Not on Labor Minister Burke’s radar

Potential $1 billion coal miner wage theft not prioritised despite Senate call for investigation

Industrial relations minister Anthony Burke has yet to learn any details of a Senate-ordered investigation into the possible wage theft of more than $1 billion from coal miners in Queensland and NSW.

That's despite the request coming a fortnight ago.

Former coal miner and now One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts claimed that a group of miners came to him sa…