Banjima people are calling on the WA Government to clean up Poison Country | The Point | NITV
The Banjima people refer to the Blue Asbestos affected area of Wittenoom Gorge as Poison Country.
👉🏾 Subscribe to NITV: bit.ly/3tZ0WYj
When mining finished 60 years ago, the companies abandoned their leases and the masses of toxic contamination - leaving Wittenoom Gorge too dangerous to enter.
As a kid, Maitland Parker played in Wittenoom Gorge with his cousins and brothers; Maitland was diagnosed with Mesothelioma in 2016. The Banjima people are concerned for the wellbeing of those surrounding the contaminated areas.
The Banjima people have been asking the government to clean up the area for more than 10 years.
The Point is NITV's flagship news and current affairs program.
NITV is Australia's Indigenous television channel, a part of the SBS network.
#ThePoint #NITV #WittenoomGorge
Пікірлер: 9
Maitland Parker just passed away in February of 2024. I hope that his people continue to fight for the cleanup of the Wittenoom area. It is important as the tailings and dust from Wittenoom will continue to spread out from the area via weather issues. The government can try to keep people and traffic out of the area. But the environment itself will continue to spread the tailings unless cleaned up.
There needs to be a clean-up. I hope we people can bring awareness to this and make it happen.
Why hasn’t this been cleaned up?
My father Dave Roberts was a deputy shire president for the shire of Ashburton and late premier Ernie Bridge declared the old mining town of Wittenoom gorge mines closed down from late 1980.s till now
I agree the Australian government should clean up and I used to go swimming at the local swimming hole and plus the telstra workers worked in houses with asbestos dust and the telstra line worked in blue asbestos pits telephone cables and my father was a deputy shire president of Ashburton and at the time w a premier Ernie bridge told the blue asbestos mining Co to clean up and former town residents who died from it
Wow !🥺
Not.cleaned.cause.James.Hardie..who.had.it.last.ran.off.to.USA..