Australian Mining: Labor Green Loon Policies working: Xstrata coal has announced the loss of 600 jobs from mines in the Bowen Basin in Queensland and the Hunter Valley in New South Wales and BHP Billiton will close its open-cut operations at the Gregory coal mine near Emerald next month with the loss of a further 300 jobs. The cuts have been blamed on falling coal prices.

900 mining jobs to go in NSW and Queensland

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3587252.htm
Broadcast: 10/09/2012
Reporter: John Stewart
Xstrata coal has announced the loss of 600 jobs from mines in the Bowen Basin in Queensland and the Hunter Valley in New South Wales and BHP Billiton will close its open-cut operations at the Gregory coal mine near Emerald next month with the loss of a further 300 jobs. The cuts have been blamed on falling coal prices.

Transcript
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: BHP Billiton and Xstrata today announced a total of 900 jobs will be cut from the resources sector in Queensland and New South Wales. The mining companies are blaming rising costs, falling commodity prices and the high Australian dollar. 

John Stewart reports on the latest reversal of fortunes for the mining industry.

JOHN STEWART, REPORTER: BHP Billiton today announced it will close the Gregory coal mine near the Queensland town of Emerald. Three hundred jobs will go. The open cut mine has been operating since 1979. The mining industry says that tough times are ahead.

MICHAEL ROCHE, QUEENSLAND RESOURCES COUNCIL: Well certainly the days of easy money on the back of high commodity prices is behind us. The hard work is ahead of us of growing volumes, boosting productivity, getting costs down and holding on or growing our market share. So it's tough work from here.

JOHN STEWART: Xstrata Coal has also announced that 600 jobs will be cut from mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin and the NSW Hunter Valley. 

With a dozen sites in two states, Xstrata hasn't outlined exactly where the jobs will be lost, but the company says the cuts will affect both contract and permanent positions.

The Queensland Premier says that in the current climate, workers need to show restraint in wage claims.

CAMPBELL NEWMAN, QUEENSLAND PREMIER: I do make the point that it's quite appropriate that workers should share the rewards of the good times. But I do sort of ask everybody in the coal industry to recognise now that prices are off. It's not a time to be asking for huge increases in prices from subcontractors or indeed high pay rises for employees.

JOHN STEWART: But the miners’ union says that while labour costs are higher in Australia than some overseas countries, there are still many benefits for multinational companies operating in Australia.

ANDREW VICKERS, CFMEU, MINING AND ENERGY DIVISION: The reserves and the resources in Australia are so good. They are located so close to the coast. We have a marketing advantage, we have a freight advantage, we have a climate advantage - none of our mines get frozen for six months of the year like they do in places like Siberia and the northern parts of Canada. And we have significant political security, which isn’t the case in many developing countries.

STEPHEN SMYTH, CFMEU: A lot of them are still announcing enormous huge profits. So, you know, I'd like to think it's not profits before people. A lot of people are unsure about their future. We say the industry's still good, it's still strong and it'll pick up, but at this stage, for those that have been affected, it's a terrible situation.

JOHN STEWART: Today's job cuts come after last week's shock announcement by Fortescue Metals that it would cut 1,000 jobs in response to a plunge in iron ore prices.

BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have also shelved billions in investment plans as the outlook for demand from China becomes less certain.

The mining industry is also concerned about any future increases in government taxes.

MICHAEL ROCHE: Well I think there was a misconception that projects are impregnable, that you can throw any extra costs, any extra taxes at a resource project and they will keep standing tall and will keep rolling on.

JOHN STEWART: Resource analysts are anticipating more coal production cuts and layoffs.

John Stewart, Lateline. 

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Australia’s richest mining magnates have lost around $15 billion over the past 4 months.

Mining moguls losing millions daily

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Australia’s richest mining magnates have lost around $15 billion over the past 4 months reports BRW. The plummeting price of iron ore, Australia’s biggest export, has contributed heavily to the decrease in net worth of some of Australia’s richest individuals.

Iron ore is used to make steel, and as demand wanes for steel in China the spot price for the resource has fallen almost 40 per cent since April. In one session alone, the price of the commodity slipped 5 per cent and ended at a two and half year low. 

Hardest hit by the price slump is Gina Rinehart, who has lost around $9.5 billion in four months, estimates BRW. Earlier this year, Rinehart had an estimated wealth of $29 billion which made her the richest woman in the world. If the world’s second richest woman, Walmart heiress Christy Walton, has not lost a significant part of her $25 billion dollar fortune it’s likely she has regained the top spot as the richest female on the planet.

Related: Rinehart loses title of world’s richest woman

While Rinehart looks to have lost almost a third of her total wealth, fellow outspoken mining mogul Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s wealth has fallen by more than $2 billion, estimates BRW.

