Perth had 34 scheduled arrivals today between 12-1, Sydney had 4 in the same time. The mining boom pretty much saved Australia financially from the worst of the GFC. With the falling $AUD and steady commodity prices and climbing gold, the miners are doing reasonably well for now and I think any attempt to shut it down would be met with great opposition from Canberra. Have herd some mines are considering increasing the work swings to 4 weeks on at a time instead of 1 or 2 to reduce cross contamination chances.