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y: Geraldine Mate Mining has dramatically altered the Queensland landscape. The open cut coal mines in central Queensland and the monumental mine and processing towers of Mount Isa demonstrate the inescapable impact of mining. The exploitation of mineral resources has been, and will continue to be, central to the Queensland economy. But mining has brought more than economic prosperity; it has brought about physical and environmental change, and altered the cultural mien. To many Queenslanders, mining is part of how they see themselves. The history of mining informs the primary school curriculum, countless small towns identify some piece of their past with mining and it is a point of debate in every state election. Weighed against the benefits are the environmental costs of the commitment to mining. www.qhatlas.com.au/content/mining

Given the unimaginable carnage the troops went through in this war of hell fire it is quite moving to see this.

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Beautiful capture absolutely lovely ! Well done!!



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The carnage was due to old and usless tactics. It has always taken men to die before the tactics get changed.

Photo caption from AWM: "A German prisoner 'getting his issue' at ration time in the prisoners of war (POW) compound (popularly termed the Bird Cage) at Hoograaf, the day after the Australian attack, on 4 October 1917, at Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres Sector, when many Germans were captured. The quality and quantity of our rations, of which the enemy prisoners received the same amount as British troops, amazed the Germans after their existence on meagre supplies of the poorest of food. "Taken October 5, 1917 at Western Front (Belgium), Ypres Area, Hoograaf"

The photographer was H. K. Binks

my grandfather was part of this army