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by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 12:00:41 PM EST
I don't know much about underground mining in Australia, but I have sincere doubts that the miners would be 100% whiteys as the ad seems to represent.

I care about mining industry miners and their communities, stop coal mining yesterday. I revert to Crazy Horse concerning my opinion on Clean Coal.

Truly sad that when people actually pitch coal vs nuclear, coal still has a chance to win.

by Nomad on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 12:59:55 PM EST
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Well mining in AU still tends to be a union job, so that could explain the low % of non-whites.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 01:11:14 PM EST
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There's a mix of "Old Ozzies" and "New Ozzies" in that ad, but because of mateship and the massive shortage of apprenticeships versus applicants, most of the miners will be sons or nephews of miners, so the mix will mostly be Anglo-Celtic on the one hand and "Ethnic" Continental European on the other.

Asian Australians are not heavily represented in mining, given the timing of the big influx of Asian immigration, and of course Aboriginal Australians are almost entirely locked out of high-paying working class jobs like coal mining.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 05:50:56 PM EST
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