March 31, 2021 - Doctors welcome the Victorian Government’s decision to reject AGL’s proposal to build a 300-metre floating gas import terminal at Westernport Bay, describing it as a major win for public health. ...
Media Releases
Media release: The health toll of NSW coal expansion plans
March 31, 2021 - Doctors for the Environment Australia warns any plans to expand coal mining in the Hunter Valley and other parts of NSW, as highlighted by new research, will have serious repercussions for ...
AMA and DEA Make Joint Call for Emissions Reduction in Healthcare
March 17, 2021 - Climate change is a health emergency, which is already contributing to life-threatening illness and deaths and the Australian healthcare sector is part of the problem – contributing about 7 per cent to Australia’s national carbon emission footprint.
Media release: DEA welcomes the WA Climate and Health Inquiry
December 7, 2020 - DEA welcomes the WA Climate and Health Inquiry the first statutory inquiry in the world focused on the health impacts of climate change. WA DEA Chair Dr Emma-Leigh Synnott says that ...
Media Release: Launch of 2020 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
December 2, 2020 - In response to the 2020 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change which has revealed the most concerning trends in climate change impacts to date, DEA is ...
Doctors: Set emissions targets to zero as quickly as possible to address dangerous climate change
November 13, 2020 - Doctors are urging all state and federal governments to set emissions targets to zero as quickly as possible to address dangerous climate change. Medical group Doctors for the Environment Australia is responding to the ...
DEA applauds the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap
November 9, 2020 - Doctors for the Environment Australia has welcomed the NSW Government’s electricity infrastructure roadmap for the orderly switch of NSW’s energy supply from coal to renewable energy sources. The burning of ...
DEA and AMA partner on climate
October 26, 2020 - Read our media release here.
2020 Federal Budget: Vales Point should be given pollution fees not grants
October 8, 2020 - Inclusion of a grant in the federal budget for Vales Point power station is an outrageous misuse of public funds, says Doctors for the Environment Australia’s spokesperson Dr Ben Ewald. ...
Doctors call on the Australian health sector to follow NHS England’s commitment to a net-zero target
October 2, 2020 - Doctors for the Environment Australia commends England’s National Health Service (NHS) commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040, and calls on the Australian health sector to likewise commit ...
Narrabri decision ignores the health risks, doctors warn
September 30, 2020 - The approval of the Narrabri gas project has failed to adequately consider the health risks and it should have been rejected, according to medical doctors. Dr John Van Der Kallen, NSW Co-Chair ...
Doctors’ group warns weakening Australia’s nature laws will harm health
August 31, 2020 - As the EPBC debate is expected to resume in Federal Parliament as early as tomorrow, a prominent medical group warns an attempt by the Scott Morrison Government to rush legislation ...
Media release: Australia’s peak medical groups unite for a climate-focussed healthy recovery from COVID-19
August 11, 2020 - Joint letter from DEA, AMA, RACGP, RACP, ACEM, RANZCP, RANZCOG, ACRRM, CICM, and AMSA to Prime Minister Scott Morrison Australia’s peak medical groups, representing around 90,000 or 75% of the nation’s ...
Media release: doctors’ group warns against proposed gas facility in Geelong
July 13, 2020 - Doctors have described Viva Energy’s proposed gas import and storage facility in North Geelong as a folly, warning that it poses risks to the local environment and to the health ...
Media release: #TurnOffTheGas and sign the petition for a healthier and cleaner Australia
June 24, 2020 - Health experts, including GPs and medical specialists, are today launching a video message warning that a gas-led pandemic economic recovery would be hazardous to health and cost lives. The call by ...
Media release: Open Letter- prominent health leaders and groups warn ‘failing’ nature laws will lead to further public health crises
May 25, 2020 - Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty and former Australian of the Year Professor Fiona Stanley are among more than 180 health professionals and leading health groups who have signed an open ...
Media release: Home gas appliances can have lethal consequences, doctors warn
May 4, 2020 - As winter temperatures set in and Victorians reach for the heating dial, doctors have warned that home gas appliances can cause health problems, including carbon monoxide poisoning, for residents. Doctors ...
Media release: Doctors alarmed by the jump in air pollution from power stations call for action
April 6, 2020 - New figures showing worsening sulphur dioxide air pollution from three NSW coal-fired power stations must be met with tighter license conditions on power plants to reduce the significant risks to ...
DEA responds to the Federal Opposition’s target of zero net carbon emissions by 2050
February 26, 2020 - The commitment by the ALP to a target of zero net carbon emissions by 2050 is a welcome sign that Australia may eventually join 73 other countries in doing so, ...
Media release: Doctors warn extending the life of Vales Point coal-fired power station will have a human cost, from Lake Macquarie to Sydney
February 18, 2020 - Doctors have today slammed the Morrison government’s proposed $11m grant to Vales Point coal-fired power station, as the money to prolong the life of this ageing coal fired-power station is ...