| Workers discuss peak downs mine reunion from my brother Sydney: Is there a difference? Barry Ginn: The difference between going to work and having a baby is that I could look forward to taking care of my family and doing the most amazing job I possibly could in a busy and hard workplace and just let it all hang out. I can't take that away from them. They know they're doing what they have to do to get ahead. Barry Ginn is the former president and CEO of Bayswater Resources, a publicly traded Australian firm. The son of a miner and an ex-smelter worker, Ginn rose through the ranks in Australia's iron mining industry before leading the charge to combat climate change. His success story is widely known but his personal struggles are a different story. He tells Rolling Stone that when he got to work a little more than a decade ago, he faced a number of downsides, including: High inflation on a national scale. The end of his family. He couldn't find work. He says his job experience has been inspirational, even as he's struggled, but it's time for a personal awakening. "I've been told I'm lucky and I'm not. They want you to know that you don't have to do what I did. In many ways, I'm still doing the same things I was before. But I think it's time for me to let it go. I'm a man and I've worked all my life, and I'll have done it again by the time I'm 80 or 90 years old." How does Barry Ginn approach his own journey to retirement? It starts with my wife, Marisa. We haven't lived together since I was a child. She went to the hospital. There are no words to describe how bad it feels. As we get older, things start to go out of whack for me. I'm able to talk to her more and feel more confident about myself. I start to look forward to the future. A lot of my relationships and career successes are based on having kids, but I think the key is to have relationships that last even longer. To that extent, I have a lot of faith in myself and the company that I built at the beginning. I have so much respect for those who came before me people like my wife, my brothers and my sisters. That feeling of being the luckiest individual in the world, even though, as a parent, that is very challenging, has made me stronger as a human being and a father, which is exactly what you need when a child has a very heavy burden. Barry
Govt playing politics over warship claims minchin says is nothing to do with China
Minchin says there is no problem between China and India at all China has "no desire" to intervene in the internal affairs of India, despite the row over the disputed Brahmaputra basin. Foreign Affairs Secretary S Jaishankar met with the defence chiefs of the two countries on Monday and had informed them that "an Indian deployment in the waters off Chinese territory is nothing to do with the territorial disputes between the two countries". Jaishankar also pointed out that China's claims over the region are not rooted in territorial disputes, but they were "conceived by China's leaders to be a way of showing its power. They are designed to embarrass India. They are designed to make our Indian leadership look weak", he told reporters in New Delhi. "There is no reason why India should have to exercise military control over the international space. That is already their responsibility. They have done it for 20 years and they have been winning, but they never really exercised that authority that way] or exercised that authority to the extent in the past," Jaishankar said, referring to the 1962 war with China which broke out when Chinese forces landed in the Bay of Bengal to try and seize control over the entire peninsula from India. Jaisankar said India has been "very clear that we will not deploy vessels to the disputed waters to assert Indian sovereignty over them" but they have always been directed to respect Indian territorial waters which China claims in a way that is beyond the reach of Indian sovereignty, and if India wants to assert its sovereignty over those waters, it should also exercise its sovereignty to what extent it wants, not just what the Indian government has authorised". "In other words, they will stay out of Chinese waters, if they need to be with the intention of making a territorial claim or making a military claim. If it's a case where you have a need for surveillance to protect Indian sovereignty, if it's a case where you need to exercise certain degree of restraint, we have no objections if the Chinese do that. That's their call and responsibility and to us, it's none of our business," he added. China claims the islands at least in part because the land on which it is build is owned by India. Chinese construction company BDA has proposed the construction of a new road on one of the islands and is preparing to construct a second road to the island of Tso Shan, on the other side of the disputed territory, to cut through the contested and uninhabited land, the Indian Embassy in Beijing has said. The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not react to Jaishankar's statement. Jaisankar also claimed the Chines |
