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Coal Australia staged the final of its pre-election ‘Meet the Candidates’ Town Hall events in Rockhampton overnight, drawing candidates and voters from the Capricornia electorate.

Coal Australia staged the second of its pre-election ‘Meet the Candidates’ Town Hall events in Shellharbour overnight, drawing voters from the contested electorates of Whitlam and Cunningham.

Coal Australia launched the first of its pre-election ‘Meet the Candidates’ Town Hall events in Singleton overnight, drawing voters from the hotly contested electorates of Hunter and Paterson.

The 2025-26 Federal Budget has missed a vital opportunity to put genuine downward pressure on energy costs, instead relying on a handout to households rather than substantive measures to promote the cheapest form of electricity generation; coal¹.

The ghost of the previous Queensland Labor government continues to haunt the state’s coal mining sector, with Labor’s fiscal failures now compounded by the world’s most punishing coal royalty regime.

Coal Australia is calling on the new Queensland government to reduce the state’s punitive coal royalties with the latest GST funding carve-up highlighting how the previous Labor government’s greedy royalties grab has backfired badly.

Coal Australia has provided clear evidence demonstrating coal-fired power is significantly cheaper than current estimates by federal government policy makers and remains the cheapest form of reliable energy in Australia.

As the State election results are finalised, it’s clear that Queensland coal communities have sent a strong message to the outgoing Miles-Labor Government, rejecting their policies on coal mining and royalties.

Coal Australia commissioned market research on public opinion of the coal industry.