As Croakey reported last week, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has been examining the indefinite detention of, and the overrepre... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous community and health leaders have called on Reconciliation Australia to revoke its endorsement of Woolworths... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Amid the pandemic and widespread political upheaval, a record number of journalists were imprisoned worldwide in 2020, and the number singled out for murder in repri... Read more
Leading health and community organisations have slammed the Federal Government’s “heartless betrayal” of people relying on JobSeeker after it announced a permanent lift in the rate of just $... Read more
As Guardian Australia reported last month, the World Health Organization selected Professor Dominic Dwyer, Director of Public Health Pathology at New South Wales Health Pathology in Sydney,... Read more
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups and other legal and social groups have expressed dismay about the merger of the Family Court with the Federal Circuit Court, after the government... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: This week Australia marked the 13th anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generations, including with statements in Federal Parliament by Prime Minister Scott Mor... Read more
** This is a rolling post, please ping us on Twitter at @croakeynews with comments and concerns ** Public health experts in Australia were on Thursday horrified by Facebook’s decision... Read more
Calls in Australia and globally for governments to enact austerity policies to claw back their outlays on COVID-19 responses should cause deep concern, according to a recent letter to The Me... Read more
As this earlier article at Croakey reported, the Victorian Government’s recent return of two billion litres of water to the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC)... Read more
