'I'm so angry, I'm wild': the never-ending wait to clean up asbestos town Wittenoom

The WA government has announced former asbestos mining town of Wittenoom officially closed. But will it get cleaned up? For one man, time is running outGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingDeep in the heart of Western Australia's outback, Maitland Parker is fighting the biggest battle of his life, and it is not because he is dying of cancer.The Banjima elder's mob have lived around the area now known as Wittenoom for tens of thousands of years, but he can no longer go there. The eerily striking Pilbara town - at the foot of a deep gorge, 15 hours' drive north-east of Perth - is blanketed in the deadliest type of asbestos, crocidolite. This has earned it the unwanted accolade of being the "largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere". Continue reading...