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 ...
News & Media
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A New Year’s Message from DEA’s Co-chairs
January 6, 2020 - The dawn of the New Year and new decade in a very favoured country ought to be greeted with positive anticipation and firm new resolutions. Yet our thoughts are with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 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 ...