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DARK SECRETS: Mining and energy union calls for clearer path from coal to renewable clean energy | Rare Historical Photos

David Ashen retired from the Meandu coal mine as its longest-serving member.  (ABC Wide Bay: Audrey Courty)

David Ashen retired three years ago but he still tinkers around in a local Men's Shed as a way of keeping busy after 34 years of working in a Queensland coal mine. 

The 70-year-old started as a mining operator at Meandu, about 200 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, when it opened in 1985 and finished as a trainer-assessor in 2020.

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