Jane Brunton (ILF2019) & Burkhard Seifert (ILF2020)
InDaily
It has been a tumultuous month for BHP in South Australia as it juggled a takeover of OZ Minerals, won government approval to expand its highly prospective Oak Dam holdings and faced scrutiny over a worker dying at its Olympic Dam copper mine.
Hardly surprising that one of the world’s largest mining companies is managing multiple issues on its frontline – more remarkable is how these issues are of increasing importance to South Australians.
BHP reported in its Economic Contribution Report last September that it was employing more than 10,000 South Australians and spent $1 billion with local suppliers in the previous financial year.