KLASSIC KWOTES FROM KWINANA
Most Westralians will be aware that Kwinana is the ringside seat for the state!|s concentration of heavy industry and associated emissions. Sure, they bear the brunt of prevailing WSW wind carrying highly questionable air content, but all residents in the southern Perth metro area should support KPA!|s constant call for regulation enforcement.
Those big stacks in Kwinana only serve to disperse the fumes over the top of Kwinana town and further afield.
The never-ending battle between the Kwinana Progress Association (KPA) and the WA Department of Health (DOH) turns up some incredible material to demonstrate a department in denial. A troubling fact in itself, but they spend our money on trying to foist their twisted contrary reality onto the rest of us. Check this out:

CLASSIC QUOTES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH WA (DOH) ON KWINANA REGIONS HEALTH PROBLEMS!

Compiled by Steve Hesse
Kwinana Progress Association - KPA

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The incidence of cancer in Rockingham and Mandurah was higher than average but this was to be expected in an area with a big component of retirees."
- Michael Jackson to West Australian January 2002

?The department conceded that the figures had been age-adjusted?.
- West Australian March 2002
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?Kwinana industrial strip not a factor, says Health Department. People living in Kwinana, Rockingham and Mandurah are getting more cancers than the general community, according to Health Department statistics but the department says pollution from the Kwinana industrial strip is not a contributing factor. And it will not release data from its cancer registry, which shows the geographical distribution of cancer victims; because it claims the information may be misinterpreted?.
- West Australian Wednesday March 4 2002

How did the DOH know this back in 2002 when they still don?t know now?
? Steve Hesse KPA

?The Department agreed to release the statistics after the West Australian promised to publish the department?s interpretation of the results?
- West Australian March 6 2002
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?There is not an excess of cancer in Kwinana?
- M. Smith DOH at the CIF in Rockingham August 2004

?According to the cancer registry there is no excess of cancer in Kwinana?
-Tim Threlfall DOH commenting at the Kwinana
environmental health forum November 2004.

"The DOH survey report found a 10% higher reported level of cancer in the Town of Kwinana"
- West Australian Friday 29th October 2004

Dr. Keith Woollard and the KPA have been saying for 21/2 years that there is at least a 10% excess of cancer in Kwinana.
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"The department?s population health executive director Michael Jackson said the higher results were not considered to be related to industry"
- West Australian Friday 29th November 2004

"The major aim of the study was to identify any health problems around the Kwinana Industrial Strip that were atypical of the state in general, and then to explain the differences if possible. However it is not possible to identify the underlying causes of symptoms or health conditions from a survey of this kind".
- DOH Report Health Survey of Cockburn, Kwinana
and Rockingham - Introduction page 1.
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"As far as concerns about chemical exposure is concerned this study should reassure a lot of people because it's very hard to argue against science, and in this case this is based on reports from residents themselves"
- Michael Jackson DOH
West Australian Friday 29th October 2004

"The major aim of the study was to identify any health problems around the Kwinana Industrial Strip that were atypical of the state in general, and then to explain the differences if possible. However it is not possible to identify the underlying causes of symptoms or health conditions from a survey of this kind".
- DOH Report Health Survey of Cockburn, Kwinana
and Rockingham - Introduction page 1.
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"The only trend identified in Kwinana is an 87% higher rate of lung cancers among women which health authorities say is likely to be linked to smoking".
- West Australian Tuesday 5th October 2004

?The higher reported rates of lung cancer in Women is because of higher smoking rates of females in Kwinana?
- DOH at KEHF October 28 2004

"A significantly increased likelihood of reporting doctor-diagnosed cancer (which includes all kinds of cancer, including skin cancer) was associated with living in Kwinana".
- DOH Report Health Survey of Cockburn, Kwinana
and Rockingham - conclusions page 45 paragraph 4.

"The rate of smoking in females in Kwinana is significantly higher (26.9%) compared with females in the state (16.9%)?
- DOH Report Health Survey of Cockburn, Kwinana
and Rockingham - page 6 paragraph 4.

10% more females in Kwinana smoke yet 87% excess of lung cancer!!! The DOH are not even considering that factors other than smoking such as pollution/chemical exposure, can cause lung cancer and skin cancer.
? Steve Hesse KPA