This paper aims to equip GPs with evidence-based strategies to prevent and mitigate heat‑related illnesses.

This paper explores the challenges faced by pregnant women, new mothers, infants and young children during and after the 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires.

This article reviews the evidence on disaster health effects from an all-hazards perspective and highlight GPs’ essential role in disaster healthcare.

This paper describes the challenges faced by children and young people in the face of the unprecedented impact of climate‑related events or anxiety about planetary health.

This article provides a concise introduction to disaster planning for those who are new to Australian general practice or to general practice ownership.

The article discusses the problem that extreme heat poses for mental health and to provide examples of how these problems can be anticipated and mitigated.

These questions are based on the Focus articles in this issue.

This issue aims to give a voice and to provide acknowledgement to GPs and GP researchers with knowledge and experience in disaster health management through dissemination of their insights and wisdom.

General practice and GPs are a valuable resource in disasters, but they also need support to be as effective and as safe as possible.

AJGP presents two initiatives and invite your submissions: a case study that is a collaboration between a medical student with their supervisor; and a new series, ‘Beyond the clinic door’.

Readers express their opinions on published articles and topics of interest

A case presentation of a three-month history of new onset bilateral distal lower limb paraesthesia.

A case presentation of a rapid-onset, painful rash that had developed over 24 hours.

This paper aims to identify transferable lessons from the implementation of diabetic retinopathy screening that could be applied to rheumatic heart disease echocardiographic detection.

A philosophical approach to managing mental illness is not a substitute for medication, but it is a tool that augments the overall management of a patient with a mental health illness.