22 October, 2011: THE story of asbestos in Australia unfolds in a sequence of sad, familiar images, starting with grainy film footage from the ’50s and ’60s of miners filling bags of blue asbestos while their children played in the beautiful, deadly shadow of CSR’s Wittenoom Gorge, in northwest West

28 March, 2012: Residents in Western Sydney are outraged over the plan to build a waste treatment plant on a site that was once used to manufacture asbestos

May 1, 2012: More than two dozen people set out to walk across the desert from Kalgoorlie to Perth this morning to highlight the urgent need for more research into the deadly asbestos cancer mesothelioma.

May 2, 2012: Concerns for the health of kindergarten children in Port Melbourne after contaminated soil and asbestos was found during demolition.

May 8, 2012: The Western Australian Government has noted an increase in the illegal dumping of hazardous materials in land around Bridgetown, Manjimup, Pemberton and Northcliffe.

May 20, 2012: “NSW legal logjam means unless victims lodge compensation in their dying days, their bereaved families are left with nothing.”

4 September, 2012: WA Institute of Medical Research has carried out a study on Wittenoom kids who spent their childhoods exposed to asbestos in the town has found girls up to the age of 15 are more likely to develop mesothelioma, ovarian and brain cancers and have had increased death rates, while

4 September, 2012: An ABC PM radio report on the newly created Office of Asbestos Safety

26 September, 2012: ABC PM report that a union boss is accusing the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of risking lives by advising home mechanics that they can remove car parts containing asbestos by themselves.

27 September, 2012: ABC PM report on the feasibility of charging importers of Great Wall and Chery vehicles with importing cars that contained asbestos