WITTENOOM, Australia (Reuters) - Of the 20,000 people who once lived in this outback mining town in western Australia, at least 1,000 are dead of asbestos-related diseases. Just about everyone else ...
Children exposed to asbestos between 1943 and 1966 in Wittenoom, Western Australia, are now dying of asbestos-related cancers at a rate well above the average population. The University of Western ...
OVER the years, Selwyn Robinson's happy memories of his young family and a new life in Wittenoom became tinged by the mining town's blue dust. What should be happy memories of his young family ...