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title: Doctors warn climate change is already impacting health
description: Doctors and nurses warn that the health system is already being impacted by climate change.
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# Doctors warn climate change is already impacting health
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
In today’s news, doctors and nurses warn that the health system is already being impacted by climate change and have called on the Morrison government to commit to stronger action to slash Australia’s contribution to global warming.
Efforts to protect the northern hairy-nosed wombat are paying off with the still threatened species making a comeback from the brink of extinction.
And South Australia has delayed introducing an electric vehicle user charge until 2027 and offered drivers a time-limited $3,000 subsidy on the purchase of a new EVs.
# [Australia’s public health already being hit by climate change, professionals say](https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-public-health-already-being-hit-by-climate-change-professionals-say/)
A vast majority of Australia’s health professionals have warned that the health system is already being impacted by climate change and have called on the federal government to commit to stronger action to slash Australia’s contribution to global warming.
[Electrify everything to help solve climate change](https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-09-07/electrify-everything-saul-griffiths-solution-to-climate-change/100428158)
Speaking from San Francisco, Sydney-born inventor Saul Griffith explains how Australia can rapidly get most of the way to net zero emissions using existing technology.
# [Northern hairy-nosed wombats are back from the brink after dropping to just 35 in the 1980s](https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-09-07/saving-hairy-nose-wombat-brink-of-extinction-epping-forest/100436308)
Since the early 1980s, predator fencing, habitat management, and trial and error in learning about the species' needs, the population of hairy-nosed wombats has grown to more than 300.
# [South Australia avoids universally panned Victorian electric vehicle user charge, for now](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/06/south-australia-avoids-universally-panned-victorian-electric-vehicle-user-charge-for-now)
South Australia has delayed introducing the EV user charge until 2027 or when electric vehicles represent 30 percent of the market, and offered drivers a time-limited $3,000 subsidy on the purchase of a new electric vehicle.
# [Quick, clever and shy, phascogales finally get their close-up](https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/quick-clever-and-shy-phascogales-finally-get-their-close-up-20210902-p58oae.html)
An extremely shy, nimble and bushy-tailed critter is more widespread in central Victoria than previously thought, La Trobe University researchers have found, using heat-sensing cameras to spot the fast-moving phascogale.
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