The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the stress on prisoners and their families, according to Gunditjmara woman Tabitha Lean, who writes below why she supports calls to clean out prisons. T... Read more
In her latest edition of The Health Wrap, Dr Lesley Russell reports on efforts to address racism, coronavirus research and related controversies, aged care concerns, and developments in tele... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: At a time when former prime minister Tony Abbott can be awarded an Order of Australia for his “significant contribution … to the Indigenous community”, it’s hard to... Read more
The spread of COVID-19 around the world has shone a light on overcrowded prisons and, in Australia, the high and growing incarceration rates for First Nations people. In the second of two #C... Read more
In investigating the concerns confronting prisoners during the pandemic, Dr Tess Ryan, an Aboriginal woman of Biripai country, has created the artwork above, “Are we all in this together?”.... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Australian governments are facing renewed calls to dramatically cut the number of people held in prisons and other places of detention that are “potential disaster zo... Read more
Listen to this National Sorry Day podcast below, courtesy of Associate Professor Megan Williams, the Research Lead and Assistant Director of the National Centre for Cultural Competence at Th... Read more
Welcome to the second in a series of #CommunityMatters broadcasts by Dr Janine Mohamed, Chair of Croakey Health Media. Episode 2 #CommunityMattersWatch this video on YouTube The broadcast di... Read more
Alarm bells about punitive policing in NSW during the COVID-19 pandemic were sounded recently in this Croakey article by Peta MacGillivray, a Kalkadoon and South Sea Islander lawyer who is p... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Aboriginal people are fighting a battle on two fronts – against the novel coronavirus and against punitive government interventions, according to Peta MacGillivray,... Read more
