The recent child and youth suicides in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities contain a message for Australian society, according to a statement issued recently by The Centre of B... Read more
New research is reporting overwhelming support from Australians for a process of truth telling about past injustices experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The 2018 Aus... Read more
*** This article was updated with more material after publication *** More than 250 people attended a powerful healing ceremony on Yinggarda Country in the remote Western Australian town of... Read more
As foreshadowed in a recent article, Historical truth telling as a healing intervention: an invitation to the health sector to engage, members of the Croakey team will head to Carnarvon in W... Read more
How can the health sector contribute to healing through historical truth telling about the nature of colonisation and its wide-ranging impacts upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peop... Read more
First, the text of the apology by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to those who, while children, suffered abuse at the hands of those who claimed to care for them. Then selected reaction.... Read more
This year’s Indigenous Health Mayday Twitter event, #IHMayDay18, trended nationally on Twitter throughout the day, and involved almost 1,500 participants, with 20 guest tweeters joinin... Read more
On 27 April, more than 25 people participated in a walk of acknowledgement and remembrance on Yinggarda country, in Carnarvon, Western Australia (as was previewed at Croakey recently). They... Read more
Marie McInerney writes: The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is considering a call for the profession to make a formal apology for its part in the harm inflicted by racist... Read more
There is no greater evidence of our failure to address Indigenous disadvantage in Australia than the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children represent one in every three chi... Read more
