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March 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Mining giant bosses have snubbed two central Queensland families concerned about the impact fly-in fly-out workers are having on their communities.
Russell and Denise Robertson, from Moranbah, and Frank and Maureen Johnston, from Dysart, drove to BHP’s headquarters in Melbourne on Tuesday to talk to BHP chief executive Marius Kloppers.
They were joined by Charles Firth, co-founder of satire group The Chaser, who put on a barbecue inviting Mr Kloppers to speak to the families.
But the group said they waited for nearly two hours and no mining representative bothered to talk to them.
Mr Johnston said they wanted to convince Mr Kloppers to come and visit their communities and see for himself the destructive effects of a large fly-in fly-out and drive-in drive-out workforce.
These included exorbitant rents, shrinking populations, the exodus of doctors and other professionals, a loss of community involvement and the collapse of sporting and social clubs, to name a few.
BHP was saving on money needed to house a permanent workforce but in the process eroding these communities, he said.
“We reckon if Marius Kloppers came and saw for himself what the mining boom is doing to our towns he’d be making sure that more is done for our communities,” he said.
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