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
Introduction by Croakey: With flash flooding ravaging bushfire-devastated areas of Australia this week and a crossbench push for new legislation transitioning the economy to zero emissions b... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Heavy rains have brought relief to many areas across Australia, extinguishing bushfires that have devastated and threatened exhausted communities and bringing hope t... Read more
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has insisted he won’t be “bullied” into stronger action on the climate emergency or to allow a “confined, narrow debate... Read more
Responding to the threat of new infectious diseases, such as the novel coronavirus (nCOV), poses a number of policy and communication challenges for governments. Both under- and over-rea... Read more
