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.

Victim support group pushing mine dust fund

Protestors outside the BHP annual general meeting in Melbourne.

15 March 2019
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The Mine Dust Disease Victims Support Group is proposing a 1c per tonne levy on coal produced to go into the fund.

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