Australian Pesticides Map

 
 
 
https://www.aghealth.org.au/tinymce_fm/uploaded/Research%20Reports/health_safety_aus_farming_community_2000.pdf
 
“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
 
In the cotton shire of Moree, four rare neuroblastomas and another similar rare cancer have been diagnosed in children within a few years. Quick Poison Slow Poison Pesticide Risk in the Lucky Country. Kate Short 1994.

1980’s Moree NSW. General Cluster of Neuroblastoma, Cotton pesticides.

8.9 Community exposure to pesticides
Communities have an increasing concern about the use and safety of pesticides. The past 20
years or so has seen a number of communities express concern over potential and/or
perceived adverse health effects of pesticides in use in adjoining or previous agricultural
production. Table 7.9 briefly summarises a number of these events.
Early to late 1980’s, Moree NSW, Cotton, General, Later General Cluster of Neuroblastoma. 

Community Liaison Committee NAIHO study of the health problems of Aboriginal Cotton Workers. Survey of doctors in cotton area. Plan for Adverse Impact Register pilot
https://www.aghealth.org.au/tinymce_fm/uploaded/Research%20Reports/health_safety_aus_farming_community_2000.pdf
“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
In the cotton shire of Moree, four rare neuroblastomas and another similar rare cancer have been diagnosed in children within a few years. Quick Poison Slow Poison Pesticide Risk in the Lucky Country. Kate Short 1994.