Tag: environment
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Proposed polluting precinct set for Top End sparks concern for environment and health
Lily Pratt, PHAA Policy Officer, and Environment Centre NT Last week’s announcement that the Minister for the Environment and Water, Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, had formally rejected a proposed Central Queensland Coal Project due to environment-related concerns has drawn attention to other alarming projects on the horizon. During question time…
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2022 Food Futures Conference: Transforming food systems for planetary and public good
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA Background According to the United Nations, “Our population trajectory means that from now to 2030, the world will need to build the equivalent of a city of one million people in developing countries, every five days.” The Food and Agriculture: the future of sustainability executive summary…
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Plastic pollution: why is it a public health problem and why Australia needs a plastic pollution policy
Dr Andrew Daltry, Dr Lea Merone, Dr Peter Tait, and Jeremy Lasek It was described as a ‘global pandemic’ long before COVID-19 rocked our world in early 2020. The so-called ‘plastic pandemic’ sees an estimated five trillion pieces of plastic in the world’s oceans right now and it can take…
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Pandemic lessons learnt, legacies, and the need for greater investment
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA The PHAA’s Australian Public Health Conference 2021, while virtual in nature due to COVID, is being widely acclaimed as having some of the best content in years. That old saying of ‘saving the best till the last’ may ring true yet again, following the conference’s final…