Mine fire caused child distress

Description

New data reveals Morwell children experienced higher levels of distress associated with the 2014 Hazelwood mine fire than school students who lived elsewhere in the Latrobe Valley.

But the smoke event did not lower NAPLAN results at Morwell schools, the Schools Study has found.

The surveys were part of the Psychological Impacts stream of the long-term Hazelwood Health Study, and were looking at the prevalence and persistence in distress following the six-week mine fire