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Lesley Yeomans: Australia correspondent on the recall of coloured play-sand products · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: To Australia. We go Leslie Yeomen's good morning, Good morning Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: So just like us, you've got schools closed because of
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  Speaker 1: asbestos and sand.
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  Speaker 2: We have this in the ACT around Canberra. We've got
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  Speaker 2: more than seventy schools that have been closed because of
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  Speaker 2: this catin sand, which is used in sort of arts
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  Speaker 2: and crafts and play and apparently also it's been sold
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of the large retailers like Target and Kmart.
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  Speaker 2: They've done this big recall of the sand and these
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  Speaker 2: seventy two schools across the ACT have been closed down
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  Speaker 2: while further testing is being done. There's also it's also
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  Speaker 2: been found in the Northern Territory and South Australia as well.
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  Speaker 2: In South Australia, more than one hundred sites have been
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  Speaker 2: identified as using the sand. Northern Territory haven't closed any
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  Speaker 2: schools as yet, but they have closed some classes so
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  Speaker 2: that further testing can be done on this sand. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a this as beestos that's been found in it.
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  Speaker 2: It's called a tremolite asbestos and apparently it's found as
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  Speaker 2: a natural sort of asbestos, but we're not really sure
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  Speaker 2: exactly how bad it can be. They're still doing tests
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, China. Meanwhile, you've got a koala
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  Speaker 1: colony in outback New South Wales which is under threat.
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  Speaker 2: It is they've been doing some koala testing for koala
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  Speaker 2: numbers in central western New South Wales in the outback,
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  Speaker 2: and the researchers have found this really large colony of koalas.
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  Speaker 2: The only trouble is it's in an area where there
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  Speaker 2: is a coal mine that wants to expand, and the
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  Speaker 2: coal mine is wanting to move into an area about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and or just over one hundred hectares of
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  Speaker 2: where the koalas are now. The operators of the coal
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  Speaker 2: mine say that they're aware of it and they're more
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  Speaker 2: than happy to relocate koalas if they come into the
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  Speaker 2: area that the coal mine wants to go to. But
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  Speaker 2: the environmental researchers and the wildlife researchers are saying it
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  Speaker 2: that's maybe not the best thing, because this new colony
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  Speaker 2: has really surprised them because they haven't sort of done
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  Speaker 2: a lot of workout in central New South Wales as
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  Speaker 2: far as koala numbers have gone, and they've been really
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  Speaker 2: pleasantly surprised that they've found this huge colony of Koala's
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, has anyone asked the Koala how they feel about
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  Speaker 1: being moved? There? We go and I thank you Leslie
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  Speaker 1: Yeomens all the very best. For more from earlier edition
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