Australian Related Chemical Warfare Articles

1985  The Gillis Report – Australian Field Trials with Mustard Gas

01 March 1999  Keen as Mustard Book Review

26 January 2002  Toxic Gas Dumps Litter Coastline

28 January 2002  Hunt for WWII Deadly Gas Dump

30 January 2002  Hundreds of Chemical Weapons Dumped

03 February 2002  Toxic Time Bomb Decays off Coast

10 March 2002  Burnet’s Solution: The Plan to Poison S-E Asia

16 July 2002  Safety Study Of Toxic Sea Sites Sacked

16 July 2002  Mustard Gas Dumped Off Coast Leaking

17 July 2002  Lab Tests Chemical  Weapons 

21 July 2002  Fears Of Coastal Mustard Gas Leak

20 August 2002  Questions on Notice – Chemical Weapons Testing

2003  Chemical Warfare Agent Sea Dumping off Australia (see new 4th Edn)

2003  Sea Dumping In Australia   (see new 4th Edn of Chemical Munitions Sea Dumping)

28 May 2003  Stolen Gas Cylinder May Contain Mustard Gas

17 December 2004  Trawlers Dredge Up Weapons 

30 October 2005  The Deadliness Below (Part 1)

30 October 2005  The Deadliness Below (Part 2)

30 October 2005  Dumping Was Carried Out On A Global Scale

03 November 2005  Hunt For US Weapons Dump off NZ Coast

2006  Buried At Sea  (film in which Australia is mentioned)

06 November 2006  Concern WWII Chemical Dump Off NSW Coast

25 April 2007  Our Sacrifice, at Home & Abroad

01 November 2007  Yuraygir National Park

20 January 2008  Deadly Chemicals Hidden In War Cache

27 January 2008  Blisters From Mustard Gas

15 February 2008  Geoff’s Terrible Secret War

28 February 2008  Author Lifts Lid On Chemical Warfare History

12 March 2008  Brought Back Memories

26 March 2008  Glenbrook’s Secret Past

30 March 2008  Book Review – Chemical Warfare in Australia

31 March 2008  A Deadly Menace

10 April 2008  Guinea Pigs Tell A Testing Tale

01 May 2008  Chemical Warfare And Railway Tunnels

07 May 2008  Mushroom Mystery

24 May 2008  The Big Secret

24 May 2008  Our Toxic Secret

24 June 2008  Parliamentary Speech – David Bradbury MP

26 June 2008  Memories Of Mustard Gas

08 July 2008  The Big Secret – Our Mustard Gas Conspiracy

08 July 2008  Mustard Gas Tainted Our Reputation

17 July 2008  Chemical Experiments In The Eighties

17 July 2008  Hidden Newnes Forest Storage Has Added To Puzzle

25 July 2008  Conversation Hour With Richard Fidler

01 August 2008  Frank Fights On For Duty Justice

03 August 2008  Book Review – Chemical Warfare in Australia

05 August 2008  Railway Historians Join Chemical Warfare Issue

07 August 2008  Bases’s Phantom War Reveals Its Secrets

14 August 2008  Hidden Stories Of War

15 August 2008  Soldiers Were Guinea Pigs for Chemical Weapons

15 August 2008  Deadly Weapons Used To Stump Dance Hall

15 August 2008  They Were Only 19 – Armourer Recounts

30 August 2008  Memories Rise To Surface

04 September 2008  Lifting The Lid On WWII Secrets

09 September 2008  Chemical Warfare Left Its Legacy

17 September 2008  Marrangaroo – With Maj Cuthbertson

20 September 2008  Secrets Unmasked

22 September 2008  Chemical Bombs Near Lithgow Families

24 October 2008  Bowen’s Role In Gas Trials

26 November 2008  History Channel Films At Glenbrook 

01 December 2008  Marrangaroo – What Can Go Wrong

03 December 2008  Truth Coming Out

09 December 2008  Secret No More

24 January 2009  Cleanup For Our Wartime Secrets

06 February 2009  Alcatraz Down Under – Glenbrook Tunnel

07 February 2009  Cleansing Our Sins

09 February 2009  Coming Clean

10 February 2009  Stories Go Global

23 February 2009  Gas Bomb Scare A Fizzer

27 February 2009  No Chemical Weapons At WWII Burial Site

05 March 2009  War Yarns Led To Chemical Dig

02 April 2009  The World as it was When we Were Born

