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Release Date    2012.05.30
Air Date        2012.05.28
Genre           Documentary / Investigative

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Casualties of the Boom

By Andrew Fowler and Peter Cronau

It's been described as the boom that keeps on giving - an export
bonanza that will help Australia ride through a world-wide economic
downturn. Across the country, workers have left their jobs to make
big money in the mining industry. In the rush to exploit the
country's natural resources employers have all but set aside the
idea of building or expanding communities. Instead they pay big
wages to fly-in, fly-out or drive-in, drive-out workers, encouraging
them to work long shifts, leaving them with little reason to become
part of the local community.

This week, reporter Andrew Fowler looks at the impact of this rush
to riches. Taking the cameras into Moranbah, in the heart of
Queensland's Bowen Basin, he visits locals that can't get medical
treatment, the families who say they are frightened to go out on the
streets at night because of violence and he finds out why businesses
are closing down.

The local businesses that do benefit from the boom are hotels,
motels and real estate agents as house prices and rents skyrocket.

Things have become so bad in Moranbah that local residents voted the
council out and gave the new mayor a mandate to rehabilitate the
town. The question is: what can a local government do in the face of
multi-billion dollar developments that are delivering State and
Federal governments a massive boom in revenue. Can towns like this
be saved?

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/05/25/3510948.htm

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