Gold has long dominated the Western Australian city of Kalgoorlie, born in a late 19th Century prospecting rush and home to one of the world’s largest-open pit mines, nestled right next to residential ...
Mick Shorter first came to Australia's gold mining capital of Kalgoorlie-Boulder as a teenager looking for a job. The week before his 18th birthday, he started labouring as a driller's offsider.