<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span><br /><a href="https://aus.social/tags/altText4You" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>altText4You</span></a> in the Western Australian desert a group of men shrouded in blue grey dust are shovelling asbestos powder into drums. Onlookers stand around. Everyone is wearing shorts and white shirts. Caption: workers shovel raw blue asbestos tailings into drums at an asbestos shovelling competition at Wittenoom in the Pilbara W.A. 1962</p><p>A third of the workers who passed through Wittenoom ended up dying slowly and horribly from mesothelioma and lung cancer. If you are ever tempted to think that people are unfairly critical of Gina Rhinehart just remember where her money came from. It was her father Lang Hancock who became Australia's richest man off the back of that cursed place.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/UWFqFMnonjY" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/UWFqFMnonjY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
