A coal mine truck driver who raised safety concerns and then sued her employer and 12 others has had her case thrown out - six attempts later.
The Federal Court of Australia struck out the worker's statement of claim on October 8, 2026, and refused to let her try again. The document she filed - a formal outline of her legal case - was the sixth version she had produced since launching the proceeding in November 2024.
The worker had been employed as a haul truck operator at the Coppabella Mine in central Queensland - part of the Coppabella-Moorvale Joint Venture majority-owned by NYSE-listed Peabody Energy - from January 2023 until her dismissal on May 23, 2024.
Between March and May 2024, she raised multiple safety concerns at the mine, including issues with respirable dust in truck cabins. After her employment ended, she brought claims under three separate pieces of legislation: whistleblower protections under the Corporations Act, adverse action provisions under the Fair Work Act, and reprisal protections under Queensland's Coal Mining Safety and Health Act. She named 13 respondents - four Peabody corporate entities, the US parent company, and eight individual managers and executives.
The scale alone was striking. The case generated 121 filed documents, two earlier interlocutory judgments, and an appellate decision - all before anyone got near the question of whether the claim was fit for trial.
The problem, the court found, was not that the worker lacked arguable...
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