ENVIRONMENT

Enough is enough

WESTERN Australia’s fly-in, fly-out mining industry has been told to change how it deals with sexual harassment, including stopping perpetrators simply moving on to new jobs, in a scathing report that lays bare the industry’s failure to protect its workers while also raising questions about why government and regulators were not better across the safety issues.

 Libby Mettam delivers the report on the steps of state parliament. Image by Karma Barndon.

Libby Mettam delivers the report on the steps of state parliament. Image by Karma Barndon.

The report Enough is enough: Sexual harassment against women in the FIFO mining industry, found that while key industry players and regulators had begun to make important improvements, the industry had...

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