Finalist for Excellence in FIFO Workforce Experience at the 2026 Prospect Awards

Australia’s Mining Monthly has published a feature on The FIFO Family Project’s first six months. At the time, we had run 14 meet-ups and more than 550 families had registered with us. The piece also covered our webinars and our plans for 2025. Six months earlier, none of this existed. Seeing it in an industry…

The Coalface has covered the launch of What Every Kid Needs To Know About FIFO: A-Z Edition, our children’s book about fly-in fly-out (FIFO), family connection and STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) careers. Writer Jess covered the February launch and the book’s funding from the WA Department of Communities. For a lot of kids,…

Vicky sat down with The Gold Room for a long-form video interview, Family First: Fixing FIFO from the Inside Out. She talked about her own background, where industry support for fly-in fly-out (FIFO) families falls short and what a proper family support system could look like. Most conversations about FIFO stop at the problem. This…

Vicky was a guest on episode 54 of the Thriving Parent-ing podcast from Sleep Thrive Grow, FIFO Parenting is No Joke: Let’s Talk About It. She spoke with host Jen Cuttriss about the pressure fly-in fly-out (FIFO) life puts on parents and the practical supports that make a difference. Not every FIFO parent reads industry…

Vicky presented at the Australian Fatherhood Research Symposium 2026, held at Deakin Downtown in Melbourne and online. Her session, Bridging the Gap for FIFO Fathers: Reducing Isolation and Building Resilience in the Transition to Parenthood, shared early impact data from the FIFO New Parents Guide. Perinatal support often centres on mothers. Fly-in fly-out (FIFO) dads…

Vicky presented at the Maternal Child and Family Health Nurses Australia (MCaFHNA) Symposium on fly-in fly-out (FIFO) families and our work. Child health nurses work with families in the early weeks of parenthood. Knowing how FIFO life shapes those weeks changes the support they can offer. One attendee told us afterwards: “You genuinely changed my…