Michael West Media · AAP · Thursday 28 May 2026
The government is making its "largest legal claim ever" against a multinational company after 28 defence bases were contaminated with "forever chemicals".
Twenty-eight defence bases doused in foam that doesn't break down, and we're suing 3M in 2026 for chemicals they sold us in the 1970s. The lawyers will retire on this one. Meanwhile the groundwater at Williamtown still glows in the dark and the locals are reading toxicology reports instead of the property pages. Justice arrives by the decade in this country, and the half-life arrives by the millennium.