How can you not be drawn to a newspaper headline like that?
Waiting for my sandwich order at the University cafe, I sat down to peruse the local newspaper - and this was the front page headline. The story was illustrated with a sad looking older man outside a nice looking house with the typical Australian tin roof.
Apparently, Mr Fluffy is - or rather was - the brand name of an asbestos based insulation product that was used on Canberra homes built decades ago. These homes have now been identified and will be bought by the government and demolished because of the dangers of living in them. They will also need to contact around 30,000 people who have at one point or the other lived in one of the identified homes. The house in question is apparently one of the oldest houses in the area - hence the tin roof - although that term is of course relative - I have dishes older than the oldest houses in Canberra.
Anyway, having lived in his house for forty years, having brought his first child home to the house, and now watching his grandchildren play in the garden, the homeowner is being forcibly repossessed and will have to move out.
Another victim of Mr Fluffy.
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