Silverfaun wrote
What an odd thread, attacking an industry that got Australia through the GFC, employed thousands & saw the greated money train in Australia's history. Today it still employes thousands of young people who are willing to go west to assure their future with the high wages they earn Let's destroy the mining industry, lets adhere to the Greens policy of destruction, will all the opponents be be happy living in the dark, homeless & starving like the 3rd world countries the Greens want whilst our energy prices soar, lets leave it in the ground shall we.
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Good Ole aunty...here's something else for you to whinge over Silverfaun
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2876728.html
Australia's love affair with the mining boom has been in the headlines for many years now.
Mining is credited with saving us from the Global Financial Crisis, putting food on our tables, keeping our economy strong and thousands of people employed.
It's been a great public relations success.
A survey released by Essential Media this week showed that 67 per cent of Australians count mining as one of our top three most important industries. A typical Australian believes the mining sector accounts for more than one third of economic activity, and employs about 16 per cent of our workforce.
Unfortunately, our perceptions of the mining industry are wildly out of step with the reality.
Today, The Australia Institute released its new research paper Mining the Truth; The rhetoric and reality of the commodities boom, which provides a detailed analysis of the ways in which the mining boom is affecting our economy, both positive and negative.
The true picture of Australian mining it reveals is startling, in all the parts that have been glossed over, rewritten or ignored.
To begin with, mining doesn't even come close to accounting for a third of our economic activity. Mining represents about 9.2 per cent of GDP, roughly the same as manufacturing. And the perception that mining employs around 16 per cent of our workforce credits the industry with nine times more workers than it actually has, about 1.9 per cent of the workforce.
Despite the expansion of mining over the past seven years, mining accounts for only 7 per cent of new jobs created over that time.
Of course, mining likes to roll in all the indirect jobs it creates.
If every sector calculated their share of the workforce in this way, the total number of Australian jobs would be inflated by three times the true number.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/call-for-foreign-curbs-as-miners-get-gfc-cred...
and the SBS...
AUSTRALIANS believe the mining industry saved the economy during the global financial crisis but most want curbs on foreign investment and the use of overseas workers.
A major new survey - commissioned by SBS as part of its Dirty Business: How Mining Made Australia series to be screened from January 6 - shows Australians appreciate the benefits that mining has brought to the economy and its role in shaping the national identity.
It shows 44 per cent of people believe the mining sector shielded the economy from the GFC, with only 9 per cent disagreeing
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