'Better than my house': Five-star FIFO housing woos workers

Mineral Resources has officially opened Mungala Resort, a caller fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) accommodation installation astatine its robust ore excavation tract adjacent Onslow, Western Australia. 

The resort, described arsenic an Australian first, intends to prioritise nan wellness and wellbeing of its workers.

The installation features 500 rooms, each 3 times nan size of a modular donga, including individual bathroom, kitchenette and laundry facilities. 

Currently, 23 couples are domiciled astatine nan resort. 

FIFO worker Cory Cruttenden described nan accommodation arsenic "second to none".

"I've had thing for illustration this successful my experience," he said.

His partner, Deni Latus, besides a resident astatine nan facility, was likewise impressed.

"I bought a location and I would opportunity this is really amended than my location currently," she said.

"It is simply a spot of a holiday, it is bully up here."

Dump motortruck usability Lisa Vines likened it to "the Club Med of nan Pilbara, if not Australia".

"We each consciousness respected and weighted and nary 1 wants to time off — everyone wants to travel here," she said.

The resort's amenities see an 18-hole miniature play course, racing and play simulators, hoops and tennis courts, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and a gym. An onsite edifice and tavern supply astir 175,000 dinners annually. 

The edifice is located alongside nan MinRes Ken's Bore airdrome and is simply a 20-minute thrust from nan excavation tract wherever crushed ore is loaded onto roadworthy trains for carrier to nan Port of Ashburton, 150 kilometres away.

Mineral Resources Director People Andrea Chapman said nan caller accommodation whitethorn broaden nan entreaty of FIFO work. 

"People that antecedently whitethorn not person considered FIFO an action are now becoming much open-minded to it, and that includes women," she said. 

"But successful summation to it being beautiful, it is besides safe."

This article was produced pinch nan assistance of 9ExPress.