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Rural Australia calls politicians cowards for encouraging big mining firms' fly-in-fly-out attitude

Frik Els | October 28, 2011 | 5:48 pm Energy Precious Metals Australia Europe Coal Gold Iron Ore 

Rural communities in Queensland Australia are more than a little unhappy about state politicians and government agencies allowing mining firms like BHP to set up self-contained separate mining towns cut off from local communities or simply letting miners fly in...

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