Woman earning two months’ wages in a fortnight on Australian mine says it’s no wonder the young are leaving

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00:00in the day with me as a machine operator working in the mines here in western australia

00:04our mornings start extremely early as we wake up at half three and breakfast is at four o'clock

00:07here is a quick sneak peek of what is on offer every morning this morning i opted for tea

00:12some fruit and a croissant we then get the bus over to camp it takes about 15 minutes and look

00:16at our sunrise that we have nearly every single morning how stunning is this we then have a

00:20pre-start which lasts maybe about half an hour and then it's time to get going so this morning

00:24i started off driving the water cart this is a new thing to me but i'm really really loving it

00:28and your job with this is just to get water on the ground and like dust control so you're in and

00:31out of the machine filling it up as much as you can i'm also getting some time on the water moxie

00:36which is a lot bigger and it's an articulated dump truck as you can see here i can't tell which one

00:40i like better i'm really loving just the opportunity to drive like multiple different things every day

00:44this is what it looks like when you first come to australia and you see these big dump trucks you

00:47think they're impossible to drive but they're really not i then had break time which is like a car bar

00:52and some fruit i think and into the roller this is basically what i was hired for and it's a nice

00:56sweet job but it can be a bit boring sometimes but anyways i'm not complaining so i did this for

01:01a while and then it was time to get in for lunch how shocking is my wrap i destroyed it in the

01:06toasty machine and after lunch i then spent another few hours in the roller and then we clock off then

01:11about five o'clock so this was us finished we then got the bus back to camp we are so ready to get out

01:17of here we are finishing our three weeks we then went straight away and had our dinner after work

01:21sometimes we changed up and we have dinner later on my dinner looks pretty purr it was time to go back to our

01:26rooms shower cello and do it all over again tomorrow