The Carmichael Mine: Adani's Galilee Basin Project and What It Revealed About Queensland
The Carmichael Mine became more than a resource project. It became a mirror — reflecting Queensland's economic dependencies, democratic fractures, and the unresolved tensions between extraction and everything it costs.
The Bowen Basin: The Coal Province That Made Queensland a Resource State
Beneath 60,000 square kilometres of Central Queensland lies the geological fact that has defined the state's modern identity: the Bowen Basin, the largest coal reserve in Australia.
Queensland Coal: The Industry That Has Defined the State's Fiscal History
From Ipswich's earliest shafts to the Bowen Basin's colossal open-cuts, coal has shaped Queensland's public finances, regional geography, and civic identity in ways that outlast any single price cycle.
Mining Towns of the Bowen Basin: Moranbah, Dysart and the Communities Coal Built
Moranbah and Dysart were not discovered — they were designed. The Bowen Basin's mining towns are a civic experiment in what it means to build a community around a single, exhaustible resource.
Metallurgical Coal vs Thermal Coal: Understanding Queensland's Export Distinction
Queensland's coal industry is not a single story. The distinction between metallurgical and thermal coal defines the state's place in global trade, its fiscal position, and its contested future.
Queensland Coal and the Energy Transition: What Decarbonisation Means for the State
Queensland holds one of the world's great coal provinces and one of the world's most complex decarbonisation problems. What the transition actually demands of the state is harder than either side admits.
Coal Miners of Queensland: The Workforce at the Centre of the Transition Debate
Queensland's coal miners are not an abstraction in the energy transition debate. They are a workforce of tens of thousands whose conditions, safety record, and uncertain futures define how the state must navigate decarbonisation.
Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay: The Ports That Ship Queensland's Wealth
Forty kilometres south of Mackay, two coal terminals have quietly transformed the global steel industry. The story of Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay is the story of Queensland's fiscal architecture made physical.
Coal Royalties and Queensland's Budget: The Revenue Queensland Cannot Yet Afford to Lose
Coal royalties have defined Queensland's fiscal architecture for decades. As prices fall and the energy transition accelerates, the state confronts a reckoning it has long deferred.
Green Steel and the Coking Coal Question: How Long Will Metallurgical Coal Last?
The rise of hydrogen-based steelmaking challenges the long-held assumption that metallurgical coal is insulated from energy transition pressures. Queensland's answer is more complicated than either side admits.
From Mine to Market: Queensland's Coal Export Supply Chain
Queensland's coal export system is one of the most intricate industrial supply chains on Earth — a 2,670-kilometre network of rail, port, and sea that moves nearly 200 million tonnes a year.