| Mount Isa City Council A MORE LIVEABLE CITY about the future. On top of that, the Century mine – Australia’s largest open zinc mine, developed in 1997 – is about to close, along with some other smaller mines. “But that’s natural,” Mayor McGrady says. “In the mining industry, you know that the ore body of a mine will one day run out of ore. It’s one of life’s three certainties, along with death and taxes.” “But I’ve been here since 1963, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned in that time, it’s that the resources sector has its peaks and troughs,” he continues. “While we may currently be in a trough, it will turn around, and the greatest days of north-west Queensland are still ahead of us. That’s my honest belief.” Currently, one of Mount Isa City Council’s main goals is encouraging more people to come, settle down and live in the city. Mayor McGrady is opposed to the concept of ‘fly-in, fly-out,’ and he – along withMount Isa Mines, the Mount Isa Chamber of Commerce and the rest of the CityCouncil – have worked closely together to come up with an alternative. “We got together and we appointed consultants to come to us with a plan as to what we could do to make Mount Isa a more live-
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