Forrest, who had an estimated worth of $9.41 billion earlier in the year, has been forced to spend some $38 million in recent days to buy 10 million shares in his Fortescue Metals Group.

Investor anxiety about Fortescue’s massive debt level was rising as quickly as the iron ore price was falling before Forrest stepped in and increased his stake in the company.

Related: Fortescue boss hikes his shares by $39m

Related: Fortescue sells power station for $US300m

While Ivan Glasenberg is not as well known as the first two moguls he has still lost more than $1 billion over the past four months thanks to the price plunge. As the major shareholder in commodities trading giant Glencore International, Glasenberg has seen his wealth slump from $7.40 billion to $6.10 billion, estimates BRW.

Related: Grave global concerns for Australia’s economy

Lance Corporal Mervyn McDonald and Private Nathanael Galagher ,Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic, Sapper James Martin and Private Robert Poate ......are coming home.

Five Australian soldiers Killed in Action this week, are on their way home after being farewelled by their comrades in Tarin Kot, Afghanistan.
At the ceremony, Commanders paid homage and soldiers remembered fallen mates with heartfelt words. Australian soldiers and their coalition partners lined the route and saluted as a slow moving convoy of five Long Range Patrol Vehicles carried the soldiers to the Royal Australian C-130 Hercules for their final journey home.
The moving ceremony was also attended by senior Australian Defence Force, ISAF and Afghan National Security Force Commanders.
Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic, Sapper James Martin and Private Robert Poate from the 3 RAR Task Group were killed and two of their comrades wounded following an insider attack at Patrol Base Wahab in the Baluchi Valley region of Uruzgan on the evening of 29 August, 2012.
In a separate and unrelated incident Lance Corporal Mervyn McDonald and Private Nathanael Galagher from the Special Operations Task Group died when a ISAF helicopter crashed in Helmand Province in the early hours of 30 August, 2012.

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The Bolt Report Pt.2 Sept. 2 2012,Andrew Bolt,Australian Politics,Afghanistan,Australian Soldiers Killed,Green on Blue Murders,Julia Gillard,Andrew Wilkie,John Della Bosca,Mathias Corman,Liberal Party, Labor Party,Asylum Seeker Scam,Illegal Entrants,Open Borders,Nauru,John Howard, Tempory Protection Visas,Building and Construction Watchdog,CFMEU,Fairwork Australia,China,USA,BHP,Vote Buying,Mining Taxes,

The Bolt Report Pt.3 Sept. 2 2012,Andrew Bolt,Liberal Party,Australian Labor Party,Tanya Pliberserk,Sexism Card,Christine Forster,Gay Marriage,Bess Price,Northern Territory Elections,Sydney City Council Elections,Tim Tams, Clover Moore,Clint Eastwood,Mitt Romney,Made My Day,

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Five Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Patrick Lion, National Political Reporter
Daily Telegraph
August 30, 20126:11PM



FIVE Australian soldiers have been killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, in one of the darkest days of Australia's campaign.

In the first incident, three soldiers were killed in an attack in Oruzgan province by a man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform.

Two other soldiers were also wounded in the incident, Acting Chief of Defence Air Marshal Mark Binskin told a media conference in Canberra. 

In the second incident, two Australian Special Forces soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed in Helmand province.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has cut short her trip to the Pacific Islands Forum and will fly back to Canberra tonight. 

She said Australians would be grieving for the five dead soldiers in what was the worst day of deaths in combat since the Vietnam War.

"I believe this is the most losses in combat since the days of the Vietnam war and the battle on Long Tan,'' she told reporters.


"This is news so truly shocking that it's going to feel for many Australians like a physical blow.

"If we are feeling that, then it is hard to imagine what the families of these five men are feeling," she said.

"Their loss is immense, their grief will be sharp and our condolences go to each of them as they are confronted by this news."

The three soldiers killed in the first incident were all based at the Gallipoli barracks in Brisbane's Enoggera.

One was a 40-year-old lance corporal posted to the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment of the Queensland Mounted Infantry.

He was on his second tour of Afghanistan and had previously served in Iraq.

Sydney's Occupied Territories:Swaggering Muslim Rat with a Gold Tooth,Mahmoud Mariam, gets away with Murder sniggers and laughs at sentencing in Sydney Court.

Six years jail for Bob Knight's killer

Amy Dale, Court Reporter 
The Daily Telegraph 
August 30, 2012 4:59PM

THE man who fired the shot that killed truckie Bob Knight will spend close to six years in jail.

Mahmoud Mariam was ordered by Justice Megan Latham to a minimum of five years and nine months for the killing of the Canberra truck driver.

Swaggering Muslim "Rat with a Gold Tooth" Mahmoud Mariam, leaving Court today after sentencing for killing Australian Bob Knight

In NSW the maximum penalty for possession of an unlicensed hand gun is fourteen years.

