Climate change, its antecedents and sequelae have been nominated as the globe’s top threat in 2019 by both the World Health Organisation and the World Economic Forum, with the latter w... Read more
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) this week released its Annual Climate Statement, showing 2018 was Australia’s third hottest year on record, while rainfall totals were the lowest since... Read more
The newly appointed Victorian Health Minister, Jenny Mikakos, has inherited an ambitious agenda after the Labor Party’s success at last week’s state election. As stated in its pre-election p... 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
*Updated 10 October, with confirmation from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that it has been “forced to terminate its provision of mental health services” on Nauru and all interna... Read more
Croakey intro: Leading medical groups have added to calls urging the Australian Government to bring an Afghan refugee with advanced lung cancer from Nauru to Australia for palliative care. N... Read more
“Climate chaos threatens the advances in healthcare that we have gained over the past 50 years.” That message, from Chair of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) NSW Dr John Van Der K... Read more
A big crowd is expected to gather this Saturday 24 March to Parliament House in Sydney for the #Time2Choose rally organised by 350.org Australia to call for clean, renewable energy, and for... Read more
(Introduction by Croakey) As US President Donald Trump makes “rollback of environmental regulations one of his signature issues”, and Australia also appears set to cave to industry int... Read more
The health of future generations is being mortgaged as a result of environmental degradation that threatens to reverse the health gains achieved over the past century, according to Dr Helen... Read more
