Media releases

Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) has won a Federal Court order that enables it to challenge NOPSEMA’s approval of the Scarborough Gas Project’s environment plan (EP).

As Australians used their vote to call for a safer climate, a new report out today from medical group Doctors for the Environment Australia shows the serious and wide-reaching impacts climate change is having...

Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) has launched proceedings in the Federal Court seeking a judicial review of NOPSEMA’s approval of the Production Environment Plan (EP) for Woodside’s Scarborough gas project.

CANBERRA WEDNESDAY 30 April, 2025 - Organisations representing over 350,000 emergency services workers have today called on Peter Dutton and the Coalition to drop their nuclear energy plan.

Dear Candidates, As doctors and humanitarian workers, we see how climate change affects people's health in Australia and globally—and we know it’s getting worse. Australians have faced devastating bushfires, deadly heatwaves, and catastrophic floods....

At a public forum with candidates for the federal seat of Curtin today, Western Australian health professionals will urge politicians to put the health of Western Australians first in the lead up to the...

Doctors have organised a billboard on Stirling Highway in Claremont, showing a woman taking a drag from a ‘smoke stack’ to highlight that burning fossil fuels causes more deaths than tobacco. The group of...

In one of the final sitting days of 2024, Doctors for the Environment Australia’s Executive Director and GP, Dr Kate Wylie, will be speaking at Rising Tide’s The Canberra Wave against coal and gas.Other...

Doctors are alarmed at new research out today that shows the grave impact of hot weather on children and young people’s mental health, and are calling on governments to keep this top of mind...

Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) is proud to launch the Hospital Sustainability Project Tracker, designed by DEA’s Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare special interest group.