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Employment in the Western Australian mining and petroleum industry has sharply increased over the last decade, from 85,163 in 2010, directly employing an average of 135,001 people during 2019–20. The largest employers were the iron ore (48.5%) and gold (23.4%) sectors. [2] [6]
The department was formed on 1 July 2017, out of the former Department of Mines and Petroleum and Department of Commerce. [1] A restructuring of the Western Australian government departments was part of Mark McGowan's election campaign and, in the month after taking office, the number of government departments was reduced from 41 to 25. [2]
The Mining and Energy Union (MEU) is Australia's main trade union in the coal industry, which includes mines, power stations and ports. It also covers workers in the metalliferous mining and exploration industries, as well as specific classes of workers working in the oil, gas, nuclear, chemical production and power generation industries. [ 1 ]
Mining and Pastoral: Wendy Duncan National: Resigned to contest Legislative Assembly seat of Kalgoorlie: Dave Grills National: 13 February 2010 East Metropolitan: Jock Ferguson Labor: Died in office Linda Savage Labor: 12 August 2008 Mining and Pastoral: Vince Catania Labor: Resigned to contest Legislative Assembly seat of North West: Shelley ...
Its focus is the resources sector, maintaining a mining and petroleum regulatory role and incorporating the resources safety responsibilities from the former Department of Consumer and Employment Protection. It also oversees the Geological Survey of Western Australia. [3]
Minister for Mines and Petroleum is a position in the government of Western Australia, currently held by Bill Johnston of the Labor Party. The position was first created in 1894, for the government of Sir John Forrest , and has existed in almost every government since then.
The Minerals Council of Australia estimates that 0.02% of Australia's land surface is directly impacted by mining. [ 33 ] Particularly significant areas today include the Goldfields , Peel and Pilbara regions of Western Australia , the Hunter Valley in New South Wales , the Bowen Basin in Queensland and Latrobe Valley in Victoria and various ...
A Perth Chamber of Mines, founded in 1897, [3] quickly became defunct. [4] The Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie bodies merged in 1900, as the Chamber of Mines of Western Australia. [4] [5] The headquarters of the combined body were in the Kalgoorlie Chamber of Mines building. In the same era, there was also in London, a Westralian Chamber of Mines. [6]