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Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA), also known as Union Aid Abroad, is a non-government organisation of the Australian union movement. [1] The non-government organisation was established in 1984 as the international aid agency of the Australian Council of Trade Unions . [ 2 ]
The crisis was triggered by the January 2024 discovery of asbestos in the Rozelle Parklands, a part of the then-recently opened Rozelle Interchange project in Sydney, Australia. [ 3 ] The asbestos was originally reported by a concerned parent, who spotted a chunk of bonded asbestos in a handful of mulch brought home by their child from a ...
The union that represents workers tasked with modifying electrical meter boxes at residences stated that workers should refuse to do this work until the boxes have been inspected for asbestos, [63] and the head of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has called on the government to protect its citizens by ridding the country of asbestos by 2030.
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 ...
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.
Australia has some of the largest mining operations in the southern hemisphere and is a major exporter of several resources that have significant environmental effects, most notably coal and uranium. Australia has the largest reserves of uranium in the world and there has been a number of enquiries on uranium mining.
The program aims to enhance the environmental health and living conditions of Indigenous Australians and support the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. Also known as Exercise Saunders, this initiative is named in honour of CAPT Reg Saunders MBE who was the first Indigenous Australian commissioned in the Australian Regular Army.
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 ...