File:Toxic Tasmania.pdf

Tasmania promotes itself to mainland Australia and the world as ‘clean and green’ but is this a claim that Tasmania can live up to? The article talks about contamination of water catchments, soil and air. The consequences are environmental and health risks as Tasmania has the nation’s highest cancer rates (age standardised, excluding skin cancers), the highest rates of Parkinson’s disease and asthma, and among the highest rates of diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.