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  How Asbestos Changes Lives Forever

  If there’s one word that can strike fear into the hearts of many Australians, it’s asbestos. Seemingly innocuous when first mined in…

  Lorraine Kember

  09/04/2019
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  Meet the Group with Highest Mesothelioma Mortality Rate in the World

  The Karijini National Park in Western Australia is a natural wonder. Sprawled over 193,000 square miles of the Hamersley Range deep in the…

  Lorraine Kember

  03/19/2019
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  Australia’s Asbestos Abatement Dilemma

  How to deal with the problem of asbestos in Australia is something authorities have grappled with for decades. Across the country, thousands of homes…

  Lorraine Kember

  10/25/2018
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  Asbestos in Australian Homes, Drinking Water a Concern

  One could describe asbestos as an unrelenting monster. About 125 million people in the world are exposed to asbestos at the workplace…

  Lorraine Kember

  09/06/2018
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  Tourists in Australia Flirt with Death in Asbestos Ghost Town

  How many people would willingly risk their life just for fun? The answer may surprise you. In Western Australia alone, hundreds — perhaps…

  Lorraine Kember

  08/06/2018
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  Unseen Asbestos Poses Risk to Unsuspecting Homeowners

  Travel through any neighborhood in Australia and you are almost certain to come across any number of homes constructed from fibro asbestos sheeting —…

  Lorraine Kember

  06/25/2018
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  How Asbestos Changed My Life

  Asbestos is the stuff of nightmares, and I should know. It killed my husband, Brian. Diagnosed with mesothelioma at age 52, he became one…

  Lorraine Kember

  05/18/2018
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  Australia’s Tradesmen at Risk of Asbestos Exposure

  Witnessing my husband Brian suffer and die from mesothelioma at the age of 54 was a cruel way to learn asbestos is not the…

  Lorraine Kember

  11/17/2017
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  Asbestos Industry Drives Epidemic in Developing Nations

  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…

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  01/31/2017
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  Asbestos: The Dirty Word in Australia

  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…

  Lorraine Kember

  09/02/2016