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Victim support group pushing mine dust fund

PRESSURE is growing on BHP and other major coal mining companies to establish a victims’ support fund to help people with mine dust diseases, such as black lung, and their families cope.

 Protestors outside the BHP annual general meeting in Melbourne.

Protestors outside the BHP annual general meeting in Melbourne.

The Mine Dust Disease Victims Support Group is proposing a 1c per tonne levy on coal produced to go into the fund.   Mine dust disease victims travelled from Central Queensland in an effort to get...

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