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Industry supports fly in, fly out operations
2005
Overview
KERRY O'BRIEN: As the energy and mining industries boom, and in the shadow of tough new industrial relations laws, employers in some of Australia's remote regions are desperate to attract skilled workers. Increasingly they're flying those workers in, often thousands of kilometres, and then flying them back home for leave breaks in the capital cities. The fly in, fly out phenomenon is most extreme in Western Australia, where now only half the state's mine workers are drawn from homes close to the workplace. Politicians bemoan the paradox that bush towns continue to decline, even in the midst of a boom, but industry claims there's no easy solution. Mick [MICK O'DONNELL] reports. MICK O'DONNELL: But now, despite the unprecedented demand for the region's riches of red iron ore, the town's employer, Pilbara Iron, has changed its mind, switching Marandoo to a fly in, fly out work force. Workers like [KEVIN WALSH], who want to stay here, will actually lose pay, working different shifts on lower status at another local mine. MICK O'DONNELL: [Darren Morris] was trained by Pilbara Iron under an Indigenous employment program but he felt his connection to the land of his Banjama people was being forgotten in the move to fly in, fly out.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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