June 10, 2021 - “When Mr Morrison arrives at the G7 Leaders Summit later this week he will have before him a report on Biodiversity and if he reads and understands it he will ...
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We need to lead the way
June 8, 2021 - “One of the principles as doctors is to first cause no harm, and through our own emissions we are causing harm,” says Dr John Van Der Kallen. “We need to ...
Hospital environmental sustainability: end of the beginning
May 31, 2021 - “Early in May 2021, the Victorian Government released the updated Victoria’s Climate Change Strategy. The state pledged a 45–50% carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent (CO2e) emissions reduction by 2030 and net zero emissions ...
Democratic reform is vital to address the climate and environmental crises
May 31, 2021 - "Society faces a fast moving confluence of climate change, environmental decay, and increasing zoonoses but fails to recognise the most compelling underlying problem, the crumbling ability of democratic systems to deliver any meaningful action", writes our co-founder, Dr David Shearman.
Independent Australia: Kids prepare another strike against government climate inaction
May 21, 2021 - Today, schoolchildren will again take to the streets to protest that Government policy is failing the next generation. Dr Graeme McLeay writes “to the young people coming out to demonstrate ...
Renew Economy: Australia must kick the gas habit, because it is bad for our health
May 7, 2021 - The Federal Government is continuing its push for a so-called ‘gas-led’ recovery. How could this be when the evidence of health impacts from polluting gas has hardened considerably? Read DEA ...
Roadmap to sustainable health care
May 3, 2021 - Op-ed by one of our members, Dr Eugenie Kayak.
DEA signs Open Letter from coalition of health groups to call for urgent climate action
May 3, 2021 - To read the open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, click here
An open letter to the Andrews’ Government: Less talk, more protection for nature
April 27, 2021 - Over forty state, national and international groups representing hundreds of thousands of Victorians, call on the Andrews’ Government to accept recommendations for new national parks in Victoria’s central west.
DEA signs open letter calling on the Andrews Government to scrap proposed EV tax
April 23, 2021 - We've signed an open letter calling on the government to scrap this proposal.
Not fit for purpose: Australia needs independent Climate Change Authority
April 20, 2021 - By DEA member Graeme McLeay.
DEA welcomes HCWH’s global road map for zero emissions in healthcare
April 16, 2021 - Doctors for the Environment Australia welcomes the launch of Healthcare Without Harm’s global road map for healthcare decarbonisation. The report highlights how “all countries’ health systems will need to reach ...
A fossil fuel frenzy is drinking Australia’s finite water resources
April 14, 2021 - The Productivity Commission has produced a 232 page Draft Report on the functioning of the 2004 National Water Initiative (NWI), writes Professor David Shearman.
The importance of environmental water: is the national water initiative up to the job?
April 14, 2021 - Op-ed by our co-founder, Professor David Shearman.
Too hot, heading south: how climate change may drive one-third of doctors out of the NT
April 13, 2021 - A study by DEA member Simon Quilty has found that a sizeable chunk of Northern Territory’s doctors are thinking about leaving the territory because of climate change.
New Podcast Episode: Climate Change and Sport in Australia
April 13, 2021 - In this episode of the Doctors for the Environment podcast, join Beau as he talks with Martin about the impact of climate change on sport in Australia and the role that sport has to play in tackling climate change.
Overhaul water policy development, for the sake of our health
April 12, 2021 - Health and medical expertise should be much more involved in the development of water policy, given its critical importance for health and wellbeing, according to Professor David Shearman, co-founder of Doctors for the Environment Australia.
Fire and flood: ‘Whole areas of Australia will be uninsurable’
April 8, 2021 - Dr Kim Loo, chair of the New South Wales chapter of Doctors for the Environment, has lived and worked in western Sydney her whole life. Over the years she has watched the market gardens once run by Maltese families out on the flood plain give way to new housing as developers have paved over the open ground.
How droughts and flooding rains affect Australians’ mental health
April 7, 2021 - Op-ed by DEA member Dr Robert Llewellyn-Jones.
SMH: Turnbull calls for halt on new coal mines, inquiry on rehabilitation funds
March 31, 2021 - Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on the Berejiklian government to pause the approval of new coal mines in NSW, saying the industry is already in decline and some ...