To date, over 50,000 Australians have died due to the use of asbestos. Several people every day die from mesothelioma or other asbestos-related diseases. Unfortunately, there is no cure for mesothelioma. However there is some treatment of mesothelioma in Australia.

Larry Graham, columnist, has criticised the various myths regarding asbestos and mesothelioma. The defence that the various governments and authorities use with mesothelioma cases is that they were unaware of the dangers of asbestos until very recently. It is because of this ignorance that they utilized asbestos in most of the buildings constructed before the 1970s. Graham criticises this defence, and states that the government was aware of the detrimental ramifications of asbestos for many years before this.

Graham criticises the myth that asbestos only affects people of the older generation who worked in mines and factories. The myths state that when these mines and factories closed down, the number of deaths regarding asbestos decreased dramatically. However, it must be acknowledged that asbestos was used in a myriad of buildings, including schools and homes in Australia. Further, asbestos particles are easily transmitted, and can be carried from place to place. Therefore, miners would have returned home and could have possibly brought back some asbestos particles, thereby placing their own family at risk.

Once asbestos fibres are inhaled, they can lead to mesothelioma, lung cancer or other asbestos related diseases. In Australia mesothelioma compensation (or asbestos compensation in Australia, or asbestosis compensation in Australia) is available to those who unfortunately do contract mesothelioma from asbestos exposure.

It is feared that several students and staff of a metropolitan school in Adelaide have been exposed to asbestos. In 2009, the school, which remains unnamed, underwent reconstruction. The installation of interactive white boards may have possibly exposed forty seven students and four staff members to dangerous asbestos fibres.

Jennifer Rankine, South Australian Education minister, has stated that reconstruction of the school took place in two classrooms that contained low-grade types of asbestos. Although these events took place in 2009, the risk associated with the reconstruct was brought to the attention of the principal recently.

Once the school was made aware of the issue, they identified the students present at the time of the reconstruction by referring to the attendance list. The school’s governing council has stated that they will be informing these students today.

David Smith of the Australian Education Union fears that there may be more students who were affected by the asbestos. Asbestos is a very fine particle that can be carried from one classroom to the next by sticking onto the students’ clothing.

Once asbestos fibres are inhaled, they can lead to mesothelioma, lung cancer or other asbestos related diseases. In South Australia, mesothelioma compensation claims have been brought. Further, South Australia has special legislation to assist those suffering asbestosis in South Australia and mesothelioma in South Australia to bring such claims.

Asbestos claims in South Australia, including mesothelioma claims in South Australia, and also asbestosis claims in South Australia, benefit from such legislation.

Ian Randle, a Queensland man, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in March. Instead of being filled with anger, Mr Randle has spoken out about his experience in an effort to warn others of the dangers associated with asbestos.

While there is mesothelioma treatment in Australia that cures this condition, sometimes those suffering mesothelioma in Australia are offered treatment.

Mesothelioma is caused by exposure to asbestos; this disease can remain undeveloped with no evidence or activity of it for decades. Ian Randle was exposed to asbestos back in 1979 when cutting asbestos sheets with a saw to install them at a property of duplexes. As a well known handyman, he regularly worked with sheets of asbestos as it was a commonly used product in Australia.

Like so many others workers in the construction and building industries in Australia, he had no idea he was putting himself in danger by working with asbestos. He only worked with the asbestos for minutes at a time, but there is no safe level of exposure. Minimal exposure can result in people contracting asbestos related diseases including mesothelioma.

Mr Randle warns that the dangers of asbestos are still out there. He warns people undertaking renovations on old houses to be careful and take precautions and to call in experts when dealing with asbestos because it’s not worth the risk .The big message that is trying to be communicate is that asbestos is a silent killer.

Asbestos claims many lives each year especially within Australia as we have one of the highest rates of asbestos related diseases in the world. Many asbestos compensation claims in Australia have been brought for those people suffering mesothelioma in Australia. Such claims have been taken against many different companies, including mesothelioma claims against James Hardie.

Companies involved with Tasmania’s National Broadband Network (NBN) have been asked to stop working as asbestos concerns have been raised regarding Telstra’s pits.

Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) representative David Mier has suggested that around eighty five percent of the people employed to work in the pits have not received adequate asbestos safety training.

Mier has urged the contractors to stop working on the pits until they have received the required training. This is to ensure the safety of not only the workers, but the general public as well. Mier has stated that “Kids wagging school or little kids just playing, they just jump in [the pits] thinking it’s a sandpit.”

Comcare, the workplace safety “watchdog”, has confirmed it is currently investigating asbestos-related issues for the Telstra pits. Comcare is collaborating with NBN and Telstra to ameliorate the safety of workers and to increase asbestos awareness issues.

Any exposure to asbestos can result in the development of asbestos related conditions. There have been cases of where persons who cut telephone asbestos conduits going to develop mesothelioma. Mesothelioma in Australia is a real threat and to decrease the chance of someone developing mesothelioma in Australia, precautions should be taken to ensure exposure is prevented, or at the very least, minimized.