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Lead Education and Abatement Design Group
Working to eliminate childhood and foetal lead
poisoning
by the year 2012 and to protect the environment from lead
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Lead
Poisoning: THE SILENT EPIDEMIC.
Transcript of Video made by Joan Luckhardt, produced for the New
Jersey Lead Poisoning Prevention Program in approximately 1992.
Transcribed by Kate Finlay-Jones
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The
LEAD Group Inc, and Lead Advisory Service Australia. Media Releases
1 August 2008
Republication of LEAD Action News
16 May 2008 “Go tell it on the mountain” – Australian NGO launches
policy for lead poisoning prevention
06 April 2008
Time for ban on export of Australian lead for petrol
20_February_2008
Greens Oppose Magellan’s Lead Export Proposal
19 October 2007 International Lead Poisoning Awareness Week 2007 - Points to a lead-safe world
03
August 2007 Recall all leaded products from the mouths of babes
14 March 2007 Esperance residents fear high lead levels in
their air and drinking water.
14 March 2007
Environmental Health Protection neglected in WA… ACE calls for
Independent Inquiry.
14
July 2006 Lead Poisoned Citizens Kept In The Dark By W.A.
Government.
17 November 2005
"Green Lead": Oxymoron or future vision? speech -
Minerals Council of Australia Sustainable Development Conference.
24 October 2005
International Lead Poisoning Awareness Week - Aims and
achievements of The LEAD Group.
27 September 2005
When will government or industry help the community fight global
lead poisoning?
26 July 2005
Control the lead industry! - The LEAD Group demands bans and
Product Stewardship action.
28 April 2005
Lead Workers E-group set up for 10th commemoration of Dead and
Injured workers.
16 March 2005
Media Release from Lynn MacLaren, MLC, WA, Greens spokesperson
for Pollution and Air Quality.
16 March 2005
Media Release from Ms Libby Davy - Advocate for high quality
child care. “No” Vote For Toxic Child Care. The City of
Fremantle Council said “No” this week to a proposal for a
major child care centre that would have set a dangerous
benchmark for children’s health. also see United
Nations Rights of the Child
27 January 2005
Who
will help these 67 countries to ban leaded petrol by end 2005?
25 July 2004 LEAD
Group leading the way: Funding is down but workload is up
14 June 2004
Smoking - a pain in the butt! - World Environment Day Award
winner calls for new cigarette packet warning of increased risk
of butt pain to you and others!
5 June 2004
Elizabeth O'Brien winner of the 2004 UNAA World Environment Day
Award
for Outstanding Service to the Environment category
1 June 2004
Elizabeth O'Brien recognised for outstanding service in lead
poisoning prevention
14 August 2003
USA leads in lead-poisoning elimination
13
May 2003 UNSW Media Release - Lead
Levels Raise Health Concerns
6 January 2003
Early death in adults linked to lead exposure - US study
21 December 2002
Bad news & lead dust under the Christmas tree
20 December 2002
Lead Advisory Service funding debacle
7 June 2002
Australia’s big export – lead poison
7 June 2002
Global Dimensions of Lead Hit Home in Australia, the World's
Largest Lead Producer
17
October 2001 Inaugural International Lead Poisoning
Awareness Day/Week
8 February 2001
Lead companies may sink advisory service
19 October 2000
Alarming inaction over lead poisoning outbreak
16 October 2000
Menzies Centre Study Mars Lead Poisoning Awareness Week
2 October 2000
Tasmanian Public Health Director has All Power but has taken No
Responsibility
2 October 2000
What Does the Menzies Centre Have to Hide?
29 September 2000
Countdown has started for the Lead Advisory Service
5
September 2000 Green Games Sham - Visitors will Breathe
Leaded Air - Why? 55 Countries will have Banned Leaded Petrol
before Australia Does
30 August 2000
Green Games Sham - Visitors will Breathe Leaded Air - Why? 55
Countries will have Banned Leaded Petrol before Australia Does
25 July 2000
Latest Figures from The Lead Advisory Service Australia show
that 0.017% of your lead fuel excise is well spent.
19 May 2000 New
research on the health effects of lead exposure
11 April 2000 Lead
is still an issue! Despite Lead Replacement Petrol now locally
available
4 April 2000 leaded
consumer products
24 December 1999
Pretty skies pretty poisonous
1 December 1999
Ceiling dust woodsmoke and other toxics
26 October 1999
Lead Poisoning Awareness Poster Now Available
21 October 1999
Safe Candles for Lead Poisoning Awareness Week?
19 October 1999
It is Lead Poisoning Awareness Day
13 September 1999
Lead poisoning is recognised internationally as one of the
greatest health risks
9 August 1999
Candles sold in Australia have been found to have lead wicks
5 August 1999 Shame
NSW WA the first to go totally unleaded
9 July 1999
Government policy vital for removal of hazardous lead containing
ceiling dust in "Tarptown"
5 July 1999
Government policy vital for removal of hazardous lead containing
ceiling dust in "Tarptown"
5 June 1999
Australians Need a Toxics Info Line
16
April 1999 Sydney clean up after hail storm may pose hidden
lead contamination dangers
21 December 1998
David and Goliath Battle Taking Shape in the Hunter
14 October
1998 nearly 6,000 children may have too much lead in their
blood
LAS 20
October 1998 Between 16 and 55 children will be lead
poisoned by the time they are four years old
LPAD 20
October 1998 Does the Federal government think that each
Australian child saved from lead poisoning is worth two dollars
4
September 1998 For the sake of breastfed babies – please
be responsible when reporting new research on lead in breastmilk
31 May 1996
Helping at least 75,000 lead poisoned Australian children is not
worth $150,000 to the Federal Government
27 May 1996
Deadline for National LEADLINE Project
19 February 1996
lead foundry - residents demand safe demolition
19 October 1995
Flawed research underestimates lead problem
27 September 1995
Lead contamination scare Councils risk legal action
26 April 1995
Australia is the lone objector to global lead petrol phase-out
19 March 1995
Blood Lead Testing - City Children Neglected
17 March 1995 Lead
Centre maybe...
16 September 1994
lead workers - second class citizens
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