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Government Taskforce

By Gavin Moreira

Identifying extractive resources Dr Elizabeth Gibson reports on the recent Minerals Development Victoria (MDV) meeting. ELIZABETH Gibson met with Anthony Hurst (Executive Director, Earth Resources Development), Adrian Panow and Fiona Clarke of Department of State Development, Business and Innovation (DSDBI) in Melbourne on the 4 March 2014. The meeting was to discuss implementation of aspects …

CMPA Guarding Workshop

By Gavin Moreira

DR ELIZABETH GIBSON, General Manager CMPA, provides a summary on the Guarding Workshop. THE CMPA Guarding Workshop was held at William Adams on Thursday, 13 February, 2014. CMPA Secretariat reports on the successful Workshop recently held in Laverton for CMPA members. The Workshop began with a brief introduction from Mark Harkins of William Adams who …

CMPA NEWS (Issue 73)

By Gavin Moreira

Site Visits – Northern Victoria ELIZABETH Gibson and Adrian Town (Development Manager) undertook site visits in a very hot Northern Victoria over 3 days in early February 2014. The site visits included voting members as well as potential voting and Associate members. Voting members visited included Goulburn Valley Resources, Seymour; Adornato Sands & Gravel Supplies, …

Evans Quarries – Over 60 Years in the Business

By Gavin Moreira

THE DONOHUE FAMILY, celebrated over 60 years in the industry in 2013. IN THE early 1950’s William [Bill] Donohue won a contract to supply beach sand to a company cleaning corroding cast iron water pipelines. This sand was sourced from the Cape Paterson foreshore. He hand shovelled sand into his truck, delivering it to the …

From The Secretariat (Issue 73)

By Gavin Moreira

Meeting with Chief of Staff Con Allimonos DR ELIZABETH GIBSON, reports on the meeting with the Chief of Staff, Con Allimonos. A MEETING in February was held in Melbourne with the Chief of Staff to the Minister for Energy and resources, Con Allimonos; Adviser Luke Scott to the Minister for Energy and resources and Dr …