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Thousands apply for a job at Qld's Adani coal mine | Sky News AustraliaMore than 14,000 people have expressed interest in working at the Adani Carmichael mine in Queensland. \n\nMore than 5,000 people who lodged interest were unemployed, and 4,000 of those unemployed for more than a month. \n\nWith above six per cent unemployment in the state, Queensland has the second highest unemployment rate in the country. \n\nIf the mine is approved, it is expected to create 1,500 direct jobs and 6,750 supporting jobs. \n\n\n\n
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‘Hysterical' campaign against Adani ignores Queenslanders ‘desperate’ for jobs | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Andrew Bolt says the activists against the Adani mine are ignoring unemployed Queenslanders that are ‘desperate’ for jobs.\n\nMr Bolt says the mine would generate 8000 jobs, earning Australia millions of dollars in royalties and taxes, that could be used for hospitals, schools and the police force.\n\nThe Queensland Labor government is more than $70 billion in debt, and Mr Bolt says the profits for the mine would benefit taxpayers looking at the state’s ‘dangerous deficit’.\n\n\n\n\n
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We’ve ‘endured’ eight challenging years to ready the mine: Adani Mining CEO | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Adani Mining CEO Lucas Dow has told Sky News he’s frustrated over the ‘eleventh hour’ red tape the Queensland Government has produced, stalling the beginning of the company's mine in the Galilee Basin by at least two months.\n\nMr Dow says his company has been working through a barrage of more than 100 state and federal conditions for eight years, the ‘most strangest environmental conditions ever imposed on a project’.\n\nHe says all Adani Mining asks is to be treated like ‘every other Australian miner’ with clear process and timing. \n\nImage: supplied \u002F News Corp Australia \n\n
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Turkey seeks arrest of US basketball star over 'ties to terror group' | Sky News AustraliaTurkey is seeking an international arrest warrant for a US basketball player - claiming he has ties to a terror organisation.\n\nNBA star Enes Kanter, who plays for the New York Knicks, has emphatically rejected the allegations against him, tweeting: 'The only thing I terrorize is the rim.\n\n'Turkish Government can NOT present any single piece of evidence of my wrongdoing. I don't even have a parking ticket in the US. I have always been a law-abiding resident.'\n\nProsecutors are seeking an Interpol Red Notice after claiming that Kanter has ties to the exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who was blamed for a failed coup in Turkey in 2016.\n\nThe sports star is also accused of providing financial support to Gulen's group.\n\n\n\n\n
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Leader of group behind Bali bombings granted early parole | Sky News AustraliaThe spiritual leader of the terror group behind the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed more than 200 people, will reportedly be released from jail in the coming days.\n\nIndonesian media is reporting that Abu Bakar Bashir will be granted parole because of his advanced age and ill health.\n\nThe 81-year-old has served nine years of a 15-year jail term.\n\n\n\n
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Spiritual leader of group behind Bali bombings to walk free: Joko Widodo | Sky News AustraliaThe 81-year-old spiritual leader of the terrorists behind the Bali bombings will walk free from jail in a matter of days, Indonesian President Joko Widodo has confirmed.\n\nIndonesia's president is granting Abu Bakar Bashir release six years early due to his ailing health, a decision infuriating families of victims and survivors.\n\nIn 2002, the explosions killed 202 people including 88 Australians. \n\n\n\n
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