Media releases

Doctors call on the popular cooking show MasterChef Australia to reconsider its sponsorship deal with Australian Gas Network (AGN). They fear the deal may discourage viewers to replace their gas cookers with healthier alternatives–...

Australian medical and pharmacy schools will be included for the first time in the latest Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC), an influential global publication encompassing 151 health professional schools in 18 countries.

Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) calls for the cross bench to reject the watered down and delayed fuel efficiency standard, and to protect the health of Australians by requiring new vehicle fleet standards...

Doctors for the Environment Australia has today joined environmental conservation organisations across Western Australia in calling on the Cook Government to reject proposed changes to the state’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).

Australia's doctors have welcomed the Government’s proposal to introduce a New Vehicle Efficiency Standard, describing it as 'one part of the overhaul of Australia’s transport that is needed to save lives on the roads’....

Doctors are strongly urging the Federal and State Governments to get behind renewable energy such as wind and solar, as clean energy will save lives and improve the health of all Australians.

Doctors are worried about the health impacts of the heatwave and prolonged power outage in Kalgoorlie, WA. Doctors for the Environment Australia’s spokesperson, Perth GP Dr George Crisp says, “Heat is dangerous to health...

Australia’s first National Health and Climate Strategy represents an important whole-of-government plan to protect the health of Australians from the extreme threat of climate change, and build a sustainable, high-quality net-zero health system.

In this, the hottest recorded year in our planet’s history, Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) welcomes the National Health and Climate Strategy as an important step forward in protecting the health of Australians...

On the 1st December, just prior to the COP28 Health Day on the 3rd December, representatives of the medical colleges for general practitioners (GPs), emergency doctors, rural and remote doctors, and surgeons, as well...