'Given the evidence on climate change and its health impacts, we strongly believe peaceful protest should not be viewed as condemnable professional misconduct – but as commendable public health advocacy.'
Our statement on the MPTS case of Dr Sarah Benn
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“Few things in our national dialogue are more bewildering than the ongoing nuclear energy conversation about the need to have a conversation about nuclear energy.”

Short version: ☢️ is economic lunacy.

#auspol

Welcome to Australia.
My The Sydney Morning Herald cartoon.

Poorly controlled #asthma eight times worse for greenhouse gases #GHG #climatechange pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/p…

The inclusion of environmental considerations in Australian dietary guidelines is appropriate (and even overdue) given our planetary challenges. It’s not at all beyond their health remit, because climate change is a public health issue. theconversation.com/a-war-on-red-m…

Moments of policy stupidin GP (1)
If you see your GP for an hour for physical health, you get $113 back from Medicare, if its mental health its $76. And there is no MyMedicare for YOU. MH is excluded from the incentive rise.

For more on this green inhaler issue, see our article for AJGP — www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2022/dece…

Climate scientists are tearing their hair out, so why are millions not in the streets demanding #ClimateActionNow ?

Watch and share Nish Kumar helping Dr Friederike Otto rouse the masses in the latest punchy 'Climate Science Translated' video! 🔥🌎

#NoNewOil #ClimateCrisis #Language

As a scientific society, we're committed to inclusivity and making sure everyone has a spot at the table.

Registration is $500, we secured a discounted hotel rate of $250/night, & flights are $400+. Lunches are an extra $30/day.

Travel awards for $200 available. See you there!

A no brainer, this, really. Once again, our government resorts to lies to justify short-term profit, imperilling all of our futures in the process. theconversation.com/why-the-drug-d…

Sign the #HealthyTransport petition: I'm calling on the Commonwealth Transport Minister to ensure a healthy future for all Australians by creating a cleaner, greener transport system. Climate and Health Alliance healthytransport.au/petition?recru…

I fully expect that bulk-billing of phone or video consultations will soon be a thing of the past.
Services Australia have clarified the requirements for GPs to bulk-bill telehealth and it's a bureaucratic nightmare!
Thread incoming...

As President of the RACGP I'm proud the College has joined 125 health orgs signing on to a joint letter supporting a Voice to Parliament. GPs witness firsthand the disparity in health outcomes impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We need change. #Voice

Are we just privileging the privileged? medicalrepublic.com.au/most-mental-he…

Louise has articulated my daily reality.
Every politician and health bureaucrat needs to read this.

For years, I raised concern treating AFib detected by watches may not avert stroke/save lives.

RCT out now shows anticoag after detection by implanted devices (more accurate & higher risk pop) leads to more bleeding without significant benefit.

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The news today that Australia subsidises fossil fuels by $65 billion a year is just astonishing.

Imagine if we spent that money building more social and affordable homes and properly kickstarting Australia's clean energy boom.

This might be my favourite 2 minutes of tv ever.

George Monbiot getting straight to the heart of what we need to do: system change.

#degrowth

Medicare indexation: 3.6%

Wage Price Index: 3.7% in the 12 months to March 2023.

Consumer Price Index: 7.0% in the 12 months to March 2023.

It appears that, in real terms, Medicare funding is going slowly backwards.

(abs.gov.au/statistics/eco…)

Imagine it indeed. Such good framing of the problem. theconversation.com/imagine-the-ou…

Australia still dragging the chain on climate and health croakey.org/australia-stil… #publichealth