Mount Morgan – scooter and vehicle incident
A female in her teens with minor injuries was transported in a stable condition to Mount Morgan Hospital following a scooter and vehicle incident on the corner of Dee Street and Central Street at 6.32pm Sunday.
Head-on collision at Ogmore
On Friday 16 June, RACQ CapRescue attended the scene of a two-vehicle head on collision on the Bruce Highway near Ogmore.
The Rescue 300 helicopter left base at 2.30pm and upon arrival, Queensland Fire and Rescue, Queensland Police and Queensland Ambulance Service were already in attendance with two elderly couples receiving treatment.
One of those persons remained entrapped in a vehicle for a short time.
Flight medical crew stabilised one patient and transported a male occupant of one of the vehicles to Rockhampton Hospital with internal injuries.
The road was closed for several hours following the accident.
Misleading Coal message
The Queensland Government’s taxpayer-funded advertising campaign about coal royalties is highly misleading, the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) said on Monday.
QRC Chief Executive Ian Macfarlane said Queensland resources companies have always paid substantial coal royalties to help fund government services and infrastructure such as hospitals, roads and schools and under the previous system, when coal prices went up, so did the amount of royalty taxes collected by the government.
“That’s how the system was already working to make sure every Queenslander benefited when coal prices were higher,” Mr Macfarlane said.
“For example, in the 2021-22 financial year, Queensland coal producers contributed $7.2 billion in royalties to the state budget. Under the old system, this would have risen to a record $9.6 billion in royalties in 2022-23 because of higher coal prices but the
government has instead collected a staggering $15.3 billion.
“The decision by the Queensland Government last year to make our royalty taxes the highest in the world and five times NSW has placed a $100 billion pipeline of potential Queensland resources projects, and the jobs that flow from that, at risk because it has
made Queensland uncompetitive.
“That loss of projects will also mean lost royalty taxes as existing mines reach end of life and there are no new mines to replace them.
“There needs to be a balance between what the Queensland Government takes from the resources sector and what it leaves, to encourage companies to continue to invest in projects here.
“Taking an excessive amount of money out of the sector at the top of the commodity price cycle does not allow companies to ride out the times when prices are down, and the first thing to go when that happens is jobs are lost.”