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Coal Australia Seeks Urgent Royalty Reform as Budget Locks in Unsustainable Rates
The Queensland State Budget has missed a critical opportunity to ease pressure on the state’s resources sector, instead doubling down on the world’s highest coal royalty regime — a policy that threatens to fast-track mine closures, wipe out regional jobs, and jeopardise the future of Queensland’s most vital industry.

500 Jobs at Risk as Queensland’s Punitive Royalty Regime Pushes Another Mine Towards Closure
The reality of another Queensland coal mine being pushed to the brink, just three years after opening, is more evidence the former Labor Government’s royalty regime is crushing Queensland’s biggest industry, with regional jobs at risk.

Coal Australia Proudly Supports Landmark Sydney Mining Club Event
Coal Australia was the headline sponsor of this week’s milestone 300th Sydney Mining Club lunch, with an all-star coal mining cast taking to the stage at the sell-out event on Thursday, 5 June 2025.

Media Release: Coal Australia Hits the Court with Maitland Mustangs for Heritage Round
Coal Australia was proud to be courtside in Maitland to support the Maitland Mustangs basketball team, ahead of its Heritage Round Sunday, 1 June 2025.

Media Release: Coal Australia Powers Local Debate with Federal Election Candidates in Capricornia
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.

Media Release: Coal Australia Powers Local Debate with Federal Election Candidates in Whitlam and Cunningham
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.

Media Release: Coal Australia Powers Local Debate with Federal Election Candidates in Hunter and Paterson
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.

Media Release: Federal Budget risks Australia’s coal-powered prosperity
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.

Media Release: Qld Labor haunts coal mining sector
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.

Media Release: GST funding carve up confirms Queensland Coal Royalties pain
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.