Lilyvale Stand Monument
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Lilyvale Stand Monument, 2009
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| Location | Lilyvale Road, Crinum, Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 23°12′42″S 148°20′54″E / 23.2118°S 148.3483°ECoordinates: 23°12′42″S 148°20′54″E / 23.2118°S 148.3483°E |
| Built | 1998 |
| Official name: Lilyvale Stand Monument | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 2 April 2004 |
| Reference no. | 602167 |
| Significant period | 1990s (fabric) 1997-1999 (historical, protest period) |
| Significant components | plaque, memorial - wall |
 Location of Lilyvale Stand Monument in Queensland
Location of Lilyvale Stand Monument in Queensland
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Lilyvale Stand Monument is a heritage-listed memorial at Lilyvale Road, Crinum, Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1998. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 2 April 2004.
The Lilyvale Stand Monument was constructed in 1998 by a group of dismissed mine workers from the Gordonstone Coal Mine (later renamed by Rio Tinto to Kestral Coal Mine). Following their dismissal, the mine workers commenced a protest line in early October 1997, which was to continue for 22 months, until August 1999, becoming Australia's longest running black coal dispute.
The Gordonstone Coal Mine, an underground coal mine located approximately 62 kilometres north-east of Emerald, commenced operations in 1992. The life of the mine was thought to be about 25 years, with the project being undertaken as a joint venture by ARCO (an American oil company), Mitsui (a Japanese coal trader) and Australian company MLC. ARCO was the senior partner with 80% ownership. At the time, over $500 million was invested in the project. By 1996-97, total raw coal produced at Gordonstone Coal Mine was 4.4 million tonnes, breaking world production records for an underground coal mine.
Shortly after the federal Workplace Relations Act 1996 became law in mid-1997, 312 miner workers at the Gordonstone Coal Mine were dismissed, as the miners were not interested in accepting the company's direction that mine workers surrender conditions in their certified Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA). The 312 mine workers, members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), resisted the company's attempts for them to agree to new terms, considering them unacceptable. The new agreements were products of the Workplace Relations Act, which established Australian Workplace Agreements as individual contracts between employer and employee instead of collective bargaining through Enterprise Bargaining Agreements. Considerable industrial trouble has resulted from enforcement of this provision.
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