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1. It's not just miners who work 12-hour days. Tradesmen do so as well. As well as lawyers and executives. When I was a tradesman, I used to work 12-hour days and some guys would work even more, especially in this age of sub-contracting.
   Granted though the money when you are young is very good. Given the time again, I would work the 12-hour days so I could have more for a house deposit. Then again I wasn't married. Though other blokes were.
   The 8-hour day is nice, but only for shift and office workers. I still managed to go to Mass late in the evenings.

   Posted By: Geoffrey Halton

2. It is timely for Bishop Heenan to raise this matter. Anecdotal evidence and general obsrvation indicate that many miners live in communities quite some distance from the mines. Fatigue may be the cause of road deaths. The whole texture of life in Queensland (probably also in W.A.) is changing, with the giant mining boom and the insatiable appertite of China for coal, iron ore etc.
   Some miners live in Brisbane and fly to the mining areas to work. Queensland has a huge number of mine (and rail) projects on the drawing board.
   Bishop Heenan's obervations should be heeded.

   Posted By: Mackie

3. As Geoffrey stated there are many people who work 12 hour shifts, why single out one of the highest paid workers in the country? Don’t they have a union to look after their complaints?
   This sounds like the type of issue some in the Church might want to pursue so as to avoid doing the hard tasks God asks us to address.
   

   Posted By: Colin

4. I agree with Colin. Members of my family including my son in law with 3 children work 12 hours a day and they never complain. The Church's priority is to look after the spiritual wefare of our young ones and be vocal in the defence of the unborn child.

   Posted By: Ron Cini

5. This has been a pastoral issue all over Australia for years; surely it has been of concern to the clergy before now?

   Posted By: david anthony davies

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