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 ...
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DEA Newsletter – July 2020
July 1, 2020 - [administrator notice: content below memberonly ] Click the link below to view the July 2020 edition of our newsletter.
DEA doctors innovating and protecting health during the COVID 19 pandemic
April 11, 2020 - DEA doctors across the nation from a wide range of specialities are experiencing fundamental changes and challenges in their work practices and expectations. GPs are screening and consulting patients in ...
RiotAct: Community support is the way to beat distressing times, says Canberra doctor
March 20, 2020 - There are clear parallels with society’s response to the summer’s bushfires and the coronavirus outbreak–and as a community, we must work together, says Dr Arnagretta Hunter. “One of my best ...
iNews: Australian doctor on ‘nerve-wracking’ wildfires and climate crisis: ‘You can taste it and I make sure my children stay indoors’
January 29, 2020 - Canberra Cardiologist, Dr Arnagretta Hunter, provides an insight into how the fires are impacting both her personal and professional worlds. From waiting for her family and friends and driving through ...
New Daily: Burning anxiety–The new normal isn’t just the fire, it’s the fear
January 13, 2020 - Speaking to The New Daily, psychiatrist Dr Robert Llewellyn-Jones and Honorary Secretary Dr Richard Yin highlight that climate change impacts such as Australia’s unprecedented fires not only have direct physical ...
Hot and bothered: heat affects all of us, but older people face the highest health risks
January 8, 2020 - Australia’s climate is changing, writes DEA’s ACT Chair Dr Arnagretta Hunter in The Conversation, and we’re likely to experience longer periods of hot temperatures, with hotter summers and some extraordinarily ...
Libération: Australie “La fumée s’est infiltrée partout, dans les maisons, les bureaux et même à l’hôpital”
December 27, 2019 - French daily newspaper, Libération, interviewed DEA’s co-chair Dr Eugenie Kayak about the health impacts of the hazardous smoke pollution in Sydney from the NSW bushfires, which have for weeks ravaged ...
ABC’s World Today: Heatwave to hit record temperatures across Australia
December 18, 2019 - As Australians this week brace for a nationwide heatwave which could see temperatures approach 50 degrees in some areas, Dr Arnagretta Hunter says that while people have lived with such high ...
‘Horrified’ doctors call for direct action on bushfire health threat
December 12, 2019 - Doctors for the Environment Australia is horrified by the reaction of the Morrison government to the unprecedented public health threat from the hazardous air pollution in Sydney and surrounds which ...
Shadow Minister for Health: climate change must be a National Health Priority Area
November 20, 2019 - Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) welcomes the statements made by Shadow Minister for Health Chris Bowen that Australia needs to develop policies and structures to prepare for the health ...
DEA welcomes Denise Cauchi OAM as Executive Director
November 20, 2019 - We are thrilled to announce that Denise Cauchi OAM has commenced this week as Executive Director for DEA. Denise brings to the position significant experience in the governance, management and ...
Medical Forum bumper issue on doctors as climate change champions
November 4, 2019 - From letters to the editor to feature articles about doctors stepping out to join the School Strike for Climate, this month’s edition of Medical Forum shows DEA’s WA members are ...
The Armidale Express: Armidale GP Dr Sujata Allan explains why climate change is the century’s greatest health challenge
October 23, 2019 - Dr Sujata Allan says that in her practice, she has already seen the toll a warming planet has taken on her patients. She states there is widespread concern about global ...
The Guardian: Australian power stations among world’s worst for toxic air pollution
August 19, 2019 - Dr Ben Ewald told the Guardian that there were places in Australia that had a serious SO2 (sulphur dioxide) problem and limits were set well above what was needed to protect human ...
An Australian Healthcare Sustainability Unit (HSU) – DEA Proposal
January 10, 2019 - A Healthcare Sustainability Unit (HSU) would assist the Australian health care system (primary, secondary and tertiary) to deliver quality health care in environmentally and financially sustainable ways. A HSU could ...
Proposed changes to timber harvesting in NSW’s coastal forests (July 2018)
July 16, 2018 - Former Premier of NSW Bob Carr is dismayed by Berejiklian’s environmental vandalism. In this submission DEA details just one aspect of this destruction – forest clearance. See below for the DEA submission to ...
Interim Emissions Reduction Targets for Victoria
May 8, 2018 - DEA is concerned by the outlook for human and planetary health of inadequate control of global warming and climate change. In a submission to the Victorian government on emissions reduction ...