Recent articles in the media featuring, authored, or co-authored by CAHA and its people include:
2019
Federal Election 2019: The cost of inaction on Australia’s new number one threat News.com
Issue that could decide election Queensland Times
2018
10 Ways to Tackle Climate Health Fallout - Australian Journal of Pharmacy
Climate-constrained healthcare - Inside Story
Health impacts key focus of new Queensland climate change strategy - ABC Online
Queensland Government funds plan to tackle climate-driven health risks - ABC News Radio
From local to global, the pressure for action on climate and health is growing - Croakey
Health a key focus of Qld climate plan - news.com.au
Canavan ridicules climate health report, days after climate health expert wins Liberal safe seat - Renew Economy
Australia's Queensland Tackles Climate-Related Disease, Deaths - Voice of America
Australian climate policy ignoring billions in potential health savings, experts say - ABC Online
Australian climate policy "ignoring" billions in health savings - ABC Radio National Breakfast
'Someone could die': Deadly warning for players at Australian Open - news.com.au
New Executive Director for Australia's Climate and Health Alliance - FMMagazine
Heat, health and climate: Aus Open's 'perverse' debacle - Gladstone Observer
2017
The reality of living with 50℃ temperatures in our major cities - The Conversation
Mater hospital pulls logo from Queensland coalmine ad campaign - The Guardian
Leading Health Experts Launch a Framework for a National Climate and Health Strategy - Health Care Without Harm
A landmark development on health and climate: who will seize the moment? - Croakey
Health and climate change: time to lead - Insight, Medical Journal of Australia
Landmark framework paves way for action on climate and health - ANU, Climate Change Institute
Tripartisan #Auspol launch of #ClimateHealthStrategy in Canberra - No Fibs
A changing climate - Australian Journal of Pharmacy
Climate change: A turning point on public health? - ABC Radio National
Experts comment on "The Uninhabitable Earth" - news.com.au
Impact of job losses in Hazelwood may outweigh health benefits - The Guardian
2016 crowned hottest year on record: Australia needs to get heat smart - The Conversation
2016
Wrapping up an historic meeting on climate change and health: “The time will come…" - Jennifer Doggett, Croakey
The Health Impacts Of Climate Change Are Huge And Very Real - Josh Butler, The Huffington Post
Historic meeting pushes for national action on health and climate change - Melissa Sweet, Croakey
Medical staff in dark about policies to mitigate health risks of climate change, study says - Micheal Slezak, The Guardian
Climate policy needs a new lens: health and well-being - Fiona Armstrong and Peter Doherty, The Conversation
Midwives Can Lead on Climate Change - Maria McConkey, Australian Midwifery News
How Climate Change Impacts Health - Peter Doherty, Radio National Breakfast
Expert says humidity should be focus when trying to mitigate heat stress on workers - Tamara Howie, NT News
Humidity should be benchmark for tradies to down tools in Queensland, expert recommends - Matt Watson, ABC News
Sydney weather: Man killed as severe thunderstorms hit city's west - Lucy Cormack, Sarah Muller, Lisa Visentin - Sydney Morning Herald
Climate change could worsen diseases like Zika virus, experts say - Lucy Cormack, Sydney Morning Herald
Sizzling Sydney to hit 40 degrees Celsius - Lucy Cormack, Stuff.co.nz
Sydney area an 'urban heat island' vulnerable to extreme temperatures - Lucy Cormack, Sydney Morning Herald
2015
National Clean Air Agreement slammed for failing to comply with WHO air pollution guidelines - Anthony Stewart, ABC News
States divided, doctors disappointed as National Clean Air Agreement sets air pollution thresholds - Lucy Cormack, Sydney Morning Herald
How’s our health? – Beyond Zero Emissions Radio (with Peter Sainsbury and Fiona Armstrong)
Health concerns raised at meeting – Singleton Argus
Living With Coal – The Health Impacts (interview with Dr Peter Tait) Radio Adelaide
Letter to the editor – Maitland Mercury
Climate and Health Alliance report: What are the health costs from coal mining? (Interview with Assoc Prof Peter Sainsbury) – FBI Radio Backchat
