Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Ministerial reshuffle this week saw the elevation of women in the Ministry and the establishment of a new Cabinet Taskforce to address “key issues involving w... Read more
Aid agencies are urging Australia to step up its responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Papua New Guinea, warning that the pandemic poses grave threats to PNG and its neighbours, as per warning... Read more
A video report from a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Senegal offers a window into how climate change is devastating lives and property in West Africa. Rising sea levels have destroyed coastal... Read more
Out of the Box is a new column at Croakey from emergency medicine specialist Dr Simon Judkins that will explore climate-related issues through a health lens. In his first column, Judkins ref... Read more
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
*** 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
Introduction by Croakey: A landmark test case is highlighting the excessive use of force in Australian immigration detention centres, according to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC).... Read more
The newly released 2019 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors study, which explores 286 causes of death in 204 countries and territories to reveal the state of the world’s hea... Read more
The recent 2020-21 Federal Budget contained welcome COVID-19 support for the Pacific and Timor Leste, but Oxfam Australia says Australia’s foreign aid commitments must go much wider to help... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to send shockwaves across the globe, with US President Donald Trump in isolation and global cases now topping 35 million. As... Read more
