in wittenoom, the asbestos wasn't confined to the mine. on the roads. it was literally everywhere. and if you went out to play, as all small children do, you were playing in asbestos. one of the flying doctors flew into town and said, as soon as he got there he said, we had to close this, this has to stop. the mine was very profitable, so it was decided that wasn't the case. it was 1966 before they actually closed the mine. but people had started to die. we left when my dad got sick. we now know in actual fact he had asbestosis at that time. it's almost like having an asthma attack where you can't breathe and you're fighting to catch your breath. my mum and my brother died from mesothelioma. it is an extremely harrowing disease to see someone dying from mesothelioma. there's just hundreds of people from wittenoom that i know of, who have gone with mesothelioma or asbestosis. none of my family in that photo is alive, they're all gone, every one of them. there is no compensation for taking away your parents or your family. there is no justic