Introduction by Croakey: Climate change is striking harder and more rapidly than expected, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2020. For the first time in the survey’... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: With health groups describing the COP 25 climate talks as “a failure of leadership of historical proportions”, where can we turn for hope and inspiration? In his rec... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The smoke blanketing Sydney and wider NSW is creating a public health emergency that demands a national response, according to a senior emergency physician. Dr Simon... Read more
As communities grapple with bushfires and their devastating health impacts, with vast swathes of NSW affected, the need for effective, creative and sustained public health advocacy becomes i... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Cultural safety is about so much than embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander or Māori culture in a health service; it is also about the responsibility of non-Indi... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: They are acts of violence that can change communities, cities, even countries forever, but when massacres and suicide bombings occur, it is emergency medical staff w... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A concerted focus on the climate crisis at the recent Australasian College for Emergency Medicine conference was timely, with two new reports subsequently highlighti... Read more
*** This article was updated on 27 November with a statement by Senator Jacqui Lambie *** As health professionals and human rights advocates mount a last-ditch effort to thwart the Morrison... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Three specialist medical colleges today declared climate change a health emergency: the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), the Australian College of... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Former Greens leader Bob Brown has called for a new era of defiance, urging millions of Australians to take to the streets for climate action ahead of a protest march of A... Read more
