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Workers and residents exposed to asbestos in Australia
By James Cogan
5 June 2013
Another scandalous example of government and corporate contempt for working class lives and health has come to light. On at least 20 occasions this year, workers employed in the roll-out of optic fibre cabling for the National Broadband Network (NBN) have “mishandled” material containing asbestos. In one documented incident, in Sydney’s western suburb of Penrith, asbestos was scattered in a residential area, exposing the workers and other people to the potentially cancer-causing consequences of inhaling it.