Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Australia has the highest per capita rate of asbestos disease in the world. Forty thousand Australians are expected to die from asbestos. There are reports that the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency is to be axed. Does the Prime Minister agree with Senator Cormann that this agency is 'window dressing' and that it is misused for PR purposes? And why does this Prime Minister go out of his way to make life hard for asbestos victims?

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