In recent months both the Queensland and the Western Australian governments have been flipping back and forth in a ‘will we’ or ‘won’t we’ ban 100% FIFO mining sites.
On the one hand they say that the current arrangements are having an effect on regional towns, taking jobs away from the locals and not pushing any money back into their local economies, and in a weird far away delusional reality they may be right to some extent, but I’m not sure they are in this case.
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