September 28, 2020 - Several doctors speak powerfully about their lived experiences of the summer’s horror bushfires–both from a personal perspective and also professionally. For Drs Kim Loo, Michelle Hamrosi and Trudi Beck, the ...
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The Mercury Talking Point: Support your kids in climate strike today
September 25, 2020 - The health of the planet and human health are intimately linked and putting public money into climate-wrecking fossil fuels such as gas is one road map we don’t want to ...
New report reveals the health costs of coal-fired power stations
September 16, 2020 - Australia’s power stations are located near regional towns such as Morwell, Victoria, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, and Gladstone, Queensland, or in rural areas well away from cities, writes Dr Ben ...
The Driven: Electric buses and trains are the answer, not more cars
September 9, 2020 - COVID-19 has infected and killed over 500 people in Australia and impacted thousands more. Dr Graeme McLeay and A/Prof Vicki Kotsirilos AM state that there is, however, another silent and ...
Canberra Times: Coronavirus: Doctors urge government to lock-in COVID-19 emission reductions
September 2, 2020 - As emissions plunge to their lowest levels in 30 years as a result of COVID-19, and the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reductions Angus Taylor pushes for the Clean Energy ...
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 ...
Eco anxiety as the earth continues to heat
August 6, 2020 - Dr Lucy Watt writes “I am an “eco-worrier”. I worry about the environmental nightmare that climate change has in store for us, our children and their children.” While reading the ...
Newcastle Herald: Clean air should be a right not a dirty secret
July 27, 2020 - The summer’s bushfires blanketed Australia’s east coast with thick smoke, writes Dr Bob Vickers. But even when we don’t have bushfires, Australians are still being exposed to harmful air pollution ...
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 ...
Canberra Times: Climate change is the next health crisis we face
July 8, 2020 - Covid-19 has its challenges, especially in Victoria at the moment. Dr Beau Frigault writes that generally, though, Australia relative to other parts of the world has managed the pandemic well. ...
Independent Australia: The madness of a gas-led recovery and what you can do about it
June 29, 2020 - Australia is particularly vulnerable to some of the worst impacts of climate change with extreme heat, drought, drying rivers, coastal erosion and changing patterns of disease– threatening health, livelihoods and ...
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 ...
Open Forum: When our love of place gets swallowed by bushfires
June 24, 2020 - Like many Australians, this summer’s horrific fires had a profound impact on Dr Dimity Williams. Not only did she experience angst about the fires in Victoria burning her ‘happy place’ ...
#BLM: The Black Lives Matter movement
June 18, 2020 - The fundamental objective of Doctors for the Environment Australia is to protect and enhance health by protecting the environment. There are other social determinants of health and racial discrimination, dispossession, ...
Insightplus: COVID-19 and beyond- impact of air pollution
June 15, 2020 - Air pollution is a known risk factor for a number of diseases and is associated with increased risk of mortality and chronic diseases and hospitalisations even from exposure at low ...
Canberra Times: Now is not the time to weaken our environmental protections
June 10, 2020 - Australia’s environmental track record is among the worst of all countries, write A/Professor Katherine Barraclough, Victorian Chair of DEA, and Fiona Armstrong, Executive Director of the Climate and Health Alliance. ...
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 ...
Canberra Times: Fossil fuel projects are not the way out
May 11, 2020 - Relying on fossil fuel projects to help with a COVID-19 recovery is like planning to recover from a heart attack by adopting a deep-fried diet, or treating diabetes with mountains ...
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 ...