Yeeles holds the position of Corporate Affairs Manager at BHP Billiton[4] and was appointed Approvals and Community Director of the Australian Securities Exchange listed uranium explorer and prospective mining company Toro Energy in October 2009.
[5] Yeeles entered the resource sector in 1996,[6] having previously held several key senior positions within the Government of South Australia including Chief of Staff for both the Premier and Opposition Leader, Press Secretary and Manager of Public Relations.
[8] Yeeles began his professional life as a cadet journalist for the ABC and is the editor and author of two books about former South Australian premier, Don Dunstan.
The council provides advice to the trustee administering payments to Aboriginal people in northern South Australia under the terms of the Olympic Dam Agreement.
"[13] Kanck's allegation claimed that waste precipitated to the bottom of one of the very large separation tanks and set like cement and that workers were contaminated on the first day of excavation.
He also stated that there was no contact between the fire and any radioactive material, and that the wind was blowing from the south (suggesting that any smoke would travel away from the township of Roxby Downs).
The statement was refuted by marine ecologist Bronwyn Gillanders of the University of Adelaide who published scientific research demonstrating the vulnerability of the animals' eggs to local increases in salinity.
The book purports to contain "new perspectives on the controversies of his life, including some personally corrupt behavior, the sacking of a police commissioner and his banning of uranium mining" with reference to documentary evidence.