Media releases

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...

Two-thirds of Australians support the federal government making new fossil fuel project approvals dependent on an assessment of their health impacts, according to new research by Doctors for the Environment Australia and the Australia...

Doctors For the Environment Australia is calling on the federal government to deliver a promise it made last year to expand the water trigger in the nation’s nature laws before Parliament breaks for Christmas....

The Australian Medical Association and Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) are calling on federal, state and territory governments and the wider healthcare sector to take urgent action against climate change.

Health workers are calling on the NSW Government to stick to the Eraring coal power station’s current closure date for the sake of the community’s health.