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  2. List of Australian Government entities - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Government comprises 20 portfolio departments, each representing a seat in the federal cabinet and leading its respective portfolio area: [4] [2] Attorney-General's Department Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

  3. Mr Fluffy - Wikipedia

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    In response, a home demolition scheme was negotiated between the Government of the Australian Capital Territory and the Government of Australia in 2014. It involved a loan of about A$1 billion from the Australian Government to the ACT Government to fund the purchase of houses treated with loose-fill asbestos fibre insulation in the 1960s and ...

  4. Wittenoom, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    The peak population, as recorded by the Australian census conducted on 30 June 1961, was 881 (601 males and 280 females). [9] During the 1950s and early 1960s, Wittenoom was Australia's only supplier of blue asbestos. The mine was shut down in 1966 due to its unprofitability, and growing health concerns from asbestos mining in the area.

  5. Australian authorities say more Sydney schools tainted with ...

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    An asbestos contamination in Sydney widened on Sunday, with authorities saying the toxic material had been detected in more schools, as a weeks-long effort continued to remove it from mulch used ...

  6. Asbestos bankruptcy trusts - Wikipedia

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    Typically an asbestos plaintiff is exposed to a mixture of products during a thirty-year career in the building trades. It takes between twenty and fifty years from first exposure to the development of asbestos-caused cancer, so work histories, employment, military and social security records are used to help prove the plaintiff's exposure to various asbestos products throughout his or her career.

  7. Social Security: New Data Shows Program’s Major Trust Funds ...

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    Another option would be for Congress to raise the Social Security payroll tax rate from its current 12.4% to 15.6% following the trust fund depletion, and then gradually increase it to 16.7% by 2095.

  8. Asbestos and the law - Wikipedia

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    The Vision Statement on Environment and Human Health of the Government of India states "Alternatives to asbestos may be used to the extent possible and use of asbestos may be phased out." [33] In Case No.693/30/97-98, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has clearly directed to " Replace all asbestos sheets roofing with roofing made up of ...

  9. Social Security's surplus will last a little longer, new ...

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    The main Social Security trust fund will continue paying out full benefits through 2034, according to the annual report released Thursday from the trustees of the programs. That’s one year later ...