Electrical problems and asbestos are causing a health hazard at The Lodge in Canberra, Australia, the Prime Minister’s official residence, the Herald Sun reports.
Such issues need urgent attention. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and partner, Tim Mathieson, will be forced from…
Superintendent Darryl Tuck of the New South Wales Police Force says tenders have been called and contractors are being appointed to inspect and fix more than 300 police houses and stations in NSW’s western region that were contaminated by asbestos,…
Australian Capital Territory officials are still waiting to meet the Federal Government to discuss the territory’s asbestos contamination crisis, The Canberra Times reports.
Senior bureaucrats from the Chief Minister’s Department were due to meet with their counterparts from the Department of…
Work has stopped on the redevelopment of the Lyneham Sports Precinct in Lyneham, Canberra, Australia, after a recent find of a massive cache of illegally dumped asbestos on the site, The Canberra Times reports.
The project has been halted after an…
The New South Wales Police Association is calling for more health checks, after revelations an officer from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, has asbestos-related disease, ABC News reports.
Matt Thompson, the union’s western region organizer says within the Barrier command…
The Bega Valley Shire Council in Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia, has stopped the sale of reprocessed garden mulch, after the discovery of potentially contaminated material, ABC News reports.
The alarm was raised after a resident found fiber cement within mulch…
WorkSafe ACT says the risk of exposure to asbestos at Boral Plasterboard Trade Centre in Canberra, Australia, is negligible, ABC News reports.
Air sampling tests have not found any asbestos in the air, but dust and sample monitoring has detected the…
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), on Sept. 7, 2011, said that work has been halted on the coal loader expansion site after asbestos was found in recycled building material throughout a construction site at Newcastle in the Hunter region…
The Sunshine Coast Regional Council is to spend nearly AU$2.5 million and 10 years unearthing and destroying asbestos housed in its buildings, the Sunshine Coast Daily reports.
The Council has budgeted AU$200,000 annually from late 2013 until 2021 to dismantling the…
Unions Tasmania is celebrating the first passage of laws to compensate workers who contracted asbestos-related diseases, ABC News reports.
Legislation to set up the compensation scheme passed the Lower House last July 7, 2011. The scheme will be funded by a…