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the Specialist Reporting Team's Leonie Thorne and national consumer affairs reporter Michael Atkin

Ministers to mull engineered stone import ban as unions warn of silicosis 'epidemic' among workers

As a single mum, Jo Mcneill worries about what having silicosis means for her future. (Supplied: Jo Mcneill)

As an office worker, Jo Mcneill never thought she would become one of hundreds of Australians with a disease usually seen among stonemasons. 

But after five years in an administrative role at a Victorian quarry, that's exactly what a general medical check-up confirmed.

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