22 November 2010: The President of the P and C at Pleasant Heights Public School in Wollongong has expressed concerns he wasn’t made aware of a WorkCover document detailing asbestos contamination.

23 November 2010: The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) says the Brisbane City Council’s (BCC) regulations on the disposal of asbestos are causing a health risk.

24 November 2010: Angry teachers potentially exposed to asbestos have voted to strike for 24 hours if the Bligh Government does not commit to protect them from future exposure.

25 November 2010: Students and teachers throughout Victoria have come into contact with asbestos and schools have been cleared due to contamination fears.

26 November 2010: Asbestos dumped on a beach is being removed in a major clean-up operation.

29 November 2011: State schools have recorded a massive spike in asbestos incidents as the Education Department faces more compensation claims from staff who fear they have been exposed.

30 November 2010: Matt Peacock has been covering the asbestos story for decades and says he just gets cranky when people lie about it. (audio)

10 December 2010: One of the State Government’s most controversial school initiatives has been thrown into chaos, with hundreds of students set to start classes on a temporary site next year because of an asbestos bungle.

17 December 2010: A report into QBuild’s handling of asbestos at a north Queensland school has found it failed to follow the appropriate decontamination process.

18 December 2010: A former pre-school teacher who has just found out she has terminal mesothelioma wants to warn ex-staff and children from a Brisbane pre-school that they also were exposed to deadly asbestos in 1983.