James Hardie I told you so! And the polititians are in bed with them

Seems James Hardie has paid out some more huge bribes to polititians to protect them even further. It's sad that these executives killed hundreds of thousands of people and get off without any sort of prison term.

Killing people for profits is murder in my book and these people haven't had to face any prosecutions and the poor people left ill and dying are not protected at all by the governments of this country.

There can only be one reason they are not prosecuted and funds are not given immediately to the ill and injured that are still alive! Becuase the polititians take bribes of huge amounts.

Now polies aren't stupid, well they have people advising them anyway and the way these bribes would be given are hidden in ways such as making large party donations to the government in power!

Disgusting behaviour! Not only should the Executives of this organisation face prosecution for murder under criminal law, the shareholders should face huge penalities so that people start investing in companies that provide safe work environments instead of seeing huge profits obtained from killing people and getting away with it but the polititians need to also be prosecuted to for allowing this to happen and protecting the company that will kill up to 60,000 Australians.

Some blame also needs to placed on the Safety Institute of Australia for not requiring it's members to be qualified in the field, which is reflected in the safety practices of Australia's largest companies. If they had committment to get qualified then they might also have the committment to stand up for what is right.

But as is the case the SIA hasn't even the balls to remove all unqualified people from it's ranks and bring health and safety to the profession it truly deserves.


Hardie asbestos deadline extended again

November 01, 2006 09:20am
Article from: AAP

THE NSW Government has extended until November 14 the deadline for James Hardie to finalise the funding deal for compensation for victims of its asbestos products.

The previous deadline expired yesterday with the building products company still to reach an agreement with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) over the status of the compensation fund.

The deal was thrown into doubt after a tax office ruling in June this year that the fund, worth up to $4.5 billion over 40 years, could not be treated as a charity for tax purposes.

The deadline for finalising the fund has been repeatedly pushed back from its original date of July 31.

Asbestos Diseases Foundation president Barry Robson today branded the two-week extension as "another rabbit out of the hat" and said he had little hope the deal would be finalised in a fortnight.

"I'm never hopeful dealing with Hardie. We've been down this road so many times over the last three years, we just don't believe them in anything they say or do."