Era: 1960’s

31/8/24: Paraquat. Scientists work to unravel silent pandemic affecting farmers
2022 October: Peregrine Falcon Resurgence coming back from near Extinction
June 6 2020: TasNetworks (Hydro Electric Commission) Pay Pesticide Compensation. Pesticide: 2,4,5-T
1960’s: Warriewood Valley (NSW). Death Valley/Poisoned Paddocks. Pesticides: DDT, Dieldrin
2016 September: Study Confirms Widespread Pesticide Pollution of Australian Waterways
1960’s-1970’s: Australians spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam
2016 March: Thousands of Victorian Public Servants Exposed to Toxic Chemicals.
2016 March: Ex-forestry worker airs herbicide worry. Pesticides: 2,4-D, Picloram
1960’s – 1970’s. Pesticides used by Australia in Vietnam War: Dieldrin, Chlordane, Lindane, Diazinon, DDT, Malathion
1960’s – 1970’s: Australian Troops Exposed to 2,4,5-T, Dieldrin
1965 August – 1971: Mimosa pigra control. Adelaide River (NT). Pesticides: 2,4,5-T, 2,4-D, Picloram
1950’s – 1990’s: Contamination of cattle dip sites in NSW & Qld. Pesticides: DDT, Ethion
1968 February – 1968 November: Dowey’s Spur (Vic) Phasmatid Spraying. Pesticide: Malathion
1968 January – 1973 February: Brittania Creek (Vic) Phasmatid Control. Pesticide: Malathion
1966 February: Ada River Headwaters Phasmatid Control. Pesticide: Malathion
1961 January: Nariel (Vic) Forests Commission aerial spraying Phasmatids. Pesticide: DDT
1966 December: Rosebud Foreshore (Vic). Ground spraying for Mosquitos
1962 April: Merbein (Vic). Proposal to aerial spray to control Fruit Fly. Pesticides: DDT or Malathion
1965 October: Yarram Caravan Park Aerial Spraying. Pesticides: DDT, Malathion
1965 October: Aerial Spraying Latrobe Valley Water and Sewerage Board farming area. Pesticides: DDT, Malathion
1965 October: Proposal to aerial spray 90 Mile Beach (Vic). Pesticide: Diazinon
1965: Loch Sport. Aerial Spraying Mosquito Control. Pesticides: DDT, Dieldrin, Malathion
1964 December – 1969 December: Seaspray Foreshore. Pesticides: Malathion, Fenthion, DDT, Dieldrin
1967 – 1969 December: Eagle Point Paynesville (Vic). Aerial Spraying: Pesticide: Fenthion, Malathion, DDT
1965: Jandowae (Qld) 2,4,5-T spraying Brigalow “Scrub”
1960’s: Mullewa – Geraldton Trainline. Flower death through spray drift.
1960’s: Yandanooka – Three Springs Rail Line (WA). Spraydrift killed off Flowers
1968: Pinkenba (Qld) Spray drift from industrial plants
1964: Geraldton (WA). Spray drift losses to tomatoes. Pesticide: 2,4-D
1960’s: Burke Street Ayr (Qld). Spray drift from cane fields.
1969: North Stradbroke Island (Qld). Australia’s first aerial spraying of mosquitos.
2005 December: Port Jackson Bream Dioxin Results (NSW)
1967 August: Black Rock (Vic). Anecdotes from a Bird Observer. Pesticide: Dieldin
1967 June: Truck Accident Sunday Creek (Vic). Pesticides: DDT, Phosmet
1964/5: Bamawm Drain Weed Control. Pesticide: Amitrole
1964/5: Deakin Drain (Vic). Aquatic Weed Control. Pesticide: Amitrole
1961 March: Tongala (Vic). Weed Control in Drains. Pesticide: Amitrole – highest level 19,500ug/L
1961 – 1966: Ovens River, Myrtleford. Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area
1961 – 1966: Ovens River, Ovens. Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area
1961 – 1966: Barwidgee Creek (Vic). Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area
1961 – 1966: Dandongadale River (Vic). Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area
1961 – 1966: Whitlands (Vic) Boggy Creek. Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area
1961 – 1966: King Valley (King River). Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area.
1961 – 1966: Upper Edi (Vic). King River Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area
1961 – 1966: Whitfield (Vic). King River Fisk Kill. Tobacco Growing Area.
1961 – 1966: Whitfield (Vic). King River Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area.
1961 – 1966: Whitfield (Vic). King River Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area.
1961 -1966: Whitfield (Vic). King River. Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area
1961 – 1966: Cheshunt (Vic). Stony Creek. Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area.
1961 – 1966: Cheshunt (Vic) Stony Creek. Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area
1961 -1966: King River near Cheshunt (Vic). Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area.
1961 – 1966: Fifteen Mile Creek (Vic). Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area.
1961 – 1966: Yarrarbulla Creek, (Vic). Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area.
1961 – 1966: Merriang South (Vic) Fish Kill – Buffalo River
1961 – 1966: Merriang South (Vic) Buffalo River. Fish Kill due to aerial spraying.
1961 – 1966: Gapsted Ovens River. Fish Kill. Tobacco Growing Area
1961-1966: Fish Kill Ovens River. Tobacco Growing Area.
