Asbestos in Australia : from boom to dust / edited by Lenore Layman & Gail Phillips.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Layman, Lenore, editor.

Phillips, Gail, editor.

Series:

Australian History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asbestos--Environmental aspects--Australia--History.

Asbestos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 346 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

Asbestos in Australia.

Contents:

Front cover

Title Page

About this Book

Copyright and Imprint Information

Contents

List of Figures

Figure 1: Witness Seminar panel

Figure 1.1: Total asbestos fibre imports to Australia [in short tons].

Figure 1.2: Comparison of asbestos fibre prices, Australia 1950-1966

Figure 2.1: A popular attraction at Sydney Royal Easter Show 1949

Figure 2.2: "Shangri-la" built of fibro, western Sydney, 1949

Figure 2.3: A fibro streetscape, western Sydney, 1946

Figure 2.4: Numbers of fibro houses 1921-1971 and as percentage of all occupied private houses

Figure 2.5: Distribution of fibro houses, Sydney 1971

Figure 2.6: Asbestos insulation blanket on turbine at East Perth Power Station

Figure 6.1: Wittenoom workers (men)

Figure 6.2: Australian workers (men)

Figure 8.1: A miner drills in the narrow stope of the Australian Blue Asbestos mine, Wittenoom

Figure 9.1: Workers bag asbestos fibre at Baryulgil mill

Figure 11.1: Asbestos Awareness Healthy House Checklist

Figure 11.2: Airborne asbestos fibre concentrations (fibres/mL) measured during selected renovation activities

Figure 13.1: Testing dust levels at Wittenoom's mine and mill, 1966

Figure 14.1: Robert and Rose Marie Vojakovic standing outside Parliament House, Perth with some of the widows of Wittenoom

Figure 14.2: Remembering the dead

Figure 15.1: Dr Greg Deleuil

Figure 15.2: Alice Deleuil, in the family home in Darwin surrounded by asbestos louvres

Acknowledgements

About the Contributors

Introduction

Lenore Layman &amp

Gail Phillips

Part 1. The Rise and Fall of the Asbestos Industry

Chapter 1. The Asbestos Industry in Australia

Lenore Layman

Chapter 2. Asbestos in the Built Environment

Chapter 3. Tackling the Dust Hazard: The Response of Public Health

Lenore Layman.

Chapter 4. Uncovering the Story: Asbestos in the Media

Chris Smyth

Part 2. Asbestos Related Disease: The Medical Journey

Chapter 5. Milestones in the Knowledge and Treatment of Asbestos Related Diseases

A W (Bill) Musk

Chapter 6. Asbestos and Mesothelioma-Fifty Years On

Geoffrey Berry

Chapter 7. Health Outcomes of the Women and Children Who Lived at Wittenoom

Alison Reid

Part 3. Damaged Communities

Chapter 8. Memories of Wittenoom

Chapter 9 .Working and Living in Baryulgil

Part 4. Asbestos in the Courts: The Battles for Compensation

Chapter 10. The History of Asbestos Litigation

John Gordon

Part 5. Asbestos Today: The Lingering Legacy

Chapter 11. The Ongoing Problem of Asbestos In Situ

Peter Franklin &amp

Part 6. In Their Own Words: The Witness Stories

Chapter 12. Wittenoom's Flying Doctor

Dr Eric Saint

Chapter 13. A Public Health Campaigner's Story

Dr Jim McNulty, Occupational Health Physician

Chapter 14. The Story of the Asbestos Diseases Society of Australia

Robert Vojakovic, President

Chapter 15. A Life Recast by Asbestos

Dr Greg Deleuil, General Practitioner

Chapter 16. The Litigator's Story

Peter Gordon, Slater &amp

Gordon Lawyer

Chapter 17. The James Hardie Story

Gideon Haigh, Historian

Chapter 18. The Bernie Banton Story

Greg Combet, ACTU Secretary

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-925835-59-6

1-925835-60-X

OCLC:

1484075079