Adani Carmichael mine: residents urged to get health checks

Doctors have urged people who lived near the proposed Adani Carmichael mine, and the transport links that would service it, to get their health checked now to arm themselves for possible action down the track, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Doctors for the Environment Australia member David King, a Brisbane-based GP and senior lecturer at the University of Queensland's school of medicine, said those residents needed a “baseline” with which to compare their health down the track, should they fall ill as a result of the mine's activities.

Mining industry malaise is good for gold miners

Costs in the Australian gold mining sector are continuing to decline as miners of the precious metal benefit from the challenging conditions buffeting other parts of the industry, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

With key commodity prices such as iron ore, coal and nickel languishing at multi-year lows drilling, contract mining, labour and other major costs have come down across the industry, providing a significant benefit for local gold miners enjoying relatively strong prices in Australian dollar terms.

Gina Rinehart is no longer Australia's richest person

In the past five years Gina Rinehart has topped Forbes Australia's rich list but this year she has been unseated by another woman, reclusive American heiress and longtime Australian resident Blair Parry-Okeden, according to the Australian Financial Review.

Parry-Okeden's net worth of $US8.8 billion makes her the country's richest person while Rinehart has fallen to second place with a net worth of $8.5 billion.