Queensland is by far the worst offender and lives are being lost as a result.
SteeleRedux,
Were you to REALLY check you'd probably find that insipid bureaucrat parasites are indirectly/directly responsible for more lives lost.
Are you aware that many suicides are committed because of the idiotic & insensitive policies & rules & Laws by such bureaucrats ?

SteeleRedux, have you not heard of Work Place Safety, No worker, works in dust or smoke today. All transmission is with water, and workers live in air conditioned compartments.
This report is not conclusive, and it is done by the ABC which is against Coal:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-26/dozens-of-new-black-lung-cases-qld-advocates-say/10851482

You mean those 'radical misguided coal loving' VOTERS

How dare they have a right to vote Paul?

Like I don't have to live with the negative and detrimental consequences you idiots voting for Labor and the Greens cause right?

Isn't it free market capitalism?
Well in that case for the next 12 months I'd like to ONLY buy power that has been created through coal, just to spite you.
I don't want no wind or solar, NO, only COAL
It's my money I decide how it should be spent.

You see now we have 'demand for coal use'
Unless your saying I have no right to decide how my moneys spent;
Stop winging and shut-up.

Where can I buy a big bag of coal so I can burn it just for the hell of it?

My approach to coal is different to most. Have you heard the one about the coal the pea and the straw?

Well in the end, the coal fell into the river and drowned. It was a hot coal, so it fizzled out before it drowned.
The reason it fell into the river was its tenuous journey walking on the straw, which offered itself as a means to cross the river safely to the pea and the coal.

Unfortunately for them all, the pea created a disturbance which was enough to slow the hot coal on his crossing, burning the straw, which also fell into the river and drowned.

What of the pea, you may ask?
The pea was sewn up by a travelling tailor who happened along, after the pea split its sides laughing at the death of the straw and the coal. It became a black eyed pea, since the tailor was out of all cotton except black.

So maybe we should grow indigenous black eyed peas, and not mine for coal, since coal is dead, along with the straw that broke the camels back.

Hope this all makes sense!

Dan?