TZIH: Wittenoom - Is This Australia's Worst Mining Disaster?
All Aussie Hour · Josephine Rozenberg-Clarke and Melissa Mason
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Show Notes
This week, Mel takes Josie through the Wittenoom disaster, where asbestos mining turned deadly for generations and left a town at critical contamination levels - and completely abandoned.
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Credits:
ABC Pilbara, Gian De Poloni, 2018
The West Australian, Tom Zaunmayr, 2018
ABC Pilbara, Karen Michelmore, 2019
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-20/final-wittenoom-residents-to-be-forced-out/10917928
ABC Pilbara, Ben Collins, 2015
ABC Radio National, Kirsti Melville, 2019
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/the-ghosts-of-wittenoom-part-2/10747390
Department of Commerce WA
https://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/worksafe/wittenoom-images
WA Today, AAP Reporters, 2012
The Doom Of Wittenoom, Andrew Fieldes, 2006
https://www.pbase.com/afildes/wittenoomdoom
The West Australian, Liam Croy, 2017
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/it-may-be-a-ghost-town-but-for-some-wittenoom-is-home-ng-b88341296z
9 Honey, Katherine Scott, 2019
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