Rinehart’s Hancock weighs $3.3 billion iron ore mine project
Hancock acquired a 51% interest in the Mt Bevan project from Legacy Iron Ore Ltd. and Hawthorn Resources.
Rural communities in Australia’s mineral-rich states are unhappy about the many working girls following highly-paid miners into their small towns.
The local newspaper of one tiny settlement, Mackay, reports motel and hotel owners in the region are kicking out prostitutes using their rooms to ply their trade.
It is legal for women to work as sole operators in Australia provided they don’t solicit in public and one so-called “coal-girl” recently sought $30,000 compensation through the Queensland Civil Administration Tribunal for economic loss from a hotel who told her to leave.
The Mackay Daily Mercury quotes a prostitute who goes by the name “Tiffany”:
“I know of women (prostitutes) who have bought Winnebagos and caravans – but even getting a booking at a caravan park is hard.”
Tiffany also believes sex crime will rise when working girls are forced out of Mackay:
“You can’t stick thousands of men in a town for a long period of time without very many women and expect there won’t be issues.”
The Courier Mail reported in November fly-in, fly-out “working girls” travelling from as far away as New Zealand to the remote mining regions of Queensland and Western Australia are making as much as $2,000 a day from mine labourers.
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Appfrict
I think mackay may be a little dissapointed at being descibed as a tiny settlement. Last time I looked tehre were about 120,000 people
Mikx77
Mackay is most definitley not a “tiny” settlement. Mackay contrinutes to a significant amount of the Queensland and Australian economy. Someone must have been using imaginepedia for thier research…….
Lummax
question begs, like the early goldrush days, was it the people searching for gold that made money or was it the people selling the shovels?
@ $2000 a day, i am starting to wonder why I studied engineering?
FoodProcessorVillain
Lummax you studied engineering so you wouldn’t have to fondle dirty people, suffer from STDs and see your salary decline as your assets wear and tear. 😉
Dav1942
The richest and largest silver mines in the USA. (Idaho) has had the ‘Ladies Of The Evening’ for over 100 years ‘servicing’ the hard working miners. We have had hardly any sex crimes during that time at all! The ‘ladies’ have been more than generous with the towns in “The Silver Valley” helping out when ever that they can/could. Without the ‘Girls’ to do their thing we would not be the safe, upstanding place to work & live that we are today. ‘Welcome Girls’, & we hope that you will be around for another 100 plus years plying your much needed trade!!!!!!!
Mike Whitney
Small towns should license and tax the girls. A portion of their profits should be dedicated to investments in public coal stocks. And income tax declarations should be insisted upon..Then they can be good and properly screwed – just like the ordinary citizen.
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