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Be suspicious of claims the mining industry creates non-mining jobs

  • Written by John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society and NATSEM, University of Canberra
Be suspicious of claims the mining industry creates non-mining jobsKetut Subiyanto/Pexels, CC BY

Emblematic of the sort of claims that put the “con” into economics was an assertion by the Queensland Resources Council last year that “the resources sector employs 372,000 Queenslanders”.

The number employed in mining was 66,000, but the council claimed to have used input-output tables in the...

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