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News from the Secretary January/February 2005

Submitted by David Shearman on Sun, 06/02/2005 - 19:08. News about DEA

The Management Committee of Doctors for the Environment Australia established its priorities for 2005 during a teleconference in late January.

1. Community environmental education with posters in doctors’ waiting rooms.
We are developing an educational project involving the design and distribution of posters on sustainability and health. The health aspects of climate change and loss of biodiversity have been selected. The posters will be distributed for display in doctors’ waiting rooms and we look forward to the help of all DEA members in implementing this proposal. We will keep you informed of all the details. To fund the project we have made application to the Federal Environment Education Program. If unsuccessful we will initiate the project slowly from our own funds whilst applying to other funding sources. We are very enthusiastic about this project for it is the first instance that we will be able to involve all our members. The project will be run by Sarah Morton with assistance from David King and myself.

2 Briefing Federal politicians
We have made a decision to continue our briefing of Federal politicians on topics of importance to DEA. When state elections are looming we will also involve ourselves with state politicians. Your Management Committee feels that this is an important part of our work and it must continue.

3. Student membership
We will increase our endeavours to attract more medical student members. Some of you will have sons and daughters who are at medical school. Please ask them to look at the web page and to contact us. We hope that part of the attraction of joining will be a student section on the web page that will be both educational and interactive. This is being prepared by Sarah Morton and Nick Towle.

4.Childrens health policy
This has been under preparation for some time and is now nearly finished. One problem has been that within DEA we have not had expertise in childhood toxic issues. We have now obtained valuable assistance from Mariann Lloyd Smith of the National Toxics Network and will be establishing links with that organisation.

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We encourage all members to look at the web page Recent important additions are

The Tsunami in Sri Lanka. Sian Hughes, member of DEA management committee, was on the Sri Lankan coast with her family when the wave arrived. This is the story of their survival.

Stephen Boyden, Member of our Scientific Committee, writes on ecological sustainability. We encourage members to respond.

Review of the book Into the Future, The Neglect of the Long Term in Australian Politics by Ian Marsh and David Yencken.. David is also a member of our Scientific Committee.

We look forward to your support during 2005. Please contact me on any issue of concern to you.
David Shearman, Hon Secretary

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