Reports

These are reports about the Kimberley herbicide spraying and the APB workers.

This page contains links and downloads for reports such as the "famous" long-awaited Armstrong Inquiry, which reviewed Prof. Andrew Harper's Report, which was going to provide the definitive decision on providing assistance to the workers, but didn't. That report came after the review by...and so on.

While more innocent people suffer and die. ...Quite an art-form really.

Short Report Feb 2004 of the Expert Medical Panel to Evaluate the Kimberley Chemical Exposure		Interim Report Feb 2003 of the Expert Medical Panel to Evaluate the Kimberley Chemical Exposure
... Dr Harper's report, The Kimberley Chemical Use Review, stated that illness did develop in. association with the herbicides used in the spray program, ...		... Dr Andrew Harper in his Kimberley Chemical Use Review that illness did develop among former APB workers in the Kimberley in association with exposure to herbicide sprays they applied between 1975 and


Kimberley Chemical Use Review		Toxic Chemicals WA Compensation Agriculture
Committee Friday, 24 October 2003, Release of Report - Statement by Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Committee Reports & Ministerial Statements - Resumed from 26 September 2002.		The West Australian on March 4, 2004. FORMER government sprayers have been sold a dud in their bid for compensation for chemical injury, according to the physician who reviewed herbicide use in the Kimberley.


Agent Orange herbicide compensation decision		Inquiry Into Toxic Herbicides (transcript)
7.30 report Australian Broadcasting 17/02/2004.: Government appeared to accept responsibility for the men's case after its own inquiry recommended compensation.		ABC Radio AM, 27/10/2000. ...parliamentary committee has called for the inquiry after it found that those who worked with the chemicals may have died or suffered significant health problems as a result.


Chemical Consequences, (Transcript)		Greens seek Gallop resignation over chemical compo
ABC National Radio 18th April 2004: Mark Horstman. This story starts nearly 30 years ago in West Australia’s remote Kimberley region, where a State government’s use of 245-T and 24-D has come back to haunt us.		Friday, 15 October 2004 The WA Greens are calling for Premier Geoff Gallop to resign if he does not ensure workers in the Kimberley, in the state's north-west, are granted reasonable compensation for exposure to a toxic herbicide.


Inquiry finds toxic batch of chemicals brought into WA		West Australia 'covered up' weed-killing deaths
PM - 2 November, 2004, MARK COLVIN: Have we got any closer to solving the long-standing mystery of a group of West Australian workers who believe they were poisoned while weed-spraying in the '70s and '80s?		The Observer: David Fickling in Sydney, 29 September 2002, the West Australian government last week finally admitted responsibility ... But compensation for those affected, and for the families of the dead, is still no nearer.


Westralia.Net's "DERBY DIOXIN REPORT"		Westralia.Net's "Letter to Australian Labour Party"
The insuppressed Evidence Of UNREGULATED DIOXIN Exposure and Source		Letter written th September 2005


245-T in Vic & Qld		Farmers want compensation (TRANSCRIPT)
“The Same Chemical”. Same stories arising from the ashes of people’s lives, post exposure to this heinous chemical.		7.30 Report: 10/03/2004, KERRY O'BRIEN: Extensive investigations in WA have failed to track the ultimate destination of a rogue batch of the herbicide dumped in Australia during the Vietnam War.


Agent Orange in the Kimberley. (Transcript)		Western Australian Government Literature Review
ABC National Radio, Perspective 23 September 2004 ...Expert Committee concluded that the dioxin in the spray had caused cancer in the sprayers and those with cancer could be compensated. As for workers without cancer, but suffering from non-specific illness, which were the majority of those with ill health, the battle may be lost.		On the Human Health Effects associated with Exposure to the herbicides 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D and dioxins. Prepared for the Department of Health, Government of Western Australia. August 2003


Western Australian Government Final Report
Report of The Expert Medical Panel to Evaluate Recommendations of the Kimberley Chemical use review December 2003