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Pike River families say their meeting with the Workplace Safety Minister was "a complete waste of time".
Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse sat down with Workplace Safety Minister Brooke van Velden at Parliament on the 15th anniversary of the Pike River disaster.
"I don't know, I've come out of there still feeling really unhappy because there's just no guarantees that people who go to work are going to return home safely," Obsorne said.
"She seemed to be focusing all the time on the employers and I sat and listened to it for a little while and then I just couldn't stand it," Rockhouse said.
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Both women went into the meeting want
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