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Chapter 9 - Reasons for the Legacy: Disregard of the Medical Knowledge, Pursuit
of Profit and CSR’s Secret Defence Strategy ......................................... 277
Emerging Asbestos Knowledge and Efforts to Safeguard Wittenoom Workers ............................. 278
CSR and the Department of Mines: Success at All Costs .............................................................. 291
Dust Counts and Ventilation ............................................................................................................ 301
CSR’s Secret Defence Strategy ...................................................................................................... 305
Litigation and Future Claims ............................................................................................................ 308
Conclusion ................................................................................... 316
Select Bibliography ........................................................................ 328
1. Primary Sources .......................................................................................................................... 328
2. Secondary Sources ..................................................................................................................... 340
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List of Figures
1: Map of Western Australia
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2: View of remaining houses in Wittenoom 2010
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3: The Pilbara landscape 2010
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4: Wittenoom Gem Store 2010
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5: Wittenoom Gorge
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6: View of Hamersley Ranges
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7: Mulla Mulla wild flowers
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8: Celeste, Giacomina & Attilio Oprandi
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9: Terraced vineyards in the Valtellina 2008
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10: Rosa Tamburri’s family
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11: Pio Panizza and workmates at the Bissinia Dam Project
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12: Attilio Oprandi at the Galleria Col di Tenda construction site
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13: The Lombard miners of the Seriana Valley February 1951
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14: Immigration Hall, Fremantle Port 2009
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15: A typical stone house in Italy, c. 1940s
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16: Miriam Panizza at Port of Genoa 1965
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17: Pio & Miriam Panizza’s wedding reception 1965
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18: Wundowie asbestos houses
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19: DC 3 at Wittenoom airport
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20: Aerial view of Wittenoom
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21: Wittenoom Gorge Airport
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22: Spinifex cover on Hamersley Ranges, c. late 1950s
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23: Toni Ranieri mining blue asbestos
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24: Miners after a day’s work
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25: Locomotive transporting the ore
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26: The entrance (adit) to the mine c. 1957
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27: Section of the road to the mine
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28: Section of the road to the mine
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29: Section of the road to the mine
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30: Descent into the lower levels of the mine
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31: The lunch room in the mine
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32: The four levels of the mill directly below the mine
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33: The conveyor carrying the ore to the picking belt
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34: The picking belt
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35: Makeshift repairs to the ducts with hessian sacks
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36: The thread-like blue asbestos fibre
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37: Cleaning up the mill, c. 1965
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38: Baggers in the mill, c. early 1960s
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39: Tailings strewn across the Wittenoom landscape
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40: Miner with helmet but no respirator
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41: A young Italian miner’s knee protection
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42: Toni Ranieri modelling a respirator
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43: Men working bare-chested
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44: A view of the houses in Wittenoom
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45: Single men's accommodation
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46: Inside a single man's hut
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47: In the single men's compound
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48: Vines to keep the houses cool
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49: Italian miners with shaven heads
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50: Enjoying a drink at the Fortescue Hotel
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51: Keeping cool
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52: Swimming in one of the local gorges
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53: Doing the washing
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54: Wittenoom: The Wild West
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55: Making their own music
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56: Filling the air with music
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57: The asbestos tailings competition at the Wittenoom Races
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58: The Wittenoom Races
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59: The Italian soccer team
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60: The “Rest of the World” soccer team at Wittenoom
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61: Off for the hunt
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62: A successful catch
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63: All dressed up for a night of Two Up
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64: Nazzarena Mirandola and her daughters at Morley Park
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65: Lina Tagliaferri's Johnson plates
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66: Saucepans from the Wittenoom tip
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Figure 67: Rosa & Mario Tamburri and their other family members
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68: Rosa Tamburri working in the Italian bar
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69: Bruno Giannasi & two boarders enjoying one of Valentina's meals
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70: Bruno & Valentina Giannasi with boarder, Arturo Della Maddalena
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71: Nazzarena Mirandola & family, c. 1962
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72: Nazzarena & her daughters, 15th August 1962
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73: Somewhere in outback Australia c. 1964
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74: Lea Guagnin in Wittenoom 1957
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75: Four year old Fulvia's birthday outfit
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76: A vegetable garden in Wittenoom
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77: A chicken coup
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78: The grotto
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79: A bird house to attract local bird life
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80: Altar of Corpus Christi Catholic Church 1957
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81: Wittenoom Catholic Church 2010
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82: The Catholic convent 2010
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83: Internal view of the church in 2010
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84: Extract from the Wittenoom General Cemetery Register
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85: Andrew, Frank & Luigi Bonomi
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86: Lina Tagliaferri and son Carlo
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87: Christening day of one of the Bonomi children
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88: First Communion of Lina's daughter Maria
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89: Rosa Tamburri and her goddaughter
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90: Farewell party for a Canadian manager c. mid 1950s
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91: Cecilia & Mario Bonomi on their wedding day in Wittenoom
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92: A group of Italians enjoying the Wittenoom Races
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93: Children on the back of ute
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94: Maria Scali with her cat
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95: A racehorse goanna called an Iguana by the Italians
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96: Desks & chairs inside Corpus Christi Catholic Church
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97: Maria Scali's First Communion Day
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98: A school sporting event c. late 1950s
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99: The Giannasi family, Christmas in Wittenoom
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100: Andrew Bonomi on his tricycle
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101: Mario Bonomi with his son Andrew on the merry-go-round
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102: Fulvia Guagnin, aged 4, with her doll, Jennie
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103: Egizio Guagnin's favourite morning tea cake
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104: Fulvia Guagnin dealing with the heat
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105: Fulvia at Fulvio Sterpini's 4th birthday party
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106: Noelle, Michael & Julie Martino at one of the gorges
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107: A group of girls in Wittenoom
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108: The Panizza home, Vermiglio, Trentino Alto Adige 2008
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109: 1990: the last Wittenoom Races
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110: Pio Panizza cutting timber in Wundowie
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111: Miriam Panizza and daughter, Rosy, Perth
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112: Pio Panizza beside his truck
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113: The original Oprandi home at Bullsbrook
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114: Part of Oprandi land in 2010, with regrowth of native vegetation
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115: The Oprandi home built to replace the original baracca
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116: Toni Ranieri in the early days of his business
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117: Vermiglio, Trentino Alto Adige, winter 2008
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118: Giacomo Bevacqua's success reported in a Perth newspaper
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119: Butterflies made from asbestos victims' x-rays
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