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Palaszczuk pressured Glencore to stop Oaky North lockout

QUEENSLAND Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, who is coming under increasing criticism by the coal industry over her wavering support for Adani’s proposed $16.5 billion Carmichael coal project, weighed in on the lockout at Glencore’s Oaky North mine and contacted its global coal chief over ending the dispute.

Lou Caruana
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

The Fair Work Commission decision to suspend the lockout of 175 miners at Oaky North “is a welcome opportunity for all parties to resolve a dispute that has gone on for too long”, she said in a statement....

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