September 22, 2023 - Heatwaves have already begun in southern Australia this spring, and more are predicted over the summer months on the back of an El Nino declaration and worsening climate change. Dr ...
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Medical sector calls for urgent action on climate change and investment in healthcare sustainability
September 22, 2023 - The Australian Medical Association and Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) are calling on federal, state and territory governments and the wider healthcare sector to take urgent action against climate ...
Media release: Health workers and consumers tell NSW Government “don’t make us cough up for Eraring”
September 11, 2023 - Health workers are calling on the NSW Government to stick to the Eraring coal power station’s current closure date for the sake of the community’s health. Ten health organisations, representing ...
Guardian: Fracking projects in NT risk exposing people to cancer and birth defects, report finds
September 6, 2023 - DEA National Chair Dr John Van Der Kallen has welcomed a comprehensive report, based on a review of over 300 peer-reviewed studies, that demonstrates the health risks of fracking projects. ...
Croakey: As Australia braces for summer, health sector urged to take strong stand against governments’ support for fossil fuels
September 5, 2023 - Global heating requires our urgent attention, writes Dr Richard Yin. Like COVID, this is a public health emergency, and the signs are everywhere that the threat is escalating, exactly as ...
The Project: Experts warn Australia won’t cope with increasing heat
August 4, 2023 - DEA’s Executive Director Dr Kate Wylie was on The Project, talking about climate change and extreme weather, such as the deadly heat we’ve been seeing across the Northern Hemisphere. “If ...
The Canberra Times: What will Europe’s heat mean for us here in Australia?
July 28, 2023 - I’m concerned about what the implications of climate change will inevitably be for us, here in Australia, – especially over the coming summer, writes Kimberly Humphrey. As an emergency medicine ...
The Medical Republic: Doctors speak out against fracking in Beetaloo Basin
July 7, 2023 - Doctors are concerned about the impacts of fracking on their patients’ health, the environment and climate, and are urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to respond to NT’s decision to frack ...
Croakey: Health professionals urged to join fight against harmful developments in the Northern Territory
June 23, 2023 - DEA’s Dr Richard Yin and Dr Katherine Barraclough urge doctors, medical students and other health professionals from around the country to support the open letter calling on the Prime Minister ...
MEDIA ALERT: Doctors talk health and the environment at NSW Parliament
June 19, 2023 - Monday, June 19, 2023 What: Doctors for the Environment Australia will host its Healthy State, Healthy People forum for NSW MPs When: Tuesday, June 20. 5pm for a 5.30pm start Where: Jubilee Room, NSW Parliament ...
MJAInsight+: Embedding sustainability in health care – our wellbeing depends on it
June 5, 2023 - The health sector, whose role is to protect public health, must be front and centre in the battle against climate change, write Dr Eugenie Kayak and Dr Ben Dunne. Australia’s ...
DEA welcomes Victoria’s ambitious targets to net-zero emissions by 2045
June 5, 2023 - Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) welcomes the Victorian Government’s emission reduction targets of 75-80% by 2035 and a net zero target by 2045 (brought forward from 2050). DEA has ...
ABC: Scientists say WA government’s prescribed burns targets have no scientific basis
May 31, 2023 - Scientists, Indigenous leaders, and medical experts, including neurologist and DEA member, Dr Carolyn Orr, have called for change to the WA government’s fire management practices, raising concerns about the harms ...
Media release: Victorian Government’s end to native forest logging is a win for the environment and for health
May 26, 2023 - Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) welcomes the Victorian Government’s decision to end native forest logging by January next year- six years ahead of schedule. Victorian DEA Chair Dr ...
MJAInsight: Doctors must ‘step up’ to confront climate crisis
May 1, 2023 - When the Australian Parliament recently passed the Safeguard Mechanism- the country’s most significant carbon emissions reduction legislation in over a decade- where was the health voice in the debate? DEA’s ...
AMA and DEA sign crucial partnership to lead action on climate change
April 28, 2023 - Doctors for the Environment Australia is thrilled to renew its partnership with the AMA to address the severe health impacts of climate change. Today, AMA President Prof Steve Robson and ...
MJA: Why losing Australia’s biodiversity matters for human health- insights from the latest State of the Environment assessment
April 17, 2023 - Only with a healthy planet can we ensure healthy people. Yet while there is increasing understanding about the effects of climate change on our environment and our health, much less ...
Pearls & Irritations: Do universities with medical schools fail on fossil fuels?
March 29, 2023 - Universities have expertise in research and teaching in areas that are relevant to understanding global warming: geology, physics, mathematics, biology, oceanography, engineering, and atmospheric physics. Furthermore, those universities with medical ...
DEA’s response to the IPCC report
March 22, 2023 - The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report highlights the narrow window of opportunity that we now have for humanity to secure a liveable future, with deep emission cuts ...
‘Difference between life and death’: Doctors sound alarm on western Sydney’s lack of trees
March 6, 2023 - A group of doctors has issued a dire health warning about the lack of trees Western Sydney reports 9News. Doctors for the Environment Australia member Dr Cybele Dey said “People ...