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Australia news live: Melbourne Metro Tunnel to open early; more magic sand products recalled over asbestos contamination
15 Nov 2025 22:07 GMT
… because the sand may include asbestos, which is a prohibited … notice stated.
Importantly, respirable asbestos has not been detected in … The release of respirable asbestos fibres is unlikely to occur … on beef and other agricultural exports to the US, claiming …
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Was the Snow in 'The Wizard of Oz' Asbestos?
15 Nov 2025 19:10 GMT
… more immediate problems: the original Tin Man, Buddy Ebsen, had … availability and viability of asbestos, and it already being … using crushed gypsum, a mineral used in plaster of Paris … reported numerous times, points to asbestos. However, this reporting likely …
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Asbestos has been found in this popular children’s toy prompting school closures
14 Nov 2025 21:52 GMT
… rocks, then potentially asbestos – which is a naturally occurring mineral – could have … been in the source product.
Asbestos is … seen in the construction and mining industries.
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Dozens of Australian and NZ schools shut over asbestos risk in children's sand
14 Nov 2025 12:23 GMT
… licensed professionals addressed possible asbestos contamination, public broadcast RNZ … ACCC said tremolite asbestos, a naturally occurring asbestos, had been detected … cancer.
Importing or exporting asbestos or goods containing asbestos is prohibited under …
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Trump safety rule rollbacks loom for miners, others after recent mine deaths
14 Nov 2025 11:29 GMT
… including for hazards such as asbestos, carcinogens, coke oven emissions … MSHA has assigned Alpha Metallurgical Resources-controlled Nicholas-Contura … ones and the entire mining family,” Sen. Jim Justice … to coal miners Thursday.
“Our brave coal miners make an …
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Brisbane school shuts after asbestos-laced play sand found
14 Nov 2025 03:46 GMT
… Consumer Commission detected tremolite asbestos, a naturally occurring asbestos, in some samples … reopen affected campuses on Sunday.
Asbestos and Dust Diseases Research Institute … was mined.
“When you’re mining mineral sands, which coloured sands usually …
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Asbestos has been found in children’s coloured sand. What’s the risk to kids?
14 Nov 2025 04:39 GMT
… rocks, then potentially asbestos – which is a naturally occurring mineral – could have … been in the source product.
Asbestos is … seen in the construction and mining industries.
We don’t have …
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Brisbane news live: Asbestos-laced coloured sand used in Brisbane school; Gold Coast teen accused of terrorism offences; Queensland resident with measles attended Oasis concert
14 Nov 2025 01:33 GMT
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is caught in a “terrible fishbowl” and allowing the party to be dictated to by right-wing echo chambers.
“You know the Liberal party room, that they’ve got the memory of goldfish and …
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What to do if you have the coloured sand product recalled for asbestos in your home
13 Nov 2025 23:26 GMT
… samples.
How dangerous is tremolite asbestos?
Asbestos is a prohibited substance in … it is a highly carcinogenic mineral.
Inhalation of its fibres is … partially closed due to potential asbestos contamination.
In Brisbane, parents have …
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Top lawyer returns to unfinished business in Wittenoom asbestos saga
13 Nov 2025 01:19 GMT
… ABC News: Patrick Rocca)
Blue asbestos mined between the late 1930s … thousands of people to dangerous asbestos fibres.
Those fibres can … conditions and dangerous levels of asbestos dust.
"It was … tonnes of mining waste laced with blue asbestos fibres is …