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The FIFO agenda

BREAKING the “mines culture” in Central Queensland towns was a corporate motivation for introducing 100% fly-in, fly-out coal mining operations according to one of the 27 public submissions into the state’s FIFO inquiry.

Blair Price
A submission to the Qld inquiry into FIFO work practices suggest the 100% FIFO policy is linked to corporate agenda.

A submission to the Qld inquiry into FIFO work practices suggest the 100% FIFO policy is linked to corporate agenda.

Mackay-based Christine Ellrot, who mentioned cases of Mackay-based tradesmen who are being effectively forced by their employers to move to either Cairns or Sunshine Coast, linked corporate agendas to...

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