Lachie Samuel was just 28 years old when he was evacuated from his worksite in Western Australia after telling his superintendent that if he went back into his room, he might never come out.
At 19, he left his home of New Zealand, jumped on a plane – and ended up in Perth.
“I thought it was Penrith,” he laughed.
“I had no idea where I was going.”
But what was meant to be a fresh start quickly turned into 10 years of fly-in, fly-out (Fifo) work in the Western Australian mines – long hours, big pay packets, and silence so loud it nearly killed him.
NZ Herald
Face of the Day
What was meant to be a fresh start quickly turned into 10 years of fly-in, fly-out (Fifo) work in the Western Australian mines – long hours, big pay packets and silence so loud it nearly killed him.
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