Tania (Tanya) Constable

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FEAR & GREED | Business News · Q+A: Does Australia's mining sector have a PR problem? · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

You put a lot of capital into even exploring for a mine and only one in thousand are going to be successful at the end of the day.

And so there's very few mines that start out at the exploration and go right through to mining.

an end result.

So making sure that the reward is there for the risk.

So taxation arrangements, workplace relations arrangements, making sure that you've got the right skills, the talent, the people available, making sure that environmental planning

is all done in a cohesive way as a set of policy conditions is really important.

But at the heart, taxation needs to be fair.

The arrangements in Queensland are not right for the mining industry.

It has moved too far.

The pendulum has swung too far towards high, heavy taxation.

And what it's doing is just making the really big tier one companies think twice about whether they are going to invest in Queensland as opposed to investing elsewhere elsewhere.

internationally.

So every dollar is competitive.

And when a group within a company is vying for their particular project and they're going to a board and saying, fund my project,

then all of these things are taken into account.

Taxation is a big one and we think that the pendulum has swung too far.

That can be righted, but that's a discussion, a negotiation with the government of Queensland to fix that at the end of the day.

We had the best conditions in Western Australia compared to anywhere in the world.

employee-employer relationships, a negotiation on salaries based on performance.

And that has meant that we have moved our workforce from the beginning of the 2000s from 9,000 to 65,000 in Western Australia alone.

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