Australian: THE Rudd Government’s emissions trading scheme will cost 23,510 mining jobs over the next decade – almost half of them in Queensland – according to new modelling released as parliament prepares to decide the fate of the controversial climate change legislation. Treasury modelling for the Government found the ETS would have only a small net effect on total employment over a decade, but did not identify winners and losers in the economic upheaval as jobs were shed in some industries and …