Adoption of fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) or commute work systems in the Western Australian mining industry has increased rapidly over the last decade, with metropolitan Perth becoming the main source of labour and the base for major mining supply and service companies in the state. This situation has led to increasing concern on the part of many regiona ....
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FIFO employment is much talked about, but is not well understood. In remote areas of Australia today, and Western Australia particularly, it provides a significant and growing proportion of the workforce needed by the resources sector, and is anticipated to double within the next 3-5 years.
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Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
Published Location: Canberra, ACT
ISBN: 0731549449
Country: Australia
State/Region: Western Australia
Western Australia sits poised to reap huge benefits from a super-cycle of resource exploitation; labour demand is at an all-time high and challenges in securing an adequate labour supply are already evident; it is ironic then, that the very people whose land base is exploited to generate much of this wealth, who are often located i ....
Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
Published Location: Canberra, ACT
ISBN: 0731551087
Country: Australia
State/Region: Western Australia
The Northern East Kimberley region of Western Australia is facing a development crossroads with the need to make a decision on either the extension or closure of Argyle Diamond Mine. This region also has a major economic development problem in that half of its adult population is almost entirely Aboriginal, is highly dependent on w ....
The Pilbara is a remote arid region with a significant Aboriginal population, rich mineral resources and rapid rates of mineral resource development. Pilbara Aboriginal people claim deep ongoing connections to the land and water-scapes of the area and value water sources and features for a range of socio-cultural, economic and envi ....
Includes employment by industry, exploration, imports and exports, mineral resources, mineral commodities, mineral prices, production etc.
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Author: Soltanmohammadi, H; Osanloo, M; Rezaei, B; Bazzazi, A Aghajani
Journal Name: International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology : (IJEST)
Journal Number: Vol.5, No.4
Publisher: International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
Published Location: Tehran, Iran
Adoption of most suitable post mining land use is a problem with multi-dimensional nature. There are so many factors in this problem which seriously influence on the decision judgments. Therefore, in this study a fifty-attribute framework for mined land suitability analysis including fifty numbers of economical, social, technical and mi ....
Author: Thomas G Measham, Fiona Haslam McKenzie, Kieren Moffat, Daniel M Franks
Journal Name: Rural Society
Journal Number: Vol. 22, No. 2
Publisher: eContent Management Pty Ltd
Published Location: Maleny, Qld.
ISBN: 1037-1656
Country: Australia
Questions over the role of mining in the Australian economy and society have gained increasing public scrutiny in recent years. In this paper we consider whether the role of mining in Australian society has changed with the recent mining boom. The paper draws attention to four key areas. The first is the economics of mining, where a rise in commo ....
Publisher: National Centre for Vocational Education Research
Labour mobility is a complex concept because people change jobs for a variety of reasons, in different ways and with different outcomes for their lives and careers. This study explores what motivates people to change jobs and examines the influence of their employer, occupation or industry, and investigates their geographic mobility on either a p ....
Author: KPMG for the Minerals Council of Australia
Country: Australia
State/Region: All Regions
The Australian mining and resources sector has experienced unprecedented growth over the last decade. While the sector has seen a recent slowdown in growth, the long-term demand for Australian mineral resources will continue.There are mining projects in every state of Australia and a variety of minerals and resources are extracted from sites acro ....
In recent decades, many rural, natural resource-dependent communities have experienced ubiquitous and oftentimes substantial economic decline due to downturns in their commodity-oriented industries. In spite of this, communities with access to varying forms of natural capital have experienced an upsurge in activities such as recreation, ....
Author: David Brereton, Chris Moran, Gillian McIlwain, James McIntosh, Kailee Parkinson
Publisher: ACARP
Country: Australia
State/Region: New South Wales
This project, which is an example of cross-company collaboration, focuses on the challenges involved in dealing with cumulative, or multi-mine, impacts at the local level. The project builds on an earlier Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP)-funded project conducted in 2004, undertaken by the Centre for Social Respo ....
Until the 1970s mining leases were issued by state governments subject to conditions that companies build or substantially finance local community infrastructure, including housing, streets, transport, schools, hospitals and recreation facilities [Houghton (1993). Long-distance commuting: A new approach to mining in Australia. The ....
This article examines the impact of job losses from the mining industry, as a result of the end of the mining boom. In particular this article examines the migration of workers away from mining areas to regional centres and cities. This paper presents agriculture as the backbone of the Australian rural economy and highlights the opportunities&nbs ....