QUICK LINKS
A comprehensive website on asbestos.
www.asbestosinfo.com.au
24 hour emergency asbestos removal information hotline
John Carter - 0417 814 330
Awareness - Advocacy - News
This section is dedicated to news. News about all things related to asbestos, current headlining stories, awareness articles, news on advocacy, latest treatments and personal stories.
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Australian News
World News
OH&S News
Medical News
Clinical Trials
The Australian Lung Foundation’s Multi-centre Clinical Trials Networks (MCTN)
An initiative of The Australian Lung Foundation, the MCTN is a service that allows patients to view current clinical trials predominately in the area of Lung and Respiratory disease. Membership is FREE and patients can register their interest in participating. The Lung Foundation will keep members updated with information about clinical trials that may be of interest to them.
Victorian Cancer Trials Link
This useful page is run by the Cancer Council of Victoria and details current trials.
Social News
Personal Stories
Bernie Banton
Bernie Banton was the face of the fight for justice for asbestos disease sufferers and their families, throughout the 2000s. Diagnosed with asbestosis and asbestos related-pleural plaques in 1999 and then with mesothelioma in August 2007, Bernie passed away on November the 27th 2007.
Watch the the tribute video, 'Running up that hill'.
Stewart Beckworth: Sufferer of Mesothelioma, Campaigner and Victim to James Hardie Greed
Article that appeared in The Age on Stewart Beckworth.
A Survivor's Story
Late in 2008, we congratulated Anita Steiner on the birth of her baby girl. She has gone on to tell her wonderful story of survival and the birth of her daughter, on the Channel 7 nightly news.