March 2, 2020 - After two decades of refusal to acknowledge the science of climate change, change, it has taken a national bushfire tragedy for policy-makers to wake-up, writes Dr John Iser From climate change ...
Opinion Pieces
Open Forum: Blue-banded bliss
March 2, 2020 - Dr Marion Carey writes that with an estimated 40% of insect species now threatened with extinction, we can all do more to notice and appreciate our wonderful native bees and ...
Letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison: “the leader who failed to lead on Climate Change.”
January 21, 2020 - To Scott Morrison, like everyone else in Australia, and increasingly around the world, I have spent the past couple of months in horrified disbelief at the scale of the bushfire ...
Newcastle Herald: Michael Schien writes, the real threat to national security is the way our system makes rational planning virtually impossible
January 17, 2020 - The climate emergency has arrived, writes Dr Michael Schien. With the first degree of the predicted four degrees of warming by 2100, this 11,000 kilometre fire front is stretching our ...
AusDoc: As Australia burns, where is our plan?
January 10, 2020 - As the fires continue to burn across eastern Australia, DEA’s Honorary Secretary Dr Richard Yin and DEA member Dr George Crisp, write the full scale of the health impacts and ...
Medical Republic: Australia’s doctors raise their voices on climate change
December 4, 2019 - With the early start to our bushfire season, widespread fires burning across the country with tragic loss of life and property, and a number of areas breaking November heat records, ...
Response to Alexander Downer: how much are we prepared to pay for our children’s future?
November 27, 2019 - Alexander Downer, a former leader of the Liberal Party , Minister for Foreign Affairs and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, wrote in the Australian Financial Review last Monday (18 ...
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 ...
Independent Australia: Australia’s energy policies are doctors’ business
October 28, 2019 - It is extraordinary that Energy Minister Angus Taylor continues to cling to a fossil fuel past at a time when Australia’s emissions are still rising and the urgency required for ...
Letter to the Editor: Media must let the truth prevail
October 25, 2019 - Is there no end to the contention by climate change sceptics, who report in The Australian, that action is useless and that adaptation will see us through? asks Dr John ...
The Canberra Times: Populate and perish; the fleeting hope of a population policy
October 14, 2019 - The Launch of the new Centre for Population raised a flicker of hope of a remit to develop a population policy for Australia – but the hope was fleeting, writes ...
Newcastle Herald: Emotional toll of mining brought to surface
October 14, 2019 - The effects of coal mining are not only physical, they’re also emotional, writes Dr Bob Vickers. In the Hunter Valley, thermal coal mining is creating an adversarial culture in coal ...
Independent Australia: Morrison’s condescending response to kids and climate
September 30, 2019 - Climate change is difficult to ignore when medical authorities declare a climate health emergency, defence experts are concerned, insurance and business are sounding the alarm bells and children and their ...
Croakey: On an historic day for the #SchoolStrike, climate justice must be central
September 23, 2019 - Dr Ingo Weber, the lead organiser of DEA’s campaign No Time For Games, explains why doctors joined the global climate strike on 20 September which saw more than 300,000 Australians ...
Opinion: The right side of history? Labor’s noble climate talk lost in coal smoke
August 30, 2019 - Labor is all over the shop on climate change. This week its national president, Wayne Swan, is preaching that the party must stay on “the right side of history” and ...
Sydney Morning Herald: The right side of history? Labor’s noble climate talk lost in coal smoke
August 30, 2019 - Labor is all over the shop on climate change, writes Dr David Shearman. Labor’s national president, Wayne Swan, is preaching that the party must stay on “the right side of ...
Muswellbrook Chronicle: Singleton Dr Bob Vickers, and member of Doctors for the Environment Australia, weighs in on recent Dartbrook coal mine decision
August 23, 2019 - THE NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) recently decided on the Dartbrook underground coal mine, writes Dr Bob Vickers. In its decision, they approved the mine to continue operations until 2022, ...
Canberra Times: Faunal extinction is a huge part of the climate emergency
August 21, 2019 - A normal week, another loss of koala habitat for new housing estates, of forest to provide jobs in the logging industry, of land clearance for gas development and agriculture. As ...
(Unpublished) Letter to the Editor – The Australian
August 19, 2019 - “It is about time that Chris Kenny was pilloried for distorting the truth on renewable energy (The Australian August 12),” Dr John Iser wrote in a Letter to the Editor ...
Renew Economy: The other road toll we can no longer ignore
August 16, 2019 - We are confronted daily in the media with the deadly results of crashes on our roads and the tragedy that befalls those involved, writes Dr Graeme McLeay. Seat belts, improved ...