The Chamber of Minerals and Energy has put the heat on government to support industry grappling with rising electricity costs in the state’s main grid.
A Perth company fined $975,000 over a workplace death will pay nothing while its two directors are due to get a $158,000 distribution from the company’s liquidators.
That is the surprising but entirely legal financial outcome from the tragic death of a 16-year-old worker at a factory in Welshpool three years ago.
The case concerns RPC Surface Treatment and its two directors and shareholders, Matthew Clarke and Michael Miller.
