James Hardie Industries SE is filing suit against the Queensland
Government, charging the state for not protecting a subcontracted
carpenter from Hardie asbestos products in the 1950s and 1960s,
The Australian reports.
However, the Queensland Government counters that the then-
Queensland…
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