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Class Action on behalf of the Banjima People – holding those responsible for the largest deadly contamination site in the southern hemisphere to account.
Gordon Legal acts for BNTAC, the Aboriginal Corporation which represents the Banjima people.
Banjima County has been poisoned by the infamous Wittenoom asbestos mines and the generations long failure to clean it up. For decades, asbestos waste was dumped on the side of the gorges in the Wittenoom area, leaving mountains of carcinogenic asbestos tailings exposed to the elements.
Consequently, the health of the Banjima people has been jeopardised for generations and lead to Indigenous people in Western Australia having the highest rate of mesothelioma (a disease with the lowest survival rate of any cancer) for any group anywhere in the world.
Gordon Legal has been instructed to hold those responsible to account.
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Poisoning Banjima Country – a Timeline
1930s
1950 – 1970
1985
1990
2006
2022
2025
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