Mining cities concerned census fails to count FIFO 'ghost population'

Mining cities across Australia are raising concerns that the national census is failing to count a significant portion of the workforce. Per ABC News, the so-called 'fly-in fly-out' workers—employees who travel to remote sites for work then return home—are being missed in the headcount, creating what these communities call a 'ghost population.' They worry this undercount obscures the real pressure the growing workforce places on their communities.

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