Teal MP’s Push for Mandatory Climate Health Reporting via Australian CDC Rejected

‘The next pandemic could be months away—or even less time than that,’ Ryan said in parliament.

Wind turbines at sunset in Albany, Western Australia, on Oct. 28, 2024. Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times

Parliament voted down Teal MP Monique Ryan’s bid to include mandatory reporting on the health effects of climate change in the soon-to-be-permanent Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC).

Ryan, who represents the Victorian seat of Kooyong, sought to make the health effects of climate change a core responsibility of the Australian CDC.