Is the justice system being used as a de facto disability service, one that proceeds by punitive rather than therapeutic measures?” That was one of the questions posed by Senior Counse... Read more
Wide-ranging systemic and structural changes are needed to ensure food and economic security for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, according to University of Queensland academics... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Through the pandemic, but particularly since contact tracing has been refined to provide blow-by-blow descriptions of people’s movements in order to highlight... Read more
The Health Wrap by Associate Professor Lesley Russell looks this fortnight at how COVID-19 has led to better approaches for homelessness and poverty, the importance of civic trust, the retur... Read more
A new research paper from the Office of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety asks the question Does the quality of residential aged care vary with residents’ financial mean... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Australians generally have demonstrated a high degree of trust in governments and public health authorities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been identifie... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Victoria’s second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected the most vulnerable members of its population, a parliamentary inquiry has found. The Pub... Read more
In a timely wrap, public health researcher Alison Barrett reports on wide-ranging investigations into the nature of COVID-19 and its management. How did it all begin? A World Health Organiza... Read more
The introduction of a floor price for alcohol in the Northern Territory has been such a success for public health that it should be brought in more widely across Australia, say the authors o... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Liberal backbencher and prolific Facebook poster Craig Kelly continues to publish misinformation about public health issues, including COVID-19 and climate change, a... Read more
