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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by sien on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:07AM (#6338774)
Asbestos problems were mentioned in 2011 in the Senate:

http://safedesign.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/nbn-asbestos-rais...

Beyond that anyone who had looked at plans from the 1940s to 1970s would have known it was there:

http://safedesign.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/nbn-asbestos-know...

Either the NBN people were completely incompetent, which is highly unlikely, or the Asbestos problem was raised much earlier internally, probably as soon as people became serious about the project.

Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by cam_l on Friday September 06, 2013 @01:19AM (#6338817)