Banjima traditional owners say the thousands of hectares left poisoned by decades of asbestos mining has left them with one ...

Picture this: a place so dangerous that the government literally erased it from existence. In June 2007, Wittenoom was officially degazetted and removed, its name scraped off road signs as if ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. The companies that created the most contaminated site in the southern hemisphere should stump up cash to help clean it up, West ...

The last man in a forsaken Outback ghost town contaminated with deadly amounts of asbestos refuses to leave and says he misses nothing about civilisation. Wittenoom was once a thriving town in the ...

The legacy of a 1960s industrial asbestos mine site which devastated the lives of Aboriginal people and workers, many which fell victim to the deadly diseases mesathelioma and asbestosis, continues to ...