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Introduction by Croakey: This week we’ve had more catastrophic news on climate, but don’t spend too much time looking for front page headlines…it’s been *cricket(s)!
The media (and others) are also under fire this week on COVID coverage, and we feature news from abroad, devastating coronial findings at home, much public health news, and what’s coming up in the coming days.
The quotable?
This is the single greatest threat bearing down upon the lives and livelihoods of you, your children and all future generations. Why this isn’t the biggest political issue of today and every day is beyond me.”
Climate crisis mounts
Monday, 3 July 2023, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
The Guardian reported that the average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F), as heatwaves sizzled around the world, notably in southern United States, parts of China, North Africa and in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the World Meteorological Organisation announced today that El Niño conditions have developed in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years, “setting the stage for a likely surge in global temperatures and disruptive weather and climate patterns”.
SMH: Australia vastly underreporting methane pollution, report finds
Lancet: Health effects of low emission and congestion charging zones: a systematic review
Serious systemic failure
From Guardian Australia: A Queensland coroner has ruled institutional racism and a lack of cultural competency from health services contributed to the deaths of three Aboriginal women in the remote Indigenous community of Doomadgee, in northwest Queensland.
Read: Coroners Court of Queensland: Findings of inquest into the deaths of Yvette Michelle Wilma Booth, Adele Estelle Sandy and Shakaya George.
Qld Health Minister: Coronial findings handed down into tragic rheumatic heart disease deaths
Uncovering COVID
NiemanReports: 3 Years Later, Covid-19 Is Still a Health Threat. Journalism Needs to Reflect That
War and other conflicts
PEN Ukraine: Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian writer, and our dearest colleague, passed away
Public health round-up
Read the paper: Systems approaches in prevention research
FECCA: A new model for regulating aged care
Read: VHA Submission to the National Strategy for the Care and Support Economy
Read: NHS Long Term Workforce Plan
Reuters Institute: The Queer Muslim Project
Indigenous health
Read: Healing Foundation Strategic Plan
Costs of living
Media matters
PEN America: Shouting into the void
Read: Young people and TikTok use in Australia: digital geographies of care in popular culture
Coming up soon!
Inaugural UQ NAIDOC Week Keynote Lecture with Professor Marcia Langton AO
