About Us
The National Toxics Network (NTN) is a community based network working to ensure a toxic-free future for all. NTN was formed in 1993 and has grown as a national network giving a voice to community and environmental organisations across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
NTN is the Australian focal point for the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) and works towards the full implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)2001 and other global chemical conventions. NTN is a member of the NGO delegation to the POPs Review Committee which is the UN scientific committee assessing new POPs’ nominations.
NTN represented Australian and global NGOs at the OECD Chemical Joint Meetingsand was actively involved in the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS), providing an Australian focal point for their INFOCAP information and capacity building program. NTN participates in the Strategic Approach to International Chemical Management and is part of the NGO delegation to the negotiations for a Mercury treaty.
NTN support communities involved in hazardous waste management, pesticides and environmental health issues. Our committee members are involved in a range of national advisory bodies including the Hazardous Waste Reference Group, the Stockholm Stakeholders Reference Group, the National Industrial Chemicals Notification Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) Community Engagement Forum and Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority committees. We also participate in related technical advisory panels.
NTN Commitee
National Coordinator: Jo Immig (NSW)
Assis.Coordinator/Senior Advisor: Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith (NSW)
Public Officer: Julia Pitts (ACT)
Secretary: Jane Bremmer (WA)
Treasurer: The Hon. Richard Jones (NSW)
Committee Members:
Dr Alison Bleaney OBE (TAS)
John Wickens (NSW)
Imogen Ingram (Cook Is.)
Elizabeth O’Brien (NSW)
Dorothy Bowes (QLD)
Don Want (NSW)
Lee Bell (WA)
Ellen White (NSW)
Dr Bro Sheffield Brotherton (VIC)
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Jun 15, 2012 @ 10:44:15
Congratulations on a fantastic website of information and thankyou for your activism for a toxic free future for my children and grandchildren. I would also ask that you look into stopping the deliberate dumping of toxic industrial waste from the fertiliser industry, FSA-fluorosilicic acid deceivingly being called FLUORIDE into our children drinking water. When I was mixing the baby formula I calculated that my grandchild is being OVERDOSED with this mind altering toxin. We use filtered water for our drinking water, but we cant avoid bathing in it.
Please consider the future generations and the amount of mental illness we will be faced with if this toxin isnt removed from our drinking water. Please keep up the great work !!!!
Oct 02, 2012 @ 11:02:42
Thanks Anna – we have done some work on fluoride but as there are so many other groups working on it we feel it’s best if we put our efforts in other places where we are the only ones working on it. Many water filters don’t take out fluoride so I hope yours is one that does.
Nov 13, 2012 @ 14:39:31
We urgently need assistance to prevent Sita installing a huge landfill and incinerator site in prime agricultural land/catchment area in St Ronans, west of York. I have noted your comments in relation to the toxic spill from the Cardup site and submit that the 3500 acre site being actively pursued is the possibly a more highly sensitive site with it being the source of huge amounts of fresh groundwater which is supplied to the Perth Hills and other areas – to say nothing of the contamination risk to all nearby farming properties with acid rain contaminating our drinking and stock water and toxic emission from the chemical burns.
Dec 10, 2012 @ 10:36:44
Hello
Apologies for the delay, Please email info@ntn.org.au to communicate with us. Thank you.