Locations
Western AustraliaAustralia was one of the largest users of asbestos and its population now suffers from the scourge of asbestos disease.
The impact has been greatest in Western Australia, where asbestos cement products were used extensively in the state’s housing industry and in the construction of its vast infrastructure in the postwar boom years.
Western Australia, about a third of the Australian continent,where asbestos was once known as ‘the magic mineral’