Older Miners

Community workers in a remote New South Wales town are calling on the state government to step up efforts to help its ageing migrant population.The opal mining town of Lightning Ridge is said to be home to around 50 different nationalities.

Call for more support for ageing migrant miners in remote NSW Source: SBS

Many of those who arrived to find fortune in the 1960s and '70s still live in camps along its mining fields.