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Fraser interviewed Gideon and Gordon King a number of times before they died. He was keen to get the history of the company right, especially the story of how it got mixed up with V&L and Disaster Blue. It was the key to much of the litigation he handled in the Asbestos Diseases Tribunal. One day, he hoped to sue V&L and the state and commonwealth governments and expose all the tawdry details about the Australian asbestos story.
Both brothers were adamant that there was a fair amount of political skullduggery involved in the development of the Disaster Gorge mine. How they knew was less clear. But much of what Bruce Fraser learned about Henry King Industries and V&L started at Disaster Gorge. Indeed, all investigations into the history of asbestos use in Australia inevita
