Introduction by Croakey: For the world’s Indigenous peoples, climate change does not merely represent a hazard to health through more intense weather extremes, frequency of disasters,... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Businesses, health services, trade unions, universities and other institutions are supporting today’s historic school strike, while some academics have signed an ope... Read more
Such is the threat of the climate crisis to Torres Strait Islanders that a group has lodged a case with the United Nations Human Rights Committee, arguing that Australia’s failure to take ad... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The #Health4NSW Twitter festival had contributions from across the health sector, including from Aboriginal health researchers, consumers, public health advocates, d... Read more
More than 100 young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people gathered in Canberra on 12 and 13 February to address the damage being caused by environmental colonialism and climate change... Read more
The Lancet has described tackling climate change as the ‘greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century.’ The upcoming NSW election is one of those opportunities to improve our healt... Read more
As fires rage across Tasmania and Victoria, and catastrophic floods deluge Townsville in north Queensland, doctors have urged the Federal Government to treat climate change as a “health emer... Read more
On Friday the Morrison Government announced it would remove $3.9 billion from a Building Australia future fund into a drought future fund. In the article below, a senior psychiatrist, Profes... Read more
In the lead up to #EcoHealth2018 – the International Association for Ecology and Health conference – in Colombia this month, Croakey is publishing the final articles in our #JustClimate seri... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: What do we care about? Looking at what dominates the news headlines in this country; what’s shared on social media and discussed on morning television, I sometimes w... Read more
