David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for Minister Watt, representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. The federal government and Safe Work have been on notice about the deadly health impacts posed by manufactured stone since at least 2019, when the matter was canvassed extensively in a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry and by the press. We know too many workers are dying slow, painful deaths from silicosis. Recognising that it took us too long to act on James Hardie, why does Safe Work still say that high-silica manufactured stone can be used safely and still refuse to support a ban on this deadly product?