The maximum penalty for not having a firearm secured is ten years, the maximum penalty for manslaughter is twenty five years

This swine received five years and nine months for killing Bob Knight. 

He and his fellow Swine went to the KFC car park to shoot someone, had they of just killed each other no harm done, nothing to see here, move along please, however they killed a hard working Australian just going about his lawful business of supporting himself and his family and for that he was killed shot dead by the lowest of the low.

Mr Knight, a veteran truckie, was hit by a stray bullet that travelled 200m from the carpark of Milperra KFC during a shootout between two gangs on June 25, 2009.

The court heard the two groups had gotten into a fight at a Bankstown shopping centre earlier that day.

Three men, who cannot be identified because they were underage at the time of the shooting, were today sentenced for affray.

Mariam was found guilty last May by a jury of manslaughter, but acquitted of murder.

Justice Latham described Mariam's crime as "a most mindless display of violence" and said the men had shown a disregard for "vulnerable" members of the public.

"This was a premeditated assembly of 11 people for the purpose of the settling of a score which seems to have arisen from a petty assault earlier that day," she said.

"It is an abhorrent and despicable display of male aggression."

Two of the men were sentenced to three-year good behaviour bonds after pleading guilty to affray.

The other man, who was found guilty by a jury of affray and maliciously destroy property by fire, will be eligible for release on parole within two weeks- as his sentence took into account the time he has spent in custody. 

Allowing for Mariam's time in jail, he will be eligible for parole in April 2016.

Bob Knight's daughter Katherine said outside court that she was pleased at Mariam's sentence, saying "we've been told that's good for manslaughter these days."

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Sydney's Occupied Territories:"...accidents are being staged,baseball bats used to add damage to vehicles,assessors threatened or bashed,"

Violence in smash repair rort racket

Mark Morri
The Daily Telegraph
August 27, 2012 12:00AM

INSURANCE workers are being intimidated into inflating quotes, accidents are being staged and baseball bats used to add damage to vehicles in a car repair racket costing the industry millions.

Assessors who refuse to co-operate are being threatened or bashed, and damaged vehicles are being "held hostage" at repair yards.

The situation has become so violent that a private security company is guarding the home of one worker who recently refused to inflate a quote at an inner-city repair shop.

In another case a worker from a different company was beaten by four men at his home in the western suburbs.

Others have reported tow trucks driving past their homes or parking nearby for hours at a time.

The men and the companies involved have asked their names not be identified because of possible reprisals.

A highly-placed insurance industry source said yesterday: "It is extortion. Not only are people getting hurt but it is going to cost customers millions of dollars.

"Inflated quotes is a problem but the much wider and growing concern is 'captured cars'," a senior insurance executive said.

By law, the owner of a smash repair shop that tows a car is restricted to charging only $17.50 a day in storage fees. But if the vehicle is towed by another tow truck the owner can charge what he likes. For that reason owner operators don't really exist any more, especially on paper.

"The criminal tow truck operators and smash repair yards work together to make life for insurance companies a pain," he said. "It has always been that way. Now it is getting dangerous."

The companies want clients' cars taken to an approved shop or their own centre where the job can be done at a fair price.

But often the smash repair shop will refuse access to the car or won't let insurers on the premises to take away vehicles to approved workshops without exorbitant payment.

"Some shops will charge you $300 a day storage, and $100 every time they move it. Then there will be 'administration costs' as well," another executive said. "It's not uncommon for a shop to ask for $5000 to release a car."

I know an ex assessor,over 30 years in the job,who was subjected to this criminal extortion and threats years ago, and yes it was the usual suspects aka. "men of middle eastern appearance" who were responsible the "Harmony Day" and "Cultural Enrichment" .Why hasthis story has taken years to surface in the MSM ? maybe a Labor Green media useful idiot has been stung by these swine.

Sydney's Angela Chon : She's a psychiatric nurse, holds a law degree with honours, and she's a Pole Dancer .

Sydney's own pole dancing nurse

By James Gorman
The Daily Telegraph
August 25, 20121:19PM

POLE dancers from around Australia are being invited to showcase their best moves as nominations open for Miss Pole Dance Australia.

Every August, heats are held around the country before the finals in November. The champion will then go to Europe to compete in the World Finals, where Australia has won three times in the past five years.

Among the entrants this year is Newtown resident Angela Chon, who has been pole dancing for four years, reports the Inner West Courier.

The psychiatric nurse, who also holds a law degree with honours, said there was nothing else like the Miss Pole Dance Australia contest.

"The competition is one of a kind in that it involves just a pole dance rather than others which are more fitness based," Ms Chon said.

"It really is the first of its kind in the pole dancing industry. If you win, you hold the title of Miss Pole Dance Australia for a year and it opens up all types of competitions and opportunities. The pole dancing world is a niche one but once you get into it, it's a great world to be apart of."

