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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 15/07/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3841">Alex Snowdon</a></span></div><p>A huge march by striking miners and their supporters on July 12 was attacked by riot police.</p>
<p>Huge crowds of protesters, marching on the offices of the ministry of industry, came under attack from police firing rubber bullets. The ministry is a focus for protest because it is cutting subsidies to the mining industry by 63%. </p>
<p>This will lead to thousands of miners losing their jobs. Unions estimate that as many as 30,000 jobs will be scrapped.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51638" target="_blank">read more</a></p>