Future of Gove

It will be interesting to see what the future holds as the mining company pulls out of processing here and exports the raw materials. The impact in the population of the town will be to approx halve the size as likely 2000+ people may leave.

With a reduction in population the practical impact can be on services, requirements for schools and so forth, as well a change in the demographics and possibly in the culture of the local population.

It won't directly affect MAF as we don't serve or fly mining people but will perhaps have more subtle effects on the families living here depending on the exit of mining related families and hence population and maybe corresponding public service provision.