Last week signaled a shift in the involvement of the health and medical community in Australia’s unhealthy dependence on fossil fuels. Health leaders met at a national Roundtable in Canberra in early February 2013. They resolved to engage more directly with energy policy in this country, to see that the local and global implications of the coal rush are highlighted in terms of the impact on health.

Read the full ABC online opinion piece by Fiona Armstrong, Convenor of the Climate and Health Alliance. CAHA joined the Public Health Association of Australia, Climate Change Adaptation Research Network – Human Health, Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, and National Rural Health Alliance to co-host the recent roundtable and workshop on the Health Implications of Energy Policy.