Essay by Eric Worrall
Fear of the fake climate crisis causes the real harm. Will these government funded researchers have the courage to put this in their report?
$6 million for research on climate and mental health
The Government is addressing the human health impacts of climate change, with $6 million for Australia’s leading researchers to study and combat the mental health challenges of climate change.
The Hon Rebecca White MP
Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care
Assistant Minister for Indigenous Health
Assistant Minister for WomenMedia event date: 24 September 2026
Date published: 24 September 2026
Media type: Media release
Audience: General publicThe Albanese Government is committed to addressing the human health impacts of climate change, with $6 million for Australia’s leading researchers to study and combat the mental health challenges of climate change.
The Australian Government has awarded $6 million to 3 new research projects through the Medical Research Future Fund.
Projects will study and devise methods to improve the mental health and wellbeing of people affected by climate change, with a particular focus on First Nations people.
Adelaide University, the University of Melbourne and the Menzies School of Health Research have each been awarded almost $2 million each to research, advise on policy, and implement local community strategies. Each of these projects was identified through a competitive application process, and assessed by independent assessment committees.
Climate change disproportionately affects First Nations communities as the distress of unprecedented droughts, longer summers and continued extreme weather events lead to heritage and environmental loss. Two of the three projects will include a focus on the experience of First Nations communities.
Full details of the awarded grants are in the table below.
Quotes attributable to Assistant Minister White:
“The grants from the Albanese Government will provide some of Australia’s top researchers with the funds they need to improve mental health support for Australian’s impacted by climate change.
“These projects will deliver a range of practical, community-led responses to emerging mental health challenges with an important focus on First Nations communities impacted by climate change.”
Quotes attributable to Assistant Minister McBride:
“Two in five young people experience mental health challenges each year. These aren’t just numbers – they’re our family, our friends, our teammates and our colleagues.
“We’re living through challenging times, and supporting the mental health of Australians remains a clear priority for the Albanese Labor Government.
“If you’re feeling overwhelmed, I encourage you to speak with a health professional at your local Medicare Mental Health Centre or reach out to headspace.”
Applicant name Organisation Project Title Project Description Grant Value (GST exclusive) Associate Professor Toby Freeman Adelaide University Helping prevent mental health deterioration at scale: Mitigating the population mental health impacts from climate breakdown-related loss or anticipated loss of heritage As climate breakdown intensifies, communities are increasingly experiencing psychological distress. In particular, the loss or anticipated loss of natural and cultural heritage, including cherished landscapes, ecosystems, and culturally significant places, can lead to grief, distress and anxiety. This project will deliver practical resources for communities and the mental health system, and actionable policy recommendations to mitigate mental health impacts of heritage and environmental loss. $1,942,278.00 Associate Professor Supriya Mathew Menzies School of Health Research Pintupi-led climate yarning to mitigate climate change-related mental health risks In partnership with Pintupi people and the Pintupi Homelands Health Service, the project will co-design, implement, and evaluate strategies and resources aimed at reducing both current and emerging mental health risks linked to climate-related stress. By working closely with the community and local stakeholders, the project will empower residents and remote health staff to take an active role in addressing the social and emotional wellbeing challenges brought on by climate change. $1,997,077.60 Professor Victoria Palmer University of Melbourne Gathering the parts, making the whole: Lost but not Forgotten, participatory ecosystems to mitigate impacts of climate change on mental health Climate changes disproportionately impact Indigenous communities, and younger generations are expressing increased eco-grief and eco-anxieties. Across 50 remote art and cultural centres, communities of the Great Southern region of WA, Tennant Creek in NT and a national story sharing project, we will illustrate how participatory ecosystems protect culture, Country and offer two-way learning to mitigate the mental health impacts of climate change and co-design prevention for future generations. $1,994,458.10 Total Commitment Expenditure (GST exclusive) $5,933,813.70 Minister:
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Source: https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-rebecca-white-mp/media/6-million-for-research-on-climate-and-mental-health?language=en
There is no doubt a lot of young people especially are suffering mental health problems because of climate change, but it is not changes to the climate which is doing the damage – it is the relentless fake doomsday predictions they are force fed from primary school which is doing the real harm.
