mining sector and industry within the Bowen Basin (including the results of a survey of mining companies with operations in the Basin;

• a targeted analysis of the key trends and issues facing the region; and

• recommendations for sustainable development of the Basin into the future. Project outputs include a comprehensive final report (some 165 pages), and an accompanying executive brief (20 pages). Both documents are currently pending approval for public release.

For more information please contact the authors:

• Prof Bob Miles (bob.miles@live.com.au)

• Dr Susan Kinnear (s.kinnear@cqu.edu.au)

Bowen Basin population report, 2007 Full-time equivalent (FTE) population estimates at 31 July 2007

Monitoring annual growth in the size of the permanent resident
population and the number of non-resident workers in local
government areas of Central Queensland.

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Assessing social and economic impacts associated with changes
in the coal mining industry in the Bowen Basin, Queensland,
Australia

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Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) and
Business Performance of the Regional Coal Mining
Industry in Central Queensland

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Assessing the Social and Economic Impacts of Coal Mining on Communities in the Bowen Basin: Summary and Recommendations

RESEARCH REPORT No. 11

Population growth– highlights and trends The Whitsunday, Hinterland and Mackay Region

Population growth– highlights and trends Central Queensland
A New Millennium
Region 2004

Report on the Blackwater Housing Forum, held at the Blackwater Civic Centre, Thursday 13 May 2004

Miles, R. et al 'The Attraction and Retention of
Professionals to Regional Areas'. Paper presented to National Regional
Research Colloquium 2004, DOTARS, Canberra.
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2003

Bowden, B.

Bowden, B 2003, ‘Regulating outsourcing: the use of contractors on the Central Queensland coalfields, 1974-2003”, Labour & Industry , vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 41-57.

Evans, R, Roe, p 7 Joy, J 2003, online, ‘Water use and sustainable development in coal mining – a case study from Central Queensland'. Paper presented at Minerals Council of Australia Sustainable Development Conference , viewed 30 April, 2004

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Rolfe, J, Lockie, S & Franettovich, M 2003, online, Economic and social impacts of the Coppabella Mine on the Nebo shire and the Mackay region

Please click on the links below to download PDF versions of report sections:

Executive Summary (188kb)

Report Overview (184kb)

Economic Impacts Assessment (408kb)

Social Impacts Assessment (508kb)

Appendices (56kb)

Full Report (22.8mb)

Please click on the link:

http://www.ir.qld.gov.au/reports&submissions/index.htm

The Department of Industrial Relations Queensland posts a variety of written material on its internet site. Electronic documents are posted in the public interest, with some being prepared by and for the Department, and other prepared by independent individuals and organisations.

The Working-Time Transformations and Effects Report

The Department of Industrial Relations Queensland 2002/03b, online, The working-time transformations and effects report, viewed 30 April 2004.

This report involves research undertaken by Griffith University in collaboration with the Department of Industrial Relations. It investigates the transformation of working time arrangements in Queensland. The research included seventeen case studies, two of which were mines.

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http://www.ir.qld.gov.au/reports&submissions/workingtime.pdf

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Extended Working Hours in Australia...

The Department of Industrial Relations Queensland 2002/03a, online, Extended working hours in Australia : counting the cost , viewed 30 April 2004
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2004

Bowden, B & Barry, M 1998, ‘The greatest curse was unrestrained competition: regulating competition in the Queensland coal industry', Labour History , vol. 75, pp. 195-216.

Bowden, B & Molloy, A 2002, ‘Local industries in a global market: a comparative study of the Cape Breton and Queensland coal industries', in S McBride, L Dobuzinskis, M Griffin Cohen & P Busumturi-Sam (eds), Global instability: uncertainty and new visions in political economy , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Bowden, B 2001, ‘Heroic failure? Unionism and Queensland 's coal communities, 1954-67', Labour & Industry , vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 73-94.

Bowden, B & Russell, B 2000b, ‘Productivity improvement, declining union influences & price deflation: the Australian coal industry and workplace reform', in M Sheehan, J Patrick & m Barker (eds), Transcending boundaries; integrating people, processes and systems conference , Brisbane, September, pp. 75-82.

Bowden, B 2000b, ‘Competing to survive? Productivity, workplace reform and international competitiveness in the Australian coal industry', in J Burgess &G Strachan (eds), Research on work, employment and industrial relations 2000, Vol. 2: refereed papers . Proceedings of the 14 th AIRAANNZ Conference, Association of Industrial Relation Academics of Australia and New Zealand , Newscastle, February, pp. 113-22.

Bowden, B & Russell, B 2000a, ‘Globalisation and the labour process: benchmarking best practice in the Australian coal industry', in S McBride & J Wiseman (eds), Globalisation and its discontents , pp. 97-110, Macmillan, London .

Bowden, B 1999, ‘flexible, specialised or efficient? Work reorganisation in the Australian coal industry, 1987-99', in C Fraser, M Baker 7 A Martin (eds), Proceedings of the Organisations Looking Ahead Conference , Brisbane, November, pp. 49-55.

Bowden, B 7 Barry, M 1995a, Open cut mining project: report no. 1 – Blackwater management and union perceptions and strategies , Centre for Research on Employment & Work, Griffith University, Brisbane.

Bowden, B & Barry, M 1998, ‘The greatest curse was unrestrained competition: regulating competition in the Queensland coal industry', Labour History , vol. 75, pp. 195-216.

Barry, M, Bowden, B & Brosnan, P 1998, The fallacy of flexibility: workplace reform in the Queensland open cut coal industry , Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

Bowden, B & Russell, B 1998, ‘Benchmarking, global best practise and production re-norming in the Australian coal industry'. International conference on Globalisation and its Discontents , Vancouver , July.

Bowden, B & Barry, M 1997a, ‘Employer and union objectives with regard to workplace change in the Queensland open cut coal industry', in T Bramble et al. (ed.), Current research in industrial relations . Proceedings of the 11 th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia & New Zealand , Brisbane , February, pp. 28-37.

Bowden, B & Barry, M 1977b, ‘Regulating competition in the Queensland coal industry, 1900 to the 1930s', Regulating employment and work in Australia: a historical re-evaluation in memory of Peter McCarthy , Brisbane, 27 June.

Brosnan, P, Bowden, B, Brown, D, Barry, M, Bromwitch, D & Liew, L 1995, Report of the review of the implementation of the open cut coal mining industry restructuring agreement aat BHP Australia coal mines in the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Vols 1 and 2 , Centre for Research on Employment & Work, Griffith University, Brisbane, pp. 231, xxviii, 603.

Bowden, B 1995, Open cut mining project: report no. 4 – Gregory management and union perceptions and strategies , Centre for Research on Employment & Work, Griffith University, Brisbane.

Bowden, B & Barry, M 1995b, Open cut mining project: report 2 – Saraji management and union perceptions and strategies , Centre for Research on Employment & Work, Griffith University, Brisbane.

Bowden, B & Barry, M 1995c, Open cut mining project: report 2 – Goonyella-Riverside management and union perceptions and strategies , Centre for Research on Employment & Work, Griffith University, Brisbane.

Donald, M & Bush, R 1998, ‘The health and well-being of young people', Moranbah Rapid Appraisal , October.