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Another building-site death adds to demands for industrial manslaughter laws

  • Written by: Bobbie Oliver, Honorary Research Fellow, Humanities, University of Western Australia
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The death of 23-year-old apprentice Jonnie Hartshorn on a Perth university building site is the 23rd workplace fatality among construction workers in Australia in 2020.

Hartshorn was killed on October 13 after falling 20 metres when the glass canopy of the building he was working on at Curtin University collapsed. Two co-workers were...

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