Asbestos in Australia: From Boom to Dust 1925835618, 9781925835618

Table of 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 & 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
Lenore Layman
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 & Alison Reid
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 & Gordon Lawyer
Chapter 17. The James Hardie Story
Gideon Haigh, Historian
Chapter 18. The Bernie Banton Story
Greg Combet, ACTU Secretary
Index