16 April 2009  A Clean Bill Of Health For Marrangaroo

19 May 2009  Top Level Scrutiny For Marrangaroo

18 July 2009  Not Moonwalkers

22 July 2009  AWM Book Review

27 August 2009  Proserpine, Gunyarra & Historical Finds

01 September 2009  Sydney – Chemical Depot & Dump Ground

05 September 2009  Hardy Souls

08 September 2009  A Job Well Done

10 September 2009  Dark Secrets Brought to Light

24 October 2009  Bunker Gas Fears Unburied

31 October 2009  Bombshell for Grader Driver

04 November 2009  Chemical Warfare Overdue Honour      

08 November 2009  Mustard Gas on Mine Site

09 November 2009  Deadly Gas Discovered

10 November 2009  Officials Duck Gas Find Questions

11 November 2009  Weapons Await UN Inspection

11 November 2009  Questions Remain on Mustard Agent Find

11 November 2009  Mustard Filled Rounds Found Mine Site

11 November 2009  Minister of Veteran Affairs Press Release

12 November 2009  UN Inspectors to Examine Munitions   

13 November 2009  Glenbrook RAAF Mustard Men Remembered

14 November 2009  Former Workers Tell Bomb History

14 November 2009  Shell Find Raises Memories

18 November 2009  Mustard Gas Men Gain Recognition

21 November 2009  Debate Over Chemical Weapons Intensifies

28 November 2009  1020 Mustard Bombs Dumped at Sea

28 November 2009  Bunker Battleground

28 November 2009  Apprentice Doubts Castle Hill Tunnels

12 December 2009  Mustard Gas Men Honoured

07 January 2010  Chemical Spill Forces Evacuation

07 January 2010  Evacuated Residents Return Home            

08 January 2010  Investigations After Chemical Scare

09 January 2010  Mustard Gas Scare

12 January 2010  Good Job In Emergency

18 January 2010  Tear Gas Grenade Set off in Unit

26 January 2010  Inch Street Residents Want Answers

27 January 2010  No Compo for Nuclear Test Veterans

25 February 2010  Told Mustard Gas Scare was the Last Straw

13 March 2010  No Mustard Gas – It was Benzene

20 March 2010  Lobbyists Heard the Outcome of the Inquiry      

March/April 2010  Mustard Gas Men Honoured at Memorial

17 April 2010  Lynne Learning Grandad WWI History

24 April 2010  Legendary Tunneller Remembered

26 April 2010  Timely ANZAC Lesson 

13 May 2010  Thanks Mustard Gas Men

21 May 2010  Heroic Action was at a Cost

01 June 2010  Long Poison Era Ended in Handshake

04 June 2010  Australia’s Security Interests

09 June 2010  Mustard Gas Shells to be Destroyed

12 June 2010  Deadly But Someone Had to Do the Job

13 July 2010  Lithgow Businesses on Notice over Pollution

29 July 2010  Australia to Impose Nuclear Sanctions on Iran

30 July 2010  Experts to Destroy Old Gas Shells

05 August 2010  Investigation Needed

11 August 2010  Humble Hero Remembers

21 August 2010  Accidental Hero

25 August 2010  Students Asked to Plan Terror Attack

30 August 2010  Evidence of Mustard Gas use in PNG

13 September 2010  Mustard Gas on Disused Military Site

13 September 2010  Mustard Gas found in WWII Shells

13 September 2010  Mustard Gas found in WWII Shells

13 September 2010  Mustard Gas found in WWII Shells

17 September 2010  Unfulfilled Farmer Found A Life In Science

29 September 2010  Kevin Rudd’ Dangerous World

17 October 2010  Chemical Munition Dump Sites in Coast  

22 November 2010  Gates Opened to Mustard Gas Site

23 November 2010  Weapon Search to Continue

January 2011  Trains Toxic Agents and Toadstools

15 February 2011  US Expertise Sought to Dispose of Mustard

22 February 2011  Heritage Listing for Glenbrook Tunnel

18 March 2011  Clean Up of WWII Mustard Gas Stash   

18 March 2011  Clean Up of Mustard Gas at Qld Property

23 March 2011  Columboola Munitions Dump 

24 March 2011  Mustard Gas Shells to be Destroyed

29 April 2011  The Military Treated Us Like Mushrooms

