Asbestos in Australia : From Boom to Dust.

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 -- 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 &amp -- 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 &amp -- Gordon Lawyer -- Chapter 17. The James Hardie Story -- Gideon Haigh, Historian -- Chapter 18. The Bernie Banton Story -- Greg Combet, ACTU Secretary -- Index.

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