Self-regulation by corporations such as Facebook and Google will not address the worrying health threat of disinformation, a health leader has warned. Alison Verhoeven, CEO of the Australian... Read more
The Climate Council’s new extreme weather report, Hitting Home: The compounding costs of climate inaction, finds that 2019-20 was a period of unprecedented fire events, killer heat, powerful... Read more
A coordinated international effort is needed to tackle the dissemination via social media of dangerous conspiracy theories and far-right extremism, according Professor Verica Rupar, from the... 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
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
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
With only 10 days left until submissions close to the Senate inquiry into media diversity in Australia, we are encouraging readers to consider making submissions on sustaining a healthy publ... 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
Croakey readers are encouraged to engage with a Senate inquiry into the state of media diversity, independence and reliability in Australia and the impact this has on public interest journal... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Joint Council on Closing the Gap, representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and governments, has agreed to this strategic plan to guide in... Read more
