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Employment mix underpins jobs lift – MCA

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Harnessing a mix of employment models had helped the mining industry to triple its workforce in the past 20 years, the Minerals Council of Australia has told a Senate inquiry into job security.

MCA deputy chief executive officer Sid Marris said Australian Bureau of Statistics figures showed 84 per cent of the workforce were permanent employees either with a mining company or specialised service contractor.

"The industry pays the highest average wages. Employees in companies present today are all paid above award rates, double the median for all industry," he said

"The average is $2325 in 2020 and casual employees. . .

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Mining group weighs in on curriculum debate

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Proposed changes to Australia’s primary and secondary curriculum threaten the success of its world-leading minerals sector, a peak group says.A Minerals Council of Australia submission has urged the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) to strengthen the earth sciences and mathematics curricula to educate more young Australians in STEM from an early age."Encouraging primary and secondary students to learn about the mining industry and the science behind the formation of the earth, water systems and climate is an important building block for the skills pipeline feeding one of Australia’s largest industries," chief executive officer. . .

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Initiative to enhance mining accountability

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Australia’s minerals industry will introduce the Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) system developed by the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) and implemented worldwide among key mining nations.

The Minerals Council of Australia said the system would further improve site-level performance through regular and transparent reporting on safety, environmental and social indicators. TSM would also show how operations engage with Traditional Owners while supporting social and economic aspirations and heritage protection.  MCA chief executive officer Tania Constable said the phased introduction of TSM as an expectation of MCA membership would give industry stakeholders, including First Nations partners, local communities and. . .

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Mining earnings stand firm as economy slows

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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 10.4 per cent share of the economy.

"In a year where the nation has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the mining industry has been a pillar of stability," Ms Constable said.She said there were 240. . .

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Queensland leads the pack for mining jobs resilience

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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, the second largest state for identified mining job advertisements after Western Australia, increased its share of total identified mining job advertisements in that period to 31 per cent

This was up from 26 per cent in the previous three months. . .

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Inclusion on the agenda in MCA online initiative

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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 diversity and inclusion in the mining industry means to page visitors, the challenges or barriers to improving diversity and inclusion in the industry, and the areas/topics they would like to see more information about," he said. . .

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Study highlights job demand trends in mining

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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 CoverCard is the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of mining-related jobs and skills advertising in Australia.

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