Three recent reports and a new book share some critical messages for addressing systemic failures that are harming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, reports Associate Professor M... Read more
What opportunities has the pandemic created for enabling health equity to become a focus for mainstream policy? Melissa Sweet reports for the Croakey Conference News Service on the launch of... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Nearly 300 mental health consumers and allies across mental health disciplines have signed a letter calling on the ABC to apologise for its recent Four Corners TV ep... Read more
Croakey readers who would like to engage with an opportunity for improving the Australian media landscape are strongly encouraged to make a submission to this consultation by the Australian... Read more
Compared with news media in the United States and United Kingdom, the Australian media lags in developing a more representative workforce – and in developing organisational responses to addr... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: When looking upstream at the determinants of health, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Facebook is polluting the stream in ways that have far-reaching consequenc... Read more
Melissa Sweet writes: The pandemic is exposing and exacerbating many of the determinants of poor health and inequities, such as housing insecurity, poverty, racism, incarceration, precarious... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The daily COVID-19 press conferences held by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews have exposed the general public to the raw and often combative environment of these eve... Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic is a shared global experience; however, its impact can differ greatly between individuals, communities and nations. In Australia the situation varies significantly fro... Read more
The new Closing the Gap agreement between Australian governments and the Coalition of Peaks identifies the need to address institutional racism, discrimination and unconscious bias and to em... Read more
