An Aboriginal community in New South Wales has drawn attention for being riddled with asbestos to what experts call a “criminal extent”.
Barry Robson, president of the Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia recently visited the Wallaga Lake, and immediately called on the government to act.
“This is not right. This is criminal. Something should be done. Some Government body should get in there and clean this place up,” he told SBS’ Living Black program.
Robson added that he had never come across a community so badly affected by the deadly building material, which has been present around Wallaga Lake Village for at least a decade.
Asbestos dust is known to cause highly fatal diseases like mesothelioma and asbestosis.
“The community should not have an ongoing exposure to asbestos that is just literally lying around on their front lawns, in their backyards, that where even a dog digging a hole for a bone has dug up asbestos pieces,” Robson told Living Black.
Wallaga Lake Village is home to about 200 Aboriginal Yuin people.
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