1966: Whitfield and surrounds (Vic). Fish Kills
1965 February: Myrtleford Region – Ovens River. Spray drift, water pollution.
1960’s: King River (Vic). Fish Kills from aerial spraying.
1960 December + 1963: Myrtle Creek Myrtleford Fish Kill. Pesticide: DDT
1961 January: Yellow Creek (Vic) Fish Kill.
1960 July: Mildura complain of SRWSC impacting on vines. Pesticide: 2,4-D
1962 December: Malmsbury Reservoir Spillway. Pesticides: Amitrole, Diquat, Paraquat
1965? Boggy Creek/Thompson River (Vic). Pesticides: Amitrole, Diuron
1965?: Macalister River Weed Control. Pesticides: Amitrole, Diuron
1962 June – 1962 September: Tongala drains (Vic). Pesticide: Monuron
1961 November: Swan Hill District. Pesticide: Monuron
1968 – 1986: Emerald Region (Qld) Workers Exposed to Carcinogenic Insecticide: Chlordimeform
1968 -1986: Moree (NSW) Workers Exposed to Carcinogenic Pesticide: Chlordimeform
1960’s – 1980’s: Christmas Creek Station Spray Workers. Pesticides: 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T
1960’s – 1980’s: Fitzroy River Weed Sprayers Exposed: Pesticides: 2,4,5-T, 2,4-D
1960’s – 1980’s: Spray Workers Ord River Exposed: Pesticides 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T
1960’s: Kununurra (WA) Cattle Contaminated with DDT used in Cotton Crops
1964 – 1974: Ord River Region. Pesticides: DDT, DDE, Toxaphene
1950’s – 1982: Herdsman Lake (WA). Pesticides: Dieldrin, DDT, Chlorpyrifos, Heptachlor, Chlordane
1964 – 1978: Ord River Pesticide Residues. Organophosphates, Organochlorines.
1960’s – 1980’s: Sugarcane farmer health issues: Pesticides: 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T, DDT, DDE, Dieldrin
1960’s – 1990’s: Northern Flinders Ranges: Dieldrin
1950’s – 1980’s: Ovens Valley. Pesticides: DDT, Aldrin, Dieldrin, Heptachlor, Chlordane
1950’s – 1960’s. Willowtree Road, Ferntree Gully.
1950 – 1967: Sandringham. Pesticide of concern: Heptachlor, Dieldrin
1950’s – 2000’s: McBryde Street. Pesticide of concern: 2,4-D
1950’s – 2010’s: Nufarm Coogee Kwinana (WA). Contaminated Site
1904 – 1994: Midland Railway Workshops (WA). Contaminated Site
1949 – 1986: Union Carbide owned Rhodes (Homebush Bay). Pesticides included: 2,4,5-T, 2,4-D
1961 March: Tongala (Vic). Pesticides detected: Amitrole
1966 – 1971: King River Fish Kills.
1965 December: Yarrabula Creek Fish Kill.
1965: Wandiligong fish Kill. Pesticides detected: Endrin, DDT
1967 March: Snob’s Creek Fish Hatchery
1969 May: Mitchell River Spray Regimes
1965 – 1973: Nufarm Operations in Fawkner
1960 – 2015: Gunnamatta Outfall Melbourne Water
1971 June – 1971 December: State Rivers and Water Supply Commission Testing Results: Broken Creek Nathalia
2005 June – 2012 October: Broken Creek Numurkah. Pesticides detected: PCP, Atrazine, Simazine and 2,4-D
2014/15: Toxic Legacy Lands Department Workers Linton (Vic). Pesticide: 2,4,5-T (Dioxin TCDD)
1966 November: Woorinen (Vic) Spray Drift.
1964-66: Australian Army Tests Pesticides Innisfail Queensland
1969-71: Rogue batch 2,4,5-T used at Beerwah Queensland
1969-71: Rogue batch of 2,4,5-T Dwellingup WA
1969-71: Rogue batch of 2,4,5-T used near Derby (WA)
1969-71: Bad batch of 2,4,5-T used near Deception Bay Queensland
1969-1971: Bad batch of 2,4,5-T used near Yarraman Queensland
1969-71: Bad batch of 2,4,5-T Imbil Queensland
1969-71: Beerburrum bad batch of pesticide: 2,4,5-T
1969-1971: Atherton Tablelands Queensland Plantations: Pesticide 2,4,5-T
1969-1971: Rogue batch of pesticides Forest Plantations Queensland. Pesticide: 2,4,5-T
1966 June-July: Wanneroo (WA) Milk Contamination: Pesticide: Dieldrin.
1968: Loch Valley (Vic). Aerial Spraying of 2,4,5-T begins in Victoria.
1968: Loch Valley and Strathbogie Ranges (Vic). Aerial Spraying of 2,4,5-T begins.
1965: Spray Drift in the Swan Hill District. Pesticide: 2,4-D.
1963: Heytsbury (Vic) Pollution Incident – Telodrin
1994 Feb: Port Phillip Bay Flathead contaminated with pesticides
2005 January: Pesticides Linked to Breast Cancer in Victoria
2006: Worst Groundwater Pollution in Southern Hemisphere