As reported last week, the delivery of your letter to Parliament House is still being circulated so the emphasis is on the voice of doctors making a clear statement to move to 100% renewable by 2030 for domestic use and 2035 all else.
Bring in electric vehicles and infrastructure to support this market especially in states where these vehicles are taxed and made unaffordable!
CAHA member @drmsimonis in action!
Well done @HealthyFuturez on this great action today, and leading a big coalition of health orgs to call for 100% renewables for VIC by 2030. https://t.co/efiEdhBxMJ
— Climate and Health Alliance (@healthy_climate) September 21, 2022
Join the Online Action: 11 October
To build on the momentum of today’s action we will be coordinating an online action on Tuesday 11 October which will involve sending messages via social media and email to VIC ministers calling for a 100% renewables commitment. We will be in touch again with more details, but please mark it in your diary.
Thank you again for helping have a positive impact today!
With thanks,
Ursula
Ursula Alquier
Regional Victorian Community Campaigner
Healthy Futures
P: 0474 803740
E: [email protected]
Associate Professor Magdalena Simonis AM is the Immediate Past President of the AFMW (2020-2023), former President of VMWS (2013 & 2017-2020) and current AFMW National Coordinator (2024-2026). She is a full time clinician who also holds positions on several not for profit organisations, driven by her passion for bridging gaps across the health sector. She is a leading women’s health expert, keynote speaker, climate change and gender equity advocate and government advisor.
Magdalena was awarded a lifetime membership of the RACGP for her contributions which include past chair of Women in General Practice, longstanding contribution to the RACGP Expert Committee Quality Care, the RACGP eHealth Expert Committee. She is regularly invited to comment on primary care research though mainstream and medical media and contributes articles on various health issues through newsGP and other publications.
Magdalena has represented the RACGP at senate enquiries and has worked on several National Health Framework reviews. She is author of the RACGP Guide on Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery and co-reviewer of the RACGP Red Book Women’s Health Chapter, and reviewer of the RACGP White book
Both an RACGP examiner and University examiner, she undertakes general practice research and is a GP Educator with the Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence, which develops education tools to assist the primary care sector identify, respond to and manage family violence . Roles outside of RACGP include the Strategy and Policy Committee for Breast Cancer Network Australia, Board Director of the Melbourne University Teaching Health Clinics and the elected GP representative to the AMA Federal Council. In 2022. she was award the AMA (Vic) Patrick Pritzwald-Steggman Award 2022, which celebrates a doctor who has made an exceptional contribution to the wellbeing of their colleagues and the community and was listed as Women’s Agenda 2022 finalist for Emerging Leader in Health.
Magdalena has presented at the United Nations as part of the Australian Assembly and was appointed the Australian representative to the World Health Organisation, World Assembly on COVID 19, by the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) in 2021. In 2023, A/Professor Simonis was included on the King’s COVID-19 Champion’s list and was also awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division for significant service to medicine through a range of roles and to women’s health.
