# Nick Baker

General Manager, Eastern Hub

## Career chronology

- **Current at 29 September 2026; start date not reported: Austral Resources** — General Manager, Eastern Hub. [Our Story and Leadership](<https://www.australres.com/our-story/>) (Leadership section, Eastern Hub)

- **Publicly documented by October 2025; exact start date not established: Austral Resources / Rocklands** — Site Senior Executive; current Eastern Hub General Manager. [New life for North-West Qld mine and manager](<https://industryqld.com.au/new-life-for-mine-and-manager/>) (20 October 2025, site executive and Rocklands restart role); [Our Story and Leadership](<https://www.australres.com/our-story/>) (29 September 2026, current Eastern Hub remit)

## Business failures and setbacks

### Rocklands predecessor entered administration before Austral takeover [nick_baker_rocklands_predecessor]

2024–2025 · documented · medium materiality

Industry Queensland reports that Copper Resources Australia entered administration in 2024 after failing to deliver planned higher-grade ore from Crusader; Austral acquired the subsidiary in 2025. Rocklands then went on care and maintenance for plant upgrades and mine-feed planning, with Baker named as site senior executive leading the restart. The article does not link Baker to the predecessor’s failure; his role is reported in the post-acquisition restart phase.

**Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. The administration preceded the documented post-sale site leadership; no personal responsibility or overlap is established.

**Relevance:** Context for the Eastern Hub’s restart and asset history, not an adverse individual finding.

[New life for North-West Qld mine and manager](<https://industryqld.com.au/new-life-for-mine-and-manager/>) (20 October 2025, paragraphs 114–140: administration, sale and restart strategy)

## Suitability for the current role

### Leadership role reconciled to cutoff-date issuer page [nick_baker_issuer_reconciled]

At cutoff 9 October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The dated issuer leadership page identifies Baker as Eastern Hub general manager; no start date or attributable outcome was established. An October 2025 industry profile also describes processing-operations experience and leadership of the Rocklands site restart; a separate secondary profile reports earlier electrical apprenticeship, MBA and technical diplomas, not independently verified.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Issuer leadership roles establish current functional scope, but career chronology and attributable outcomes are not adequately disclosed.

**Relevance:** Relevant to executive assessment; sources do not establish personal causation.

[Our Story and Leadership](<https://www.australres.com/our-story/>) (Leadership section, Eastern Hub); [New life for North-West Qld mine and manager](<https://industryqld.com.au/new-life-for-mine-and-manager/>) (20 October 2025, current SSE and restart responsibilities); [Nick Baker executive biography](<https://people.equilar.com/bio/person/nick-baker-austral-resources-australia-ltd/74662017>) (profile biography, employer-attributed; MBA and technical diplomas)

## Evidence gaps

- The issuer leadership page supplies no start date or full biography for this role.

- No independently attributable company outcome or comprehensive adverse-record check was established.