How coal devastates health in the Hunter Valley – Green Left Weekly
Revealed: Major new coal mines planned for the Upper Hunter – Sydney Morning Herald
Our health at risk: Alliance – Muswellbrook Chronicle
Experts speak out on Hunter coal industry’s massive footprint (with infographic) – The Fifth Estate
OPINION: Costs of coal are too high (Fiona Armstrong) – Newcastle Herald
New report claims coal mining a public health burden – Hunter Valley News
A prescription for global public health: no more coal (Liz Hanna and Peter Sainsbury) – ABC Environment Online
Calls for Australia to commission research into impacts of coal – ABC Online
Australia’s Hunter Valley coal’s health bill more than $460m a year – Mining.com
Hunter Valley coal’s annual health bill USD 600 million (Dr. Hanna) – Coal and Steel Guru
Our 47m health bill – Singleton Argus
Hunter coal health cost 600m a year – Herald Sun
Coal health burden hits 600m – Medical Observer
ABC TV News (with Premier Mike Baird)
ABC RN Life Matters (Bob Massie, mentions “fascinating” report)
NSW urged to ban new coal mines in the Hunter Valley on health and climate grounds – Guardian Australia
Sydney Morning Herald (page 7)
ABC Radio National Breakfast (Host Fran Kelly interviews report author Fiona Armstrong)
Newcastle Herald (front page) ‘
Hunter health bill 600m say doctors – The Land
2014
UN climate report warns of severe, irreversible impact
Health and climate change – Life Matters – ABC Radio National
Hot and bothered: our health under climate change by Bianca Nogrady
2013
Climate change to cause significant loss of life: health research and policy forum – report on CAHA Forum in Cranaplus Magazine.
The heat is on by CAHA President Liz Hanna in the New Zealand Herald
Climate change adaptation: a mismanaged delusion by Fiona Armstrong onCroakey
Where is the leadership on health research and climate change? By CAHA Board Members Elizabeth Haworth, Brad Farrant and Fiona Armstrong on Croakey
Your MP doesn’t ‘believe’ in climate change? Ask the tough questions By CAHA Board members Brad Farrant, Fiona Armstrong withKaren Kiang and Mark Edwards on The Conversation
Your MP won’t act on climate change? Ask the tough questions By CAHA Board member Brad Farrant and Mark Edwards on The Conversation
No evidence that wind turbines cause vibroacoustic disease: article in ABC Online The World Today featuring research by CAHA expert advisory committee member Professor Simon Chapman
2012
Health impact of rising carbon levels said to be costing $6ba year Sydney Morning Herald
Carbon tax will cut health bill: expert Herald Sun
Australia’s fossil fuel sickness Climate Spectator
Health budget benefit from emissions cut BigPond News
Fourth Newcastle coal loader a public health menace, says forum
Green Left Weekly – 23 August 2012
Hospitals act to cut dangerous waste
Barossa & Light Herald – 22 August 2012
Help create an online publication covering climate change and health
Crikey (blog) – 6 Aug 2012
Newcastle Star – 21 August 2012
Brimbank Leader – 25 Jul 2012
Climate Commissioners Professor Lesley Hughes, Professor Tim Flannery , Western Health CEO Kathryn Cook, and Fiona Armstrong, Convenor, Climate and Health Alliance.
Carbon tax will cut health bill: expert
Tackling Climate Change can help In Reducing Hospitalizations, says Report
TopNews United States – Aug 14, 2012
Our Uncashed Dividend: The health benefits of climate action
Health budget benefit from emissions cut
Australia’s fossil fuel sickness
United Business Media 7 December 2011
Health groups prescribe hydration for Murray–Darling communities
ECOS Magazine 29 August 2011
Bligh cries foul over carbon tax cash for Victoria
The Age, 22 July 2011
So the carbon price means climate policy is sorted, right? Wrong…
Croakey 11 July 2011
We will be better off with a price on carbon – PHAA Intouch Magazine
Partyline, November 2010
New alliance for climate action
Croakey, September 2, 2010
Hearing from the new Climate and Health Alliance
Croakey, May 26, 2010
Do we need a “Green Health Alliance”?
Melissa Sweet from Croakey published the original proposal for CAHA, first circulated among health care stakeholders in May 2010 as a proposal to establish a “Green Health Alliance”.
