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
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
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 a year that started with a bushfire crisis and is ending with a pandemic, the need to improve Australia’s response to natural disasters has never been more urgent. The Royal Commission in... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: Climate health experts are concerned that the first Health Issues Paper released by the Royal Commission into last summer’s horrific bushfires does not mention climat... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: While there was deep criticism of the failure of the Australian Government, and particularly Prime Minister Scott Morrison, to show leadership during the 2019-20 bus... Read more
Late last month, the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres issued a call for an “immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world” amid the coronavirus pandemic. (You can w... Read more
On 4 March Jinhee Kim, a South Korean public health researcher currently in Australia, wrote in Croakey about her nation’s preparedness for a pandemic. Her article displayed just how far ahe... Read more
There many groups at increased risk of harms related to the COVID-19 pandemic whose needs appear to be largely ignored in Australia’s response (including homeless people, people with disabil... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Midnight Oil frontman, long-term environment campaigner and former Labor Environment Minister Peter Garrett has called for Australia to go onto a “war footing... Read more