Fear of climate doomsday is likely contributing to the drug abuse crisis which is destroying the lives of our young people. The following is from Dr Wodak, who testified to a government meth addiction inquiry in 2019.
I mean if you think you’re going to die before adulthood, that the world is doomed, and nobody is doing anything to prevent this calamity, you can understand why people in this horrifying predicament turn to abusing hard drugs to numb the pain.
I wonder how much damage that climate doomsday messaging is doing in outback aboriginal communities which are the focus of two of the three grants? Are young people in remote communities drinking themselves to death because they think they’re going to die anyway from climate change?
The worst thing about all this climate doomsday propaganda is it is all a big falsehood. There is zero chance anthropogenic climate change in the foreseeable future will make the world uninhabitable for humans. Even if all the worst case climate doomsday predictions were to manifest, the proof we would be just fine is that our monkey ancestors thrived in a much hotter world. The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 5-8C hotter than today, was the age of monkeys. Our monkey ancestors thrived on the abundance of the hothouse PETM, and colonised much of the world, only retreating when the cold returned.
If a bunch of monkey ancestors with brains the size of match boxes could thrive in such conditions, then we could certainly do at least as well.
I hope one of those professors finds the courage to bite the hand which feeds them, and return a finding that the best thing which can be done to improve the mental health of vulnerable people affected by climate change, is to eliminate the government funded fake climate doomsday propaganda which drove them into such a state of fear and despair.
The Globalist/Marxist tentacles are omnipresent and never ending and have followers despite history. Democracy and Capitalism need to up their ante with youth or face extinction.
Luckily, young people tend to rebel against what the older generation promotes as truth. At some point they’ll realize their financial struggles have a lot to do with vast amounts of money wasted on the climate cult.
Won’t happen – because they will rebel against the older generation, as you said.
It’s already happening – what do you think the terms Gen Z and Boomer are all about.
They are already blaming the Boomers for everything that goes wrong.
And the vast amounts of money are needed to repair all the damage the Boomers supposedly have caused.
And there will be no older generation promoting the ” truth” – young , eloquent celebrites will promote old shit(communism) now rebranded hippies/now progressives, while the old people pulling strings –
it worked so well with Woodstock, later Obama.
Add to communism bread and circus/games(sex, drugs and rocknroll)
and 1984 becomes Brave New World.
It’s all about anger management, crowd control and directing the Fury towards an enemy of your choice.
Remember Ukraine? The anger was 100% real.
It was about Oligarchy and Poverty.
This anger was highjacked and redirected against the
government for rejecting the EU deal.
The EU Deal was actually a total austerity rip-off alongside loss of sovereignty and massive economical decline – but it was sold as piece of gold.
Government was overthrown – another Oligarch was installed.People got poorer, but remained silent because they got what they want and defeated the enemy – while the real enemy took over.
And despite the fact that this movement was extremely nationalist and conservative,
they went along with accepting all the western values of LGBT, trashing the traditional church and replacing it with a new Ukrainian church and a 100+ new Evangelical churches.
These young people will protest Boomers and Patriarchi – never the real cause,
just as Ukrainians won’t protest the real enemy.
Boomer (me): Yes, I did it, and I’ll do it again!
Munchhausen Syndrome By Proxy strategy.
Interesting btw that Monkeys covered with hair could easily cruise around in a 5-8 degrees hotter climate and even had to retreat once it got cooler,
but for humans missing the human co2 greenhouse runaway effect called bodyhair these temperatures are too hot?
How does this make sense?
Did they write their own indictment?
The observation that lots of irrational approaches & strategies for solving problems amount to relying on –
“hope over experience”.
Yet without “lived experience” (as applies to children), “hope” is essential for their wellbeing.
So how does it help children to develop a positive outlook for their lives when their “hope” is constantly undermined by doomsday predictions they know they can nothing about?
That’s just straightforward child abuse!
It’s actually a very effective strategy to demoralize people, and turn them that way into compliant sheep that go along with every austerity, perversion etc authorities throw atl them if they are permanently exposed to a good cop- bad cop scenario.