Ms Chon said that audiences would be in for an exciting show during the November finals.

"I think the audience can expect to be dazzled.

"Last year, contestants were using smoke machines and firecrackers because everyone tries to outdo each other - it is really about who stands out because all the tricks start looking the same after a while. So it's about how much we can wow the audience."

Please support in anyway you can these,wonderfully talented girls,and also demand that the IOC immediately acknowledge Pole Dancing as an Olympic Sport starting in Rio 2016

1982 Sydney PA (Harmony Day celebration ? ) Bombing investigation re opened

Hakoah bombing mystery re-opens

Yoni Bashan
The Sunday Telegraph
August 25, 2012 6:11PM

NSW Police have launched a fresh inquiry into two unsolved terrorist attacks in Sydney almost 30 years ago, identifying one of the world's most wanted extremists as the prime suspect.

Counter-terrorism detectives have reopened their investigation into the bombings of the Israeli Consulate and Hakoah Club on December 23, 1982. The investigation - known as Operation 

Forbearance - led detectives to Terre Haute, Indiana, in May to interview terrorist Mohammed Rashid in jail.

The 65-year-old - jailed over the 1982 bombing of a Pan Am flight - was a senior member of the pro-Palestinian terror group known as 15 May.

Police believe he is an architect of the Sydney attacks, along with his mentor, 15 May leader and master bomb-maker, Abu Ibrahim, who is now wanted by NSW Police.

"(Ibrahim) is a significant person of interest to this investigation," a senior police source said.

The explosions happened within four hours of each other. The first was detonated at 2pm inside the stairwell of Westfield Towers on William St in the CBD, which housed the Israeli Consulate. The second happened at 6.45pm inside the Hakoah Club, a Jewish soccer and social club, in Hall St, Bondi Beach.

Australia's Labor Green Loons "Co Party" Senator, Sarah Hanson Young seen here standing rock solid with what the progressives describe as the "Palestinian cause" during a PA Terrorist support rally. The Greens are strong advocates of Islamic immigration into Australia via an open borders policy that was quickly adopted by their  "Co Party" partners the Australian Labor Party and only recently wound back after some 5 years of open and unrestricted illegal entry into Australia by predominantly Muslim males 18 to 24 years of age.

Who knows how many Islamic Terrorist sleeper cells have flourished since the election of the Union / GetUp financed Rudd / Gillard / Labor Green Loon Co Party governments given the shameless moral and financial support, via various Multicultural Industry SCAMS,given by them to these Terrorist groups at the highest level of government.

A 1971 Valiant parked in the club's carpark had been fitted with gas cylinders and a 20-litre drum of petrol connected to a timing device.

No one was killed in either attack, but 76-year-old Clara Lowy, who worked as a tea lady at the consulate, was seriously injured. Within two months, Sydney man Mohammed Ali Beydoun was charged over the Hakoah bombing.

The Lebanese-Australian citizen, then 32, had no criminal record and worked as a mail sorter at Sydney Airport. Detectives linked Beydoun to the blast through the Valiant - its number plates belonged to his sister, who had reported her car stolen days earlier.

The Valiant's salesman provided detectives with facial reconstructions of the two men who purchased the vehicle. Beydoun was identified as one of the buyers. The other man remains unknown and police are trying to track both.

Beydoun always denied any involvement and on August 3, 1984 his charge of being an accessory before the fact was thrown out by the Attorney-General because of insufficient evidence. The investigation then went cold. However, police always suspected international terrorism. Both explosions used a sophisticated timing mechanism known as an "E-cell" and other bomb signatures that pointed to 15 May.

Ibrahim, 76, whose real name is Husayn Muhammad Al-Umari, was added to the FBI's Most Wanted List in 2009 after intelligence linked him to a hideout in Lebanon.

There is a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest. Another person of interest to the case is former 15 May member Adnan Awad, who turned himself in to authorities during the 1980s. He now lives in hiding under an assumed identity.

The investigation into the Sydney attacks lay dormant until February 2011, when counter-terror investigator, Detective Inspector Caroline O'Hare, re-examined the case.

The Sunday Telegraph has been aware of the developments since last year but, at the request of NSW Police, agreed not to print any details until tonight.

"During the '80s, it was taken as far as it could be," a police source said. "We have a range of suspects ... there could be domestic and international arrest warrants issued."

In the past 18 months, up to 20 detectives have been tracking historical files and photographs of the two crime scenes.

Rashid, now 65, is serving out the remainder of his sentence over the 1982 bombing of Pan Am flight 830 over Honolulu which killed one person and wounded 15 others.

He received a lenient sentence for co-operating with the FBI and will be released on March 20 next year to face immediate deportation from the US.

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