A child psychologist has told a Queensland court today that a nine year-old boy driving a 30-tonne front-end loader for the past three years was "not exploited."
Dr Michael Beech, a child psychologist was appearing in an Industrial Court case concerning the case of a boy working at the Mt Cotton quarry southeast of Brisbane.
He told the court if you asked the boy, Dane how he likes driving the machinery, "he'd say he was doing it for fun."
The quarry belongs to the boy's multi-millionaire grandfather Dirk Karreman who is seeking to overturn a State Government ban preventing the boy from working the heavy machinery.
According to an article in today's Courier Mail, the boy was operating a 30-tonne front end loader, bobcat and excavator for up to 10 hours a day since the age of six.
The hearing is ascertaining whether or not the child could be injured or killed working in the quarry.
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