An article in the October 20th issue of The Australian discusses the "new tide" of Australian asbestos victims. Not just construction laborers and factory workers anymore, this "third wave" of victims, as they are called, are increasingly female and are "getting younger all the time." This shift in the face of asbestos disease in Australia has been attributed to the large number of home renovations and other do-it-yourself projects which took place during the 60's, 70's and 80's, particularly in South Australia where the biggest increase in mesothelioma cases has occurred. According to Armando Gardiman, managing partner of Turner Freeman Lawyers, "the number of home renovation victims coming forward has grown significantly since 2000." Many of the victims lived, as children, in homes that were being renovated, and they are now being diagnosed with mesothelioma. On the national level, the number of mesothelioma deaths has grown steadily since the late 1990's, with 522 Australians dying from the disease in 2005 alone. That's a twenty-five percent increase from 1997.