{"id":148496,"date":"2025-09-16T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148496\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T23:43:07","slug":"bhp-alliance-to-sack-750-workers-blaming-qld-government-mining-royalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148496\/","title":{"rendered":"BHP alliance to sack 750 workers, blaming Qld government mining royalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">One of Queensland&#8217;s biggest coal miners will cut about 750 jobs across its operations, blaming the impact of high royalties imposed by the state government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The BHP Mitsubishi Alliance says its Saraji South mine at Dysart will be mothballed from November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">BMA asset president Adam Lancy said in a statement the company did not want to see jobs lost, &#8220;but these are necessary decisions in the face of the combined impact of the Queensland government&#8217;s unsustainable coal royalties and market conditions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The simple fact is the Queensland coal industry is approaching a crisis point,&#8221; Mr Lancey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;This is now having real impacts on regional jobs, communities and small businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The uncertainty this creates for our people and our communities is not taken lightly, and we will do everything we can to support them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Queensland&#8217;s biggest coal miners will cut about 750 jobs across its operations, blaming the impact of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6266,100126,19165,60715,92092,43,6827,44,701,44915,100127,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-148496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bhp","tag-bhp-mitsubishi-alliance","tag-coal","tag-coal-royalties","tag-dysart","tag-headlines","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-queensland","tag-royalties","tag-saraji-south","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}