Thread: FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR COAL NOW.....

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Once you have done fifo for a while it wears thin....foreign workers may put up with it better.

Alot of the Phillipino and Indian workforce that were here on construction were on 1 year on/1 month off, be pretty hard to deter them

Originally Posted by rovercare

Lots of Indians here to, $4k US/month...same deal though, they generally need "guidance" and work quality standards are, well...interesting

surely to hell you could get aussies there for $1K a week?

Originally Posted by incisor

surely to hell you could get aussies there for $1K a week?

Over that a day

Let's hope any 457 visas are to fill real shortages, not optimistic,

Let's hope Aussie workers will accept a fair days pay for a fair days pay and not price themselves out, not optimistic, again.

And ideally FIFO is minimized, and some local communities are developed.

Not a fan of FIFO, by my PNG experience, the emphasis is on the Company and Worker filling their pockets and bolting, when the expat family lives there there is a chance schools, medical, and other developments will occur. I imagine FIFO in Oz is not too dissimilar.

We tend to call them seagulls, ......

Gina's Roy Hill Project is well under way. I was an Emergency Services Officer up there in Port Headland for a while. All four rail camps and the mine are live and the rail corridor is being forged. There's also an airport that's live and can accept a 747... Re foreign workers... Madness. There's many who'd want to fill the spaces, they just need to make it nicer for the family's.. 2 wks on 2 wks off, running two shifts. Worked for me. Oz needs to look after its own and not import too many more, as the country will change for the worse.. It has in Europe...

Originally Posted by AndyG

Let's hope any 457 visas are to fill real shortages, not optimistic,

Let's hope Aussie workers will accept a fair days pay for a fair days pay and not price themselves out, not optimistic, again.

And ideally FIFO is minimized, and some local communities are developed.

Not a fan of FIFO, by my PNG experience, the emphasis is on the Company and Worker filling their pockets and bolting, when the expat family lives there there is a chance schools, medical, and other developments will occur. I imagine FIFO in Oz is not too dissimilar.

We tend to call them seagulls, ......

This little seagull has the pleasure of teaching a team of nationals how to do his job, I certainly wouldn't go in country personally as spectacular as it is here in places, the rest of it...well..

Seen the misima mine documentary? there is alot to be said about education in keeping a community alive once the cash cow has passed

Aussies are overpriced, have been for along time and with that comes a large cost of living, its all relevant

Originally Posted by incisor

surely to hell you could get aussies there for $1K a week?

There is not need, they have to work for the dole now.

Originally Posted by incisor

surely to hell you could get aussies there for $1K a week?

It depends on the deal. Are accommodation and meals included? Where I am at the moment I have to pay for that myself, and I don't know whether you have noticed, Australia is a very expensive place to live.