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Australia’s biggest gold miner tops up childcare workers’ salaries to keep them out of the Super Pit
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Australia’s biggest gold miner tops up childcare workers’ salaries to keep them out of the Super Pit

“There are more childcare places than there are child carers, so it’s not a lack of buildings and infrastructure, it’s a lack of the carer ratio that’s required in a childcare so they can’t actually meet those ratios, which then reduces the amount of spots,” he said. “So the first problem to deal with is getting more carers interested or employed into those roles so that the children can actually be looked after. “It is a real critical issue for us in order to release the worker from their domestic life to come work for us if their kids can’t get care. “It’s kind of levelling them up to sort of make being a child-carer in Kalgoorlie competitive with being a child-carer anywhere else because the rent Kalgoorlie is astronomically high. “When they’re on a lower wage base and having to pay higher costs, it just destroys it, they say, ‘If I’m going to be a childcare worker, why would I do it here?’”

Zempilas warns ‘only a mug’ would ignore net zero link to Liberal election lessons
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Zempilas warns ‘only a mug’ would ignore net zero link to Liberal election lessons

“It would especially not be smart or sensible for somebody in my position, having witnessed the two election results that I witnessed earlier this year, only a mug– only a mug – would not heed the lessons of two elections back-to-back. “To walk away, to suddenly decide, ‘Oh, I know best. Don’t worry about what the election results said. I know best, the people might have voted one way, but actually that’s not what they really mean, or that’s not really what they think’. “We just had two elections back-to-back. Now, if there are people who can assess things differently to me or better than me, well, fair play to them. But I know what I saw. I know what I saw in those elections.” The federal Liberals look set to drop net zero from their climate policy in the next few weeks after the Nationals did the same.