‘Huge victory’: three children win David and Goliath case over asbestos death

Three Aboriginal children whose father died from mesothelioma in the NSW Central West have won a battle for compensation after a judge threw out the state government’s legal defence and rebuked its handling of the landmark case.

With their mother no longer a part of their lives, Aaliyah, 16, Daniel, 9, and Thomas, 7, were left to the care of relatives following the death of their father Daniel Ingram six years ago.

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