Federal Labor vows Senate probe into Bellarine cancer cases

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Labor has vowed to set up a parliamentary inquiry into the high incidence of cancer on the Bellarine Peninsula, in the hotly contested seat of Corangamite alp

first reported the concerns in late December after families of young adults from the area who died of cancers including leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancer raised the alarm.

Concerns have been expressed about the use of organochlorine pesticides in the area until they were banned in the 1980s.Gordon Legal is investigating the cancer deaths of at least two former Bellarine Secondary College students with a view to a test case for a potential class action.

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Same author as previous articles on this. Except you know there is no higher incidence. When you finally asked the epidemiologists that’s what they said, and you even printed it. Cheap points in an election? auspol

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