Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: After more than a century of uncovered ore trains (inset) spreading toxic lead and other heavy and radioactive metals through Broken Hill and all along the train line to Port Pirie smelter, Jenny Rowbotham led a successful campaign to get the ore trucks covered so today you can see green trains snaking through the town between the mine waste dumps or line of lode (on the right) and nearby heavily contaminated residences.

Description of Work: iPhone8 colour photo and inset from https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/300

Artist: Elizabeth O’Brien

Lead-safety Message: Marmalade and other cooked citrus peel foods are a rich source of pectin which is a lead detox nutrient. Excellent when paired with high fibre wholemeal high-mineral seeded bread or toast.

Description of Work: iPhone photo of Lyn Bearlin’s home-made marmalade. Lead-Safety Message from: https://lead.org.au/fs/Foods_for_Lead_Detox_A-Z_20150214.pdf

Artist: Anne Roberts

Lead-safety Message: A LEAD Group Kit is a fantastic tool for detecting lead in a toddler’s environment through lab analysis of surface dust wipes from the playfloor and window sill, bare soil, water from brass taps installed in the last 3 years, from rain tanks or bores, paint, toy paint and ceiling cavity dust or vacuum dust.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils and pen on paper. Lead-Safety Message from: https://leadsafeworld.com/solutions/lead-group-diy-sampling-lab-analysis-lead-test-kits/

Artist: Benji Muthukrishna

Age: 8

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Let dolphins thrive in the moonlight, not die by stranding themselves on beaches. Heavy metal exposure like lead, mercury and cadmium, has been linked to degenerative heart disease, immunodeficiency and increased parasite infestations, among other disease risks in stranded dolphins and whales. Keep heavy metals out of stormwater and the sea!

Description of Work:  Coloured pencil drawing. Lead Safety Message from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240221160407.htm

Artist: Zoe Lu

Age: 7

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Whether they fly across the sun or the moon, over the land or the oceans, earth’s creatures all depend on us to keep their home lead-safe and avoid a climate crisis.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.

Artist: Zoe Lu

Age: 7

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: OnceEvery new year brings more global warming and climate disturbances. What are you going to do this year to avert the crisis? Move your money to a green bank, invest in super that doesn’t invest in fossil fuels, switch from gas to electricity, get solar panels, …?

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.

Artist: David Suh

Age: 10

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: If we can stop kids being lead poisoned and get the lead out of everyone, we can create a global population smart enough to avert a climate crisis. We are not yet past the point of no return.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Reference for Lead-Safety Message: The LEAD Group Inc 2023 December – LEAD Action News v21n4 – Model National Lead Safety Policy and 2023 VAP

Artist: Benji Muthukrishna

Age: 8

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Unlike in the past in China, when the industrial chelator TMT was mixed into contaminated sewage the TMT completely passivated the heavy metals so that food crop plants fertilised by the treated sewage were free of heavy metals.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper. Lead-Safety Message from www.leadtox.blog

Artist: Benji Muthukrishna

Age: 8

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Australia needs a sunset clause, meaning a legislated date to cease the use of leaded aviation fuel. A good date would be 2030 or earlier.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.

Artist: Zoe Lu

Age: 7

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Once lead-using industries like aviation fuel additive and paint manufacturers stop adding lead to their products to increase their profits, and we work out how to collect or abate all the lead contamination in children’s environments, growing up unleaded will be plain sailing.

Description of Work: Colouring pencils on paper.