In the witness box, the Longford workers weren't asked about their nightmares of searing flames and blood. They weren't asked about the bravery it takes to go back to the plant, day after day, after something like this. They weren't asked about the laughs they had shared with Wilson, the local boy who made good without losing his larrikin streak. And they weren't asked about the advice that the stoic Lowery, with his encyclopaedic knowledge of the plant, had offered them. But, in the shadow of the gas plant's towers of steel, at a new garden opened last month, the dead will be remembered after the commission report is forgotten.
Workers can eat lunch there, next to the roses and camellias under a shadecloth shelter.
Tragically taken on September 25th 1998. Gone but not forgotten. Any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited.