Since April, the Federal Government has been promising to set up a national taskforce to examine an illness that could be Australia's biggest occupational lung disease crisis since the James Hardies asbestos saga.
Hundreds of tradies who work with manufactured stone benchtops have been diagnosed with silicosis, an aggressive and incurable form of lung disease; and one in five people who have worked in cutting the material are likely to contract it. Read more: abc.net.au