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Asbestos Awareness Week
Sydney :: Australia | 4 days ago
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According to the World Health Organization, Australia and UK have the highest rate of asbestos-related cancer deaths in the world...Recently, the Prime Minister announced a loan with the NSW Government of up to $320 million to ensure that compensation...
Tags: Australia, Asbestos Disease Research Institute, Bernie Banton Centre, Sydney, Health Medical Pharma, Asbestos, Occupational diseases, Bernie Banton, Asbestos and the law, James Hardie, Mesothelioma, Australian Blue Asbestos
Asbestos screenings urge for workers
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility THE NSW Government is urging people who may have been exposed to asbestos to undergo medical screening. Attorney-General John Hatzistergos yesterday encouraged workers to get tested for asbestos-related illnesses, which are often fatal, during Asbestos...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Occupational safety and health, Mesothelioma, James Hardie, Pneumoconiosis, Lung cancer, Asbestos, Occupational diseases, Pulmonology, Disaster Accident, Health Medical Pharma, Labor
How mo will they go for Thodey?
Vientiane :: Laos | 7 days ago
Credibility Waving, not drowning...Matthew Grounds will take part in Surfing Suits. Illustration : Simon Letch. Telstra's chief executive, David Thodey, does not appear to have the same crowd-pulling skills as his Government-bashing predecessor Sol Trujillo .
Tags: chief executive, Nick Greiner, CNMC, Cameron Clyne, Louis Gries, NAB, Brian Johnson, Laos, Vientiane, James Hardie, Asbestos, Dividend, BT Group, Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Republic Advisory Committee
Stocks to watch
Manila :: Philippines | 7 days ago
Credibility Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange at noon: ANZ - ANZ BANKING GROUP LTD - up 21 cents, or one per cent, at $21.96 ANZ Banking Group has completed its acquisition of the Royal Bank of Scotland's Philippines unit and will complete its acquisition...
Tags: Philippines, Manila, Cent, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, James Hardie, Hardie, Business Finance, Coins of Canada, Australian Securities Exchange, Penny, United States dollar, 5 cent, Coins of the United States, Abraham Lincoln
Asbestos payout to resume next year
Melbourne :: Australia | 7 days ago
Credibility US was nearing its bottom and it anticipated rising profits this year...Operating profit is forecast to be close to the top end of analysts' estimates of $US115 million. Hardie pays compensation from free cash flow, under a deal with unions and the NSW...
Tags: James Hardie, cash flow, prior corresponding, Australia, Melbourne, Business Finance, Hardie, Asbestos, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Actuary, Recessions, Profit, Llewellyn Edwards, Asbestos and the law, Australian Blue Asbestos, Free cash flow
One.Tel liquidator 'getting on with job'
Canberra :: Australia | 11 days ago
Credibility Paul Weston, of Pitcher Partners, is investigating the cancellation of a $132 million rights issue shortly before the telco's collapse in 2001. James Packer, who together with Lachlan Murdoch was a backer of One.Tel, on Thursday challenged Mr Weston to...
Tags: ASIC, corporate watchdog, Australia, Canberra, Jodee Rich, Writ, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Corporate scandals, One.Tel, James Packer, Law Crime, Application-specific integrated circuit, Steve Vizard, James Hardie, Year of birth missing, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, OneTel, ASIC v Rich, Entertainment Culture, Kerry Packer, Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Business Finance, News Corporation
James Hardie victims get $300m lifeline
Sydney :: Australia | 24 days ago
Credibility The Federal Government says the company's compensation fund would have run out of money in the next 12 months. It was set up in 2007 to compensate asbestos victims but James Hardie was permitted to start paying victims in installments if cash flows fell.
Hardie fund 'close to bankruptcy'
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Asbestos Diseases Foundation believes the fund is weeks away at most from declaring insolvency, allowing it to delay payments to dying victims. The foundation's president, Barry Robson, says he met with Kevin Rudd in Sydney in April and asked him...
Tags: James Hardie
Bloomberg: James Hardie Lodges Appeal Against ASIC Asbestos Disclosure Case Findings
Perth :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- James Hardie Industries NV said it has lodged an appeal against a ruling last month that found the company and former executives had breached Australian law regarding the adequacy of asbestos compensation funding. “Some of the...
Tags: James Hardie, Australia, Perth
Directors take judge to task
Contest :: France | 2 months ago
Credibility James Hardie board approved a misleading media release about asbestos compensation in 2001 will be fought again in the NSW Court of Appeal next year. Former directors will appeal Justice Ian Gzell's April ruling by attacking his conclusions about what...
Tags: James Hardie, France, Contest
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