Rio relocates 700 miners to WA

Mining major Rio Tinto has relocated more than 700 of its staff with specialist skills to Perth from interstate as the Western Australian government put in place a hard border.

Premier Mark McGowan last week announced that while interstate fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers would be allowed into the state, they would be subjected to a strict 14-day self-isolation measure before being allowed onto Western Australian mine sites.