Gold, sweat and tears: sexual harassment scandal of Australia's fly-in, fly-out miners

Lured by influencers selling a dream of riches in the Outback, young Europeans are discovering the dark side of working in the country's mining sector.

- By Niamh Rowe

Somewhere in the Australian Outback, young women in overalls dance in unison. Against a background of red earth, they twirl and stomp their desert boots. It’s a performance worthy of a thousand clicks.

Online, an unlikely workforce has found an audience: Australia’s fly-in, fly-out (Fifo) miners.

These labourers fly thousands of miles to extract iron ore and gold in Western Australia, or dig for coal in Queensland. Two weeks of 12-hour days in the scorching sun and prison-like campsites. But then? Two weeks off - with thousands of dollars to spend. Rinse and repeat.