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16/07/2008 Media Release: Ticks and BIG questions – Green Paper on Emissions Trading
Statement by MCA Chief Executive Officer, Mitchell H Hooke.
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27/06/2008 Media Release: "Easy Does it: Emissions Trading makes sense but rushing
...The real issue is how we chart our path towards a lower greenhouse gas emissions future.
62.7 kb
28/05/2008 Media Release: Australia must address capacity constraints or risk losing further share of global minerals market - new research.
Australia has already lost market share to international competitors in the race to meet the strongest global growth in demand for minerals and energy in a generation and could lose more if capacity constraints are not addressed, new research has found.
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28/05/2008 Media Release: Strong increase in minerals sector jobs by 2020 - new report
Employment in the already buoyant minerals sector is set for even stronger growth with a 70 percent increase forecast by the year 2020, in new research commissioned by the Minerals Council.
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29/05/2008 2020 Vision: Global commodity demand scenarios
The Minerals Council of Australia commissioned Access Economics to consider potential scenarios for global industrial commodity demand.
747.0 kb
29/05/2008 Infrastructure 2020: Can the domestic supply chain match global demand?
Australia is the world’s best supplier of industrial inputs to the developing world, and the developing world is having a boom of unparalleled size and length.
466.4 kb
27/05/2008 Media Release: New Government-Minerals Industry Indigenous jobs initiative
The Australian minerals industry strongly backs the Rudd Government’s plan to provide Indigenous Australians with new Job Seeker trainee places as a complement to existing initiatives of minerals companies.
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23/05/2008 Media Release: MCE welcomes the release of a code of practice for mineral exploration
The Minerals Council of Australia welcomed the release of the Victorian Code of Practice for Mineral Exploration to provide practical guidance to explorers regulated under the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990.
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13/05/2008 Media Release: Budget 2008-2009 Important steps in the right direction
The MCA commends the overall Budget strategy which introduces a longer term planning framework, focuses on the need to fight inflation by reining in government spending, delivers a strong surplus and tackles capacity constraints, the Acting Chief Executive Mr Brendan Pearson said today.
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06/05/2008 Media Release: Victorian Budget on Track
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) endorses the Victorian Budget’s strong contribution to sustainable economic growth, to effective climate change policies and to addressing capacity constraints in the economy that threaten the scale and longevity of the present minerals industry expansion.
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