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| Push for a workers memorial to be built |
A former BHP worker is stepping up his campaign to have a memorial built to workers who were killed at the Newcastle Steelworks.
When the steelworks closed in 1999, Aubrey Brooks was assured a memorial would be built, but almost 12 years on, it is yet to be erected. More than $5,000 was donated for the construction, but so far only a few plaques have been made.
Mr Brooks says he has written to a number of authorities urging them to get the memorial built.
"I've been in touch with Workcover and I've been in touch with some past BHP managers," he said.
"I've also been in contact with the Australian Workers Union and various other people to try and get this underway and the ideal place in my opinion to put it is the Muster Point.
"This not a witchhunt, this not to find fault with anybody about why it hasn't been done. But the object of the story is now is to get done.
"Let's build this monument to these people that lost their lives in the development of Newcastle and Australia."
