Blogs

Construction and other earthmoving associated industries are facing some headwinds at present. It’s easy to simply complain about it, but the ones who will outperform others are those who live by the old saying “when the going gets tough, the tough get going”. There are some obvious things that all businesses can do, but perhaps […]

QLD Rock Breakers are now the Official Rammer Dealer for QLD and South Pacific Islands.

Landing in a tax mess Our society would cease to function if we didn’t have tax revenue. So it is important that taxes are collected fairly, and that they are used effectively. Not many taxes are more unfair than those around property. But that only affects the rich property owners, so who cares, right? Not […]

Thank you, Miners! Australia this month will have its first current account surplus since 1975 – all thanks to the near doubling of resources exports from $160 billion in 2016 to $275 billion just three years later. Did you know that resources now account for three-quarters of Australia’s goods exports? Our top three exports (iron […]

Are we looking at safety the right way? The workplace fatality rate over the past decades has halved (refer to graph), and whilst every death is one too many, maybe we’re looking at the wrong areas (particularly in bang for our bucks we have hit the wall of diminishing returns) to further improve the wellbeing […]

We have shared with you before stories of theft against our company. In the last 12 months, we’ve had three theft events against our business. We are proud that in two of those events, we managed to track down the stolen goods and perpetrators ourselves (the third one we aren’t sure, because the victim never […]

With a busy June and EOFY behind us, it’s time to reflect and share some news and updates from our Qld Rock Breakers team.