This article reads media coverage of the May 2006 Beaconsfield Gold Mine rescue through the lens of disability. It argues that disability is essential to the way discourses of heroism, masculinity and nationalism were constructed in the rescue of the miners. However, the importance of disability to this, and other aspects of media, politics and society in Australia, was not well recognised — yet raises important questions.
In the course of research on Mine Rescue Apparatus under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research it was found necessary to investigate the conditions of utilisation of solid caustic soda for absorbing carbon dioxide, and particularly the effects of variations of temperature and water vapour upon the reaction.
Self-Contained Mine Rescue Apparatus
