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"Loose-fill insulation was used by Mr Fluffy in residential homes, we have no evidence to date that it was used in commercial buildings." Mr McCabe said he was organising an urgent assessment of ...
The study identified 17,248 people who had lived in around 1,000 houses with loose-fill asbestos insulation over 30 years. In total, 285 current and former residents of the ACT were diagnosed with ...
A landmark study from The Australian National University (ANU) into the health impacts of living in a house with loose-fill asbestos insulation has been published in the international journal The ...
A Loose Fill Asbestos Insulation Taskforce was also established to look at the best way of demolishing or buying back the homes. It is expected to report its findings in May 2015.
Asbestos Thu 11 Sep 2014 The Heads of Asbestos Coordination Working Group hasn't received reports of loose fill asbestos insulation being used in the north west. (file photograph) (ABC News) ...
As of May 2021, there have been 1027 properties affected by Mr Fluffy asbestos, of which 992 were demolished via the Loose Fill Asbestos Insulation Eradication Scheme, 29 were private and assisted ...
The discovery was enough for the NSW Fair Trading’s Loose-fill Asbestos Insulation Taskforce — which was formed in 2015 — to call time on the Turnbulls’ unit block, where one resident is ...
THE ACT government's asbestos response taskforce has published a full list of the 1022 houses that had the loose fill asbestos insulation pumped into their roof spaces between 1968 and 1979, and ...