FIFO in a time of pandemic: too big to fail?

Hundreds of boarded-up, vacant homes in the remote Western Australian mining town of Newman were a public relations problem for BHP last year when the squatters moved in.

But now as a global pandemic challenges the viability of the fly in, fly out (FIFO) workforce model that sustains BHP's flagship iron ore division, those empty homes loom as a precious option for the winter ahead.