Queensland Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller has used a budget estimates hearing to call for a royal commission into the "disgraceful" re-emergence of black lung disease.
There have been 11 confirmed cases of pneumoconiosis so far, with 17,000 X-rays yet to be processed, while there are currently 5500 underground workers in Queensland and 10,000 open cut workers.
"I ask sincerely, as a coal miner's daughter, and on behalf of the coal families across Queensland will you please consider a royal commission into black lung in Queensland," Ms Miller said to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at Tuesday's hearing.
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