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Australian coal mine and power station workers’ prospects look bleak – unless we start offering more targeted support

  • Written by: Adam Triggs, Visiting research fellow, Australian National University
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Workers who were made redundant in coal-fired power plants between 2010 and 2020 saw their incomes plummet by 69% in the year after they lost their jobs.

This was the staggering finding of research by Dan Andrews, Elyse Dwyer and Lachlan Vass at the e61 Institute reported by The Conversation in 2023.

Andrews, Dwyer and...

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