Banjima Traditional Owners launch $1.5 billion legal action against WA government for clean up of Wittenoom's toxic legacy

Note: This report includes the name of person who has died.The Traditional Owners of Country including Wittenoom have launched a $1.5 billion legal claim against the Western Australian government.For ...

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Wittenoom doesn’t exist anymore.
Not because it was abandoned—but because it was too dangerous to leave standing.
And its legacy is still killing people.
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Wittenoom: Australia’s Blue Asbestos Ghost Town Disaster

Once a thriving mining town, Wittenoom became the largest asbestos-contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere. This is the full story of its rise, fall, and deadly legacy.

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Renowned lawyer returns to Wittenoom asbestos case that changed his life

Forty years ago the Wittenoom asbestos disaster changed Peter Gordon's life. Now he has come back to finish what he started.

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Matt Peacock, former ABC journalist renowned for investigating asbestos issues, has died aged 72

Matt Peacock worked for a wide range of programs, as well as the broadcaster's foreign correspondent in London, Washington and New York.

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Out of sight: Australia's most toxic site untouched for 60 years

Asbestos contamination from Wittenoom has impacted Rio Tinto's construction of its railway line to its $2.6 billion iron ore project in the Pilbara. The Banjima Traditional Owners say the waste should have been cleaned up years ago.

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Wittenoom, a deadly erased asbestos town.

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