Hamish’s bosses preached safety. Then he was diagnosed with a deadly disease

For Hamish Studholme, a tunneller across some of Sydney’s biggest transport infrastructure projects for about 20 years, an uncomfortable truth became impossible to ignore. Even as contracting companies slowly introduced measures to mitigate the threat of silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling tiny p…

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