$300 a week for worker accommodation

By Nasik Swami The Tatiara District Council needs to make money from workers who will occupy the newly completed workers accommodation at the Bordertown Caravan Park, says an elected counsellor. During a council meeting, Cr Miles Hannemann argued that the $300 per week fee for the workers’ accommodation was too little for a council that was financially struggling. In a report that factored in the current ‘market context’ for providing medium-term worker’s accommodation, the council administration proposed a fee schedule of $300 to be set for the furnished worker’s accommodation. The council was divided on the proposal, with some councillors saying the fee was fair and would attract workers to come to Bordertown, stay there, and spend money. “Council does not have many streams of income, and we have got these units at $300 per two people; that’s $35 a night per person,” Cr Hannemann said. He said workers paid […]

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