Mount Isa City Council | come for work. “The reality is that fly-in, fly-out workers make little-to-no contribution to the community,” he says. “They just fly-in, earn their dollar and come back from whence they came. I don’t want to start World War III with fly-in, fly-out people, but when you talk about community, it’s essential that you have a static one where people who live there participate in community activities such as rotary clubs, lions clubs and the CWA.” “Having said that, I have to be fair to Mount Isa Mines,” he clarifies. “They don’t engage in the fly-in, fly-out practice. That practice has been engaged in by smaller mines surrounding Mount Isa.” When the current Council was elected in May 2012, they made boosting the economy through new business investment another one of their main priorities. On their second day in office, they even had signs erected outside the administration centre saying ‘We’re open for business again.’ According to Mayor McGrady, the city THE FUTURE IS HAPPENING
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