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  1. More than four years after Brad Duxbury was crushed by two tonnes of falling coal, Carborough Downs Mine Management has pleaded guilty to failing in its workplace safety obligations, which also led to the injury of another worker in a separate incident.
  2. Whitehaven Coal's Winchester South coal mine in central Queensland's Bowen Basin plans to extract up to 17 million tonnes of coal a year for about 30 years.
  3. The Queensland government allowed its mine safety commissioner Kate du Preez to keep acting in her role after accepting a lucrative job offer from a coal giant that has multiple convictions over workplace deaths and injuries, ABC Investigations has found.
  4. Matthew James Ireland inflicted sickening injuries on Hemi Goodwin-Burke in 2015 and pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the day his murder trial was to begin. Today he's a free man, but Hemi's family say they've got a life sentence.
  5. Operations at one of the state's biggest coal mines remain suspended after two serious incidents in one night.
  6. With 54 "really concerning" mining incidents across Queensland since January, the union worries workers' lives are being put at risk.
  7. As many as 77 people were evacuated before take-off at Moranbah in central Queensland on Wednesday evening after a fire was found in the tail of their charter flight.
  8. An ABC analysis uncovers several examples of project approval being granted to coalmines based on environmental assessments that contained significant underestimates of their greenhouse gas pollution.
  9. Queensland miner Rozlyn Walker, found guilty of causing the road death of healthcare worker Tammy Frewin during February 2022, has been reprimanded by the magistrate for giving false evidence that left her feeling "exasperated".
  10. A metallurgical coal mine in Central Queensland has been flagged for approval by the federal government, but an environmental group says people who voted in favour of climate action have a right to feel betrayed.