Legal fight brewing as park asbestos scandal spreads

Australian Community Media

A landscaping supply company intends to fight an 'unreasonable' prevention notice as more asbestos-contaminated mulch is detected across Sydney. Video via AAP.

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00:00 What we're hearing every day is this drip-feeding of bad news.

00:05 It might be a hospital, it might be a school, it might be a playground.

00:08 This is deeply upsetting for the community.

00:11 The transparency that the Coalition is calling for is for the community, for the Men's Government,

00:16 to tell the community just how big this issue is, what's next, and what we can expect.

00:21 At the moment, we don't have those answers.

00:23 The extra resources that have been handed to the EPR are welcome.

00:26 They're welcomed by the Coalition. I'm sure they're welcomed by the community.

00:29 So they are working very hard. They're following the great prompts.

00:32 But the community is rightly saying, "Well, how did we get to this position in the first place?

00:37 What is the root cause of this?"

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