VALE Stewart Harrity

Stewart Harrity with wife Judy and Grandson Lachlan by Rosey Boehm

Adelaide wharfie Stewart Harrity unloaded sacks of raw asbestos off ships consigned for the James Hardie fibro plants up the road in Larges Bay and Elizabeth West until the mid seventies. Last July aged 58 and still working on the wharves, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma. He died in December.

“We loaded the stuff in hessian bags. They’d bust open and it would be blowing all over the place. We had no idea of the danger. The wind would blow it all over the deck, all over the wharf. Everybody was exposed to it. The guys up in the derricks. Everyone.”

The SA Branch called a media conference before Stuart Harrity’s funeral

“We are outraged that another member has died from an asbestos related disease at the height of the James Hardie asbestos scandal,” said Branch Secretary Jamie Newlyn.

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