
From the Crisis Vault: Beaconsfield Mine Collapse
By Alex Liddington-Cox In April 2006, a small earthquake in the Australian town of Beaconsfield resulted in a mine collapse that claimed the life of goldminer Larry Knight. The subsequent effort to rescue who two surviving colleagues, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, fixed the world’s attention on the small Tasmanian town. In the first part of a new series from Crisis Shield, we take a look back at one of Australia’s biggest stories. How the media turned on its stakeholders, and