Mining remains one of the world’s most dangerous occupations, and Cessnock is still regarded as the heartland of the Hunter coal industry.
Each year, members of the United Mineworkers Federation and their families gather at the town’s memorial wall to remember the 1,800 miners killed in Northern District accidents over the past 200 years.
National official Ian Murray lost his son, Damon, in the 1996 Gretley disaster.
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