September 20, 2023 - DEA’s work is based on the premise that humans need a future with clean air and water, healthy soils capable of producing nutritious food, a stable climate, and a complex, ...
Submissions
Every day we are lobbying government and industry to protect health through care of the environment.
Below is some of our current advocacy work.
Victoria’s Bushfire Management Strategy
August 28, 2023 - DEA supports the implementation of adequate air quality monitoring, to protect the communities in regional areas who are most vulnerable to smoke from planned burns and bushfires, so that they ...
National Health and Climate Strategy
August 1, 2023 - Doctors for the Environment Australia(DEA) is a strong advocate for the development of a National Climate and Health Strategy and welcomed the opportunity to respond to the proposed objectives and ...
Managing noxious emissions from non-road diesel engines
July 26, 2023 - Doctors for the Environment Australia has responded to the the draft impact analysis of managing noxious emissions from non-road diesel engines. As there is no safe level of exposure to ...
Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023
July 7, 2023 - DEA is opposed to the proposed Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using NewTechnologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023 (the Bill). The Bill through ss19(7b) effectively sanctions and makes possible ...
Setting, measuring and achieving Australia’s emissions reduction targets
July 7, 2023 - Prepared by DEA members, Drs Genevieve Cowie, Vicki Kotsirilos, Graeme McLeay and Ben Ewald, our submission largely addresses health concerns associated with Australia’s emissions reduction and climate change. The two ...
Measuring what matters
May 31, 2023 - DEA welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Measuring what matters second consultation process. The proposed indicators show a welcome move away from narrow economic indicators such as GDP that ...
Nature Repair Market bill submission
May 31, 2023 - Doctors for the Environment welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Nature Repair Market bill which has important implications for the health and wellbeing of Australians, both now ...
Vehicle fuel efficiency standards for Australia
May 31, 2023 - Doctors for the Environment Australia applaud the proposal to introduce a Fuel Efficiency Standard and note that Australia’s vehicle standards are significantly behind every other developed country apart from Russia. ...
Safeguard Mechanism reform: submission on proposed design
February 23, 2023 - The Safeguard Mechanism is one of the few levers government has to reduce industrial emissions. It covers the 215 biggest emitters in Australia (not including the electricity sector) which release ...
Singleton Horticulture Project submission
February 20, 2023 - While we await the finding of the Supreme Court into the legality of the water licence, we have here outlined a range of other critical environmental, social and health issues ...
AMA and DEA joint submission to the ACSQHC –Sustainable Healthcare Module
February 14, 2023 - The AMA and DEA recommend that the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality of Health Care (ACSQHC) consult with the Department of Health and Aged Care’s National Health Sustainability and ...
Public Consultation on the draft Climate Change Policy and draft Action Plan 2022-2025
November 22, 2022 - DEA welcomes the development of new climate change environmental quality objectives, guidelines, and policy by the NSW EPA, in recognition of its duty under the POEA act. We would like ...
Submission to the Consultation Paper on Native Forest Wood Waste in the Renewable Energy Target
October 10, 2022 - Because of the serious environmental consequences of burning native forest biomass for electricity generation, no case can be made for its continuation.Importantly, the burning of native forest biomass adds to ...
North West Shelf Project Extension Appeal
July 8, 2022 - The EPA has recommended that the project be approved. Doctors for the Environment Australia disagrees. The EPA has not applied conditions that are its best endeavours, nor fully considered the ...
Submission to the public exhibition of the NSW Design and Place SEPP, and the Apartment Design Guide Feb 2022
March 3, 2022 - Doctors for the Environment Australia recently welcomed the opportunity to provide a submission to the NSW government on the health aspects of a revision of a State Environmental Planning Policy ...
Northern Territory Environmental Protection Authority (NTEPA)for Santos’ proposed Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project
February 23, 2022 - NT DEA Chair Brooke Ah Shay states ” This project will generate significant greenhouse gas emissions, have significant negative environmental impacts on Darwin Harbour, and the Middle Arm LNG processing ...
Submission to the Low Emissions Technology Statement 2022
February 6, 2022 - There is much of positive value in the roadmap, including ultra-low cost solar, low emissions steel, aluminium, and potentially cement, charging infrastructure for electrified transport, and reducing livestock emissions. However, ...
Pre Budget-Submission
January 6, 2022 - Measures to protect future health must be considered alongside the ongoing acceptance of medical and scientific expertise which leads the response to the COVID19 pandemic. The level of scientific expertise ...
Vales Point Power Station: oppose the granting of a licence exemption.
November 9, 2021 - Doctors for the Environment Australia are concerned by the extremely generous license conditions allowing NSW power stations to pollute at much higher levels than similar facilities overseas Drs Ben Ewald ...