The permanent doom&guilt scenario keeps them down and in love with big brother who “protects” them from the hobgoblin, while the hope to eventually leave doom&guilt behind and reach Utopia keeps them functional enough to do their job.
Combined with bread and games you get a great prison that doesn’t need walls.
“Albanese Government $6 Million Grant for Climate Change Mental Health Research”
That money should be to treat those with the most fanatic climate fear- especially those promoting that fear. 🙂
The grant should really be used for a Royal Commission into climate science propaganda being waged by the Socialist left on everybody else, especially vulnerable children who have been mentally damaged by being scared witless by fraudulent catastrophic climate hazard predictions.
This of course won’t happen with the current government of toadies, but it will happen under a conservative government coalition that includes One Nation, once the soft left liberals, Teals etc finally realize they have been sold a dead horse with the fake climate crisis.
Yes, giving money to researchers will improve mental health…of the researchers.
We need to quit monkeying around with fake manmade climate change.
Yet more useless propaganda by a worthless government. I suggest a study that will cost nothing. The government has been preaching gloom and doom for better than thirty years. My suggestion is to stop talking about climate change for just five years just one sixth the amount of time you have hawking doom and gloom. My prediction is that the mental anxiety will go away for a vast vast majority of people. It would cost nothing and we could get busy building proper power generators you know fossil fuel and nuclear. It is a win win.
Nonsense, borrowing from Karl Kraus, this scheme is the very mental illness of which it purports to be the cure.
I wonder what the rate of return is in terms of of Party donations and vote campaigns. It must be pretty high given the level of policy stupidity exposed in this maneuver.
I maintain that the people whose mental health is or has been adversely affected by the climate alarmist narrative are a little unstable from the outset. They overreact to even every mildly negative occurrence to the point of being afraid of even their own shadows. Yet they have one useful function: they keep the psychiatrists in business, while normal people go about their daily routines as usual.
There are certainly a lot of alarmists like that, but there are also lots of level headed relatively smart people who just don’t have the math or engineering background to do their own calculations and see through the lies.
Harold The Organic Chemist Says:
ATTN: Ozians
RE: No Warming in Alice Springs Since 1879!
For an Alice Springs temperature check, I went to:
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/alice-springs/average-temperature-by-year. The Thi and Tlo data from 1879 to 2025 and from two weather stations are displayed in a table. Here is a summary of the
data:
Alice Springs Intl. Airport, 1942-2025
Year——-Thi——-Tlo Temperatures are °C
2025——30.3——13.4
1942——29.5——13.9
Change–+0.8—— -0.5
Range Thi: 27.0–30.7
Range Tlo: 9.7—15.7
Old Post Office at Alice Springs, 1879-1941
Year——-Thi——Tlo
1941——-27.5—–12.7
1879——-28.8—–11.9
Change— -0.5—-+0.9
Range Thi: 27.0—-30.6
Range Tlo: 11.6—–14.7
CO2 Concentration Data
2025: 429 ppmv, 0.84 g CO2 per cu. m. of air
1979: 280 ppmv, 0. 55 g CO2 per cu. m of air
Increase in CO2 concentration: 53%
Note and never forget how very little CO2 there is in the air.
At both weather stations the slight warming of less than 1° C since 1879, is well within the range of natural temperature variation as shown by the Thi and Tlo range data. Although the concentration of CO2 in the air had increased by 53%, this had no effect on air temperature at this semi-arid desert location. This data falsifies claim by IPCC that CO2 causes global warming.
The challenge is how to use this empirical data to convince
Premier Anthony A. and the Canberra Climate Cartel to abandon their draconian climate agenda and the goal of Net Zero by 2050.
NB: At the EWW home page, the are links in light blue to all the states in Oz for acquisition of weather and climate data.
Home URL: https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com
How about explaining how American F35 parts got to China from Australia. Either that or start teaching Mandarin with the climate mental health crap.
Trotting out the double whammy to get ridiculous amounts of money thrown at them – climate change and indigenous.
No matter how stupid the research is, by invoking either one of those you’ll get OPM in wheelbarrow loads, invoking both at once starts to generate truckloads.
Always money to be made from Climate Change® even if there are no changes in the climate.