Devil’s Dust
Drama / 2 x 90' / HD, Airline, DVD, Non-Theatric
A FremantleMedia Australia Production for ABC Australia & Screen Australia
Devil’s Dust is a thriller of David and Goliath proportions, ripping the cloak of secrecy from a huge corporate scandal that exposes how multi-national company, James Hardie, oversaw a strategy to ignore the dangers of asbestos for decades, leaving them responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
This 2 part story is the battle between a few brave individuals and a corporate superpower – a corporation with the unions which even at one point had the Government behind it.
At the heart of this story are three men. Matt Peacock, an ABC Television investigative journalist, Bernie Banton, a former worker of the company who joined the cause to bring the company to justice, and Adam Bourke, spin king extraordinaire, whose brilliance at turning a negative into something positive allowed James Hardie to get away with so much for so long.
This story is a battle for the truth to be told and a battle for justice to be done.
Starring:
Anthony Hayes as BERNIE BANTON (Total Control, Mystery Road, The Twelve)
Ewen Leslie as MATT PEACOCK (The Cry, Safe Harbour, The Twelve)
Don Hany as ADAM BOURKE (Picnic At Hanging Rock, Bad Mothers, The Survivors)
Alexandra Schepisi as KAREN BANTON (The Newsreader, Wentworth, The Leftovers)
Pip Miller as JOHN REID (Safe Harbour, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Playing Gracie Darling)
Daniel Henshall as JOCK MCKENZIE (Mystery Road: Origin, The Family Next Door, The Newsreader)
John Batchelor as JACK RUSH QC (Wonderland, Reckoning, Pleasant Avenue)