22 May 2011  Heritage Declaration for 88 Mile

02 June 2011  Mustard Gas Shells Destroyed

07 June 2011  Defence Minister Visits OPCW

08 June 2011  Columboola A Short Historical Overview

12 June 2011  Fear Terrorists Could Use Chemical Weapons           

July 2011  Beach Gas Scare

17 September 2011  Mustard Gas Fears Averted in Toxic Blaze

7 December 2011  World War II Plan to Poison Japanese Crops

11 February 2012  The Passing Of A Legend

11 March 2012  Richmond Store Owner Dearly Missed

20 April 2012  Chemical Cleanup 70 Years On

22 June 2012  Mustard Gas Bomb Found

30 July 2012  OPCW Director-General Visits Australia

10 February 2013  Claims up to 50 US Prisoners Died

April 2013  An Unlikely Encounter

30 August 2013  Defence Buying for Chemical Weapons Attack 

27 November 2014  Book reveals details of toxic gas trials

10 December 2014  Secrets From The Past

29 January 2015  Death By Mustard Gas Review

5 February 2015  Author Publishes His Latest Books

9 February 2015  The Unknown Story of the Gassed Stevedores

16 March 2015  Death By Mustard Gas Review ADF Journal

16 March 2015  Death By Mustard Gas Flyer

26 March 2015  Sydney’s Secret Chemical Weapon Disaster

17 April 2015  WWII Mustard Gas Dumped off Cape Moreton

17 April 2015  Calls to Test WWII Mustard Gas Dumping

17 April 2015  Minister Seeks Advice Over Chemical Weapons Site

23 April 2015  Remembrance Plaque is Unveiled at Villa Maria

30 April 2015  Mustard Gas off Cape Moreton Wont Be Tested

06 June 2015  Isis Could Develop Chemical Weapons

20 June 2015  Deadly Effect of Mustard Gas Brought to Light

30 March 2016  Glenbrook Tunnel Mushroom Farm To Close

04 August 2016  Proserpine’s Historical Museum

04 July 2017  Chemical Warfare Armourer Doug Bain’s Passing

2018  Chemical Munitions Sea Dumping off Australia

24 May 2019  Queensland Littered with WWII Bombs

08 December 2020  The Mustard Gas Men: Ross Ashley Bryan

10 January 2020  Rock engraving and the Mustard Gas program

06 March 2021  More Mustard Gas Families Speak Out

05 November 2021  Beryl Miller – Granddaughter of Mustard Gas Victim

05 November 2021  Bill Boyd – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Bill Lewis – Chemical Weapons Inspector

05 November 2021  David Luke – Mustard Gas death

05 November 2021  Frank Burkin – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Frank Moran – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Geoff Burn – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Harry Evans – Chemical Warfare Transporter (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Ivor Conway – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Jim McAllester – Head of 2/1 Aust CW Lab

05 November 2021  Jim Munroe – Chemical Weapons Inspector

05 November 2021  John Crawford – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Ken Heydon – Chemical Weapons Death

05 November 2021  Kevin Garr – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Les Johnson – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Les Parsons – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Mel Carney – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Noel Stoneman – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Phyllis Heydon – Nurse for Mustard Victims

05 November 2021  Ray Minahan – Chemical Warfare Armourer (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Ron Barker – Chemical Warfare Pilot (RAAF)

05 November 2021  Chemical Warfare Armourers (RAAF) at Glenbrook Tunnel 

05 November 2021  Stuart Glover – Chemical Weapons Transporter

05 November 2021  Unveiling of Chemical Warfare Plaque at Glenbrook RSL

24 March 2022  What are Chemical Weapons