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MCA defends jobs data

MINERALS Council of Australia CEO Tania Constable has hit back at claims by the Mining and Energy Union that the MCA peddled misleading, hand-picked data about rates of permanent mining jobs, declaring that repetition of the false claim by unions that mining was a highly casualised industry did not make it true.

 Constable refutes union claims

Constable refutes union claims

In a release the MCA cited Australian Bureau of Statistics data stating 88% of mining workers in 2021 were permanent, with the number of casual workers in mining from 2012-2021 averaging 13%, compared...

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