IN DEVELOPMENTneeds corroboration
The shift that outlasted the mine
Concept for a character-led piece about a maintenance crew at a decommissioned regional operation, built from public-record employment and closure data.
Period: 1990s to present
Stories
Character-led and historic reporting about Australian mining: the people who worked the sites, the towns built around them, and what the public record shows happened next.
These are story concepts in development, not yet published articles.
Concepts in development
IN DEVELOPMENTpublic-record sources
Boom towns on the ledger
Concept comparing historic town budgets and royalty records against operating life of nearby mines.
Period: 1960s-1980s
IN DEVELOPMENTpublic-record sources
What a failed float left behind
Concept tracing a lapsed public offer through prospectus filings, deregistration notices and court listings.
Period: 2000s
IN DEVELOPMENTlead only
The road, the camp and the water licence
Concept examining infrastructure conditions attached to approvals in a remote district.
Period: 2010s
How we treat first-hand recollections
Recollections shared with us are treated as leads, not as publishable material. Before anything runs we obtain the participant's informed permission, corroborate the account against documents or a second source, and check every factual claim. Where a claim cannot be corroborated we either say so plainly or leave it out. Anyone can withdraw consent before publication.