1950’s – 2000’s: McBryde Street. Pesticide of concern: 2,4-D

"If they are not the result of chemical exposure, why do we have a chronic fatigue syndrome cluster coinciding with cotton spraying around Breeza, three cases of rare neuroblastoma cancer at Moree, another cotton-growing area; and widespread Illness at Kingston, Queensland, where a housing estate was built on  a toxic waste dump, and in McBride Street, Melbourne, close by a former 2,4-D factory?..." p149 Chemical Crisis One Woman's Story. Humanity's Future? 1994

“If they are not the result of chemical exposure, why do we have a chronic fatigue syndrome cluster coinciding with cotton spraying around Breeza, three cases of rare neuroblastoma cancer at Moree, another cotton-growing area; and widespread Illness at Kingston, Queensland, where a housing estate was built on  a toxic waste dump, and in McBryde Street, Melbourne, close by a former 2,4-D factory?…” p149 Chemical Crisis One Woman’s Story. Humanity’s Future? 1994