Signing off on the $22 million settlement,a judge warned time is rapidly running out for communities affected by toxic chemicals to take action over their health effects.
The class action has been settled over firefighting foam that contaminated a NSW South Coast river,devastating the community,with lawyers hailing it a “bittersweet victory”.
The two-year investigation uncovers why the cemetery at Wreck Bay,an Indigenous village in the tourist mecca of Jervis Bay,was “filled with young people”.
Part two of the Poisoned Paradise investigation into the contamination of water supplies around Wreck Bay from a Defence base reveals the shocking impact on local culture.
A two-year investigation has revealed devastating sickness and death in an Indigenous community located next to a defence base that used toxic firefighting foam.