Media releases

As Australia braces for a brutal summer, leading doctors will on Tuesday visit Parliament House to warn that worsening climate change is driving a mental health crisis — and will call for mental health...

Doctors for the Environment Australia has criticised the federal government’s 2035 emissions reduction target for failing to meet the scale of the problem we face under dangerous climate change, putting communities across Australia at...

The National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) report vividly describes the serious impacts of climate change. It outlines how global heating is harming human health, the health of our environment and impacting almost every aspect...

Doctors for the Environment Australia has expressed disappointment after the Federal Court today upheld the government’s approval of the Scarborough Gas Project’s environment plan, clearing the way for the controversial project to go ahead....

Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) has launched an innovative resource to help healthcare professionals deliver planetary health education and climate action from within their own institutions. DEA’s Climate Grand Rounds Guide provides a...

5th August 2025   The Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Prime Minister of Australia Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs,  Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600   Dear Prime Minister and Minister, This...

Doctors for the Environment Australia is appalled by the indefensible use of starvation, attacks on healthcare and humanitarian aid workers, and the destruction of health facilities, as weapons of war by the Israeli government...

The Federal Court will hear arguments next week regarding the validity of NOPSEMA’s acceptance of Woodside’s Production Environment Plan for its Scarborough Gas Project.

Doctors for the Environment Australia has welcomed the newly unveiled regulations that pave the way for all-electric buildings in Victoria and the City of Sydney, and urges other states and councils to follow their...

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).