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Jim Viets Performs the Mining Permit Blues

WTW25 November 20158 November 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R50N9SLi3Zg&t=1s [caption id="attachment_1141" align="alignleft" width="189"] Mining Permit Blues[/caption] Song by Jim Viets launched in the Pilbara for National Mining and Related Industries Day, 22nd November 2015. Mining Permit Blues...

In The Press Mining Politics The Australian

Asset Seizure by NSW Infuriates Americans

WTW14 October 2015

American institutions are considering launching international arbitration proceedings against Australia because the government of former NSW premier Barry O’Farrell expropriated US assets worth $120 million. [caption id="attachment_943" align="alignleft" width="201"] Glen...

ICAC In The Press The Australian

ICAC Won’t Lift Suppression for Parliamentary Oversight

WTW14 October 2015

[caption id="attachment_917" align="alignleft" width="135"] Chris Merritt - The Australian[/caption] The Independent Commission Against Corruption has refused to lift a suppression order over key documents from three completed inquiries because it...

Coal Mining

Draft Exploration Code of Practice: Community Consultation

WTW14 October 2015

The Division of Resources and Energy (DRE) is currently reviewing the existing community consultation guidelines and reporting information. A draft Exploration Code of Practice: Community Consultation [752 KB PDF] has...

Coal In The Press The Australian

Asset Seizure by NSW Infuriates Americans

WTW6 October 2015

ICAC In The Press

ICAC’s Failings are Caused by its Alien Structure

WTW2 October 2015

One of the enduring criticisms of the NSW justice system has been its failure to secure criminal convictions against those who have already been processed by the Independent Commission Against...

Before the Courts ICAC

NuCoal Innocent says ICAC, But Still No Compensation

WTW28 September 2015

With a determination handed down by Justice Stephen Rothman only last week, the Court found that ICAC acted in accordance with its common law duties, however, it also made statements...

In The Press Politics The Australian

Former Mining Minister Calls for Judicial Inquiry into State’s Anti-corruption Commission

WTW25 September 2015

Former NSW mining minister Ian Macdonald has called for a judicial inquiry into the state’s anticorruption commission after obtaining confidential transcripts in which witnesses, including Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese ,...

Before the Courts Coal ICAC

NuCoal continues to pursue Free Trade Agreement action

WTW24 September 2015

NuCoal Resources Ltd today noted the findings of the New South Wales Supreme Court which today upheld the December 2013 report by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). NuCoal Chairman,...

Business In The Press World

Queensland’s ‘Enough is Enough’ Job Campaign is Waiving the Flag for Australians

WTW15 September 2015

The Queensland Resources Council online ‘Enough is Enough’ petition has now reached more than 2000 signatures, just a month after its launch. QRC Chief Executive Michael Roche said the petition...