Newcrest’s Cadia gold mine tailings dam collapse in 2018 still causing health issues

Garry Haines was out checking calving cows on November 6 last year in the picturesque Errowanbang valley in New South Wales when suddenly he could not breathe.

Thick, white dust coated the pasture he was riding his bike through.

“The dust was coming up off the grass, from the dust event that happened a few days before,” he said.

“And when you’re following cattle along they’re walking through it, so the dust is coming back up from them.”

Mr Haines was forced to abort his rounds of the expectant Murray Grey mothers that morning and attend his local GP immediately.

“It got to the point I couldn’t breathe, and I…