International Impact
Australia’s Asbestos Abatement Dilemma
- by Lorraine Kember
- International Impact
- Oct 25, 2018
How to deal with the problem of asbestos in Australia is something authorities have grappled with for decades. Across the country, thousands of homes built in asbestos’ heyday are still…
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Asbestos in Australian Homes, Drinking Water a Concern
- by Lorraine Kember
- International Impact
- Sep 6, 2018
One could describe asbestos as an unrelenting monster. About 125 million people in the world are exposed to asbestos at the workplace each year, according to the World…
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Tourists in Australia Flirt with Death in Asbestos Ghost Town
- by Lorraine Kember
- International Impact
- Aug 6, 2018
How many people would willingly risk their life just for fun? The answer may surprise you. In Western Australia alone, hundreds — perhaps thousands — of people from around…
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Unseen Asbestos Poses Risk to Unsuspecting Homeowners
- by Lorraine Kember
- International Impact
- Jun 25, 2018
Travel through any neighborhood in Australia and you are almost certain to come across any number of homes constructed from fibro asbestos sheeting — many in bad shape. These…
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How Asbestos Changed My Life
- by Lorraine Kember
- International Impact
- May 18, 2018
Asbestos is the stuff of nightmares, and I should know. It killed my husband, Brian. Diagnosed with mesothelioma at age 52, he became one of hundreds condemned to death because…
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Australia’s Tradesmen at Risk of Asbestos Exposure
- by Lorraine Kember
- International Impact
- Nov 17, 2017
Witnessing my husband Brian suffer and die from mesothelioma at the age of 54 was a cruel way to learn asbestos is not the harmless building product I once thought…
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Asbestos Industry Drives Epidemic in Developing Nations
- Guest Author
- International Impact
- Jan 31, 2017
Ashirwad Barnwal is a student at Iowa State University of Science and Technology. He is the first-place winner of the Spring 2016 Asbestos.com Essay Scholarship. Ashirwad describes how…
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Asbestos: The Dirty Word in Australia
- by Lorraine Kember
- International Impact
- Sep 2, 2016
Of all the words in the English language, “asbestos” is the only one that angers me or moves me to tears. It wasn’t always this way. I grew up in…
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Wittenoom: A Thorn in the Side of a Mesothelioma Widow
- by Lorraine Kember
- International Impact
- Apr 5, 2016
I was 14 when my school pal introduced me to her 18-year-old cousin, Brian Kember. It didn’t take long for me to realize he was the one I wanted to…
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How Politics May Help Find a Cure for Mesothelioma
- by Tim Povtak
- International Impact
- Dec 16, 2015
Francis Agnus Vito left Sicily for the U.S. when she was 25 years old. When she was 30, she gave birth to my grandmother, Janette Vito. Italian mothers and great-grandmothers…
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