Mr Fluffy list will spark grief but Canberrans need to know of asbestos exposure

By The Canberra Times
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:53pm, first published July 1 2015 - 12:50am

More than a quarter of a century ago, this newspaper celebrated prematurely what appeared to be a resolution to the Mr Fluffy crisis. "For many Canberra families, the asbestos nightmare is fading," read The Canberra Times editorial of October 12, 1988. The Commonwealth had just announced it would help pay to remove the deadly, loose fibres used to insulate more than 1000 houses across the ACT. It was a costly but necessary act to eliminate what the government had been advised was "a public health asbestos problem far greater than any documented elsewhere in the world".

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