The National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy is set to be updated at the end of the year, after being initially introduced in 2015. VfCA welcomes this update and is keen to lend our...

Chief Veterinary Officers (CVOs), the animal health counterparts to Chief Medical Officers, are the key advisors to the Australian Government on all matters relating to the maintenance and improvement of Australia’s animal health and...

On the 17th of August 2021, the Better Futures Australia team penned a powerful, succinct letter to our Prime Minister Scott Morrison. This letter was jointly signed by leaders of 99 separate organisations and...

It is no secret that here at VfCA we are strongly against any plan for the future that includes fossil fuels. It was with joy and relief that we greeted the Victorian government's outreach...

An application by the NSW DPI seeking emergency permission for use of an unregistered bromadiolone-based product around the perimeter of crops was submitted in May 2021 to combat the mouse plague ravaging the state....

In early July 2021, the Australian government awarded 3 grants totalling $21 million to a gas company seeking to frack the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory. Vets for Climate Action are strongly against...

The Veterinary Nurses Council of Australia (VNCA) held it's 27th conference in June 2021, with the theme of “Engage, Explore, Evolve”. The conference, held largely online this year, boasted a long list of renowned...

This week VfCA submitted to the NSW Government objecting to the proposal by Snowy Hydro Ltd. to build a new gas fired power station at Kurri Kurri. It can be read here.   A...

The Queensland Government is reviewing the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 (the ACPA) 20 years since it was first introduced. VfCA has responded with a submission highlighting that the climate crisis is an animal welfare...

A four-yearly independent review into the Climate Change Act 2008 for Tasmania commenced in February 2021. The submission by VfCA, prepared by volunteer and local Tasmanian Dr Janet Berry can be read on the...

In April 2021, Vets for Climate Action featured at an event commemorating the animals lost in the bushfires. As part of this, Peter Doherty, Nobel prize winner and our patron, presented a short outline...

In September 2020, the Australian Government announced their plan to reverse the COVID-19 induced recession by providing support to, and pumping more investment into the gas industry. Here at VfCA, we are steadfastly against...

Veterinarians for Climate Action has submitted to the House Standing Committe on the Environment and Energy on its review of the Climate Change Bill 2020.