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Author - Richard Szabo

Richard Szabo is an award-winning editor with more than 17 years' experience in news writing at mainstream and niche media organisations. He has a specialty in mining and business reporting.

BHP workers

Stranded FIFO workers report working extended rosters

Remote mine personnel have complained about employers increasing the number of days they are scheduled to work due to state border restrictions. Thousands of fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers are unable...

Granites Gold Mine

FIFO worker passes COVID to family members

A remote mine employee transmitted the highly infectious Delta strain to his immediate family members. The wife and daughter of a fly-in fly-out (FIFO) worker, who contracted coronavirus (COVID-19)...

Undamine Industries

‘Inexperienced’ jobseekers sought in Central Qld

A Bowen Basin mining services company is looking for Queenslanders who have little to no industry experience. Undamine Industries is hiring multiple “inexperienced” miners who are able to...

FIFO charter plane

Employer offers FIFO workers six figure salary

A mining services company is offering Queenslanders lucrative wages for remote work. Fly-in fly-out (FIFO) mine employees across the Sunshine State have been offered thousands of dollars a week to...

BHP mine worker

Another mining giant seeks FIFO workers

A different multinational resources company is offering generous incentives to appeal to remote mine employees. BHP is trying to entice Queensland and Northern Territory fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers...

Westwood coal train wreck

Central Qld coal transport ends in tragedy

A routine resources delivery across Central Queensland’s Rockhampton region tragically ended in a workplace fatality. A Margate family is grieving the loss of a 49-year-old man whose life was...

BHP FIFO workers

Thousands of FIFO mine workers wanted

Mining companies are desperately trying to fill a large number of remote jobs that no one is available to perform. The resources sector needs to hire a further 40,000 workers between now and 2023...

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