Introduction by Croakey: Sixty health and medical organisations – including Indigenous health groups, service providers, the Australasian College of Health Service Management, the HESTA Supe... Read more
Fossil fuel subsidies cost Australians $10.3 billion in 2020-21 with one Commonwealth tax break alone ($7.84 billion) exceeding the $7.82 billion spent on the Australian Army, according to r... Read more
Pressure is growing on the Australian Government to act on the climate crisis, with the international health and medical sector calling for global action, reports Croakey editor Jennifer Dog... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As the US today warned that it would challenge countries whose action or inaction on climate change was “setting the world back”, environmental and health grou... Read more
The multiple health impacts of climate change have been well documented in scientific and medical literature. However, less well studied has been the potential impact of increasing temperatu... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The devastation wrought by flooding in communities throughout New South Wales and in Queensland last week was front page news in the early days. This week? Not so mu... Read more
The Australian Academy of Science today published a new climate change report that looks at consequences of 3°C of global warming for Australia – a devastating scenario published as communit... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: With initial booking bungles, supply concerns and deliveries impacted by devastating flooding across New South Wales and into Queensland Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said today that many people being battered by devastating flooding in New South Wales will be at “breaking point... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Last month the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA) published a policy statement declaring that climate change is a “health emergency which threat... Read more
