Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2020. This article was fi... Read more
During 2020, Dr Tess Ryan spent nine months in ‘hard’ lockdown in Melbourne. Her only outings were for neighbourhood walks, due to a health condition. However, she learnt to punch on. Tess R... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As 2020 nears its end, we think of the 1.7 million people who have died from COVID-19 this year and their loved ones, the 44 million who’ve recovered, and the... Read more
An online mapping tool that helps people and communities to access health services as close as possible to family, home and country has been launched in Western Australia, reports Jade Bradf... Read more
*** Update: After this story was published, about 60 refugees and asylum seekers, who had been detained in Melbourne’s Mantra hotel, were moved to another detention site, reportedly th... Read more
The Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s voices Bunuba language) Project has elevated the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls across Australia. With the project’s... Read more
When the business models of some of the world’s most powerful companies benefit from the dissemination of lies and disinformation, what does this mean for democracy? Marie McInerney re... Read more
Reporting on disasters has always been fraught for journalists, and the people and communities they report on – and these issues are likely only to intensify as we experience increasing disa... Read more
In the first several months of the pandemic, Australian governments took generally swift and decisive action to minimise the deaths and suffering caused by the novel coronavirus. What are th... Read more
As a major new report warns that the world’s children face a grim future due to the climate emergency and other existential threats, a group of eminent Australians has launched a Safe Climat... Read more
