Introduction by Croakey: The federal government has faced stern criticism on its hard hat-heavy COVID recovery budget, with a sustained campaign on social media under the hashtag #CredibleWo... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: For the world’s Indigenous peoples, climate change does not merely represent a hazard to health through more intense weather extremes, frequency of disasters,... Read more
A new report estimating that some 65,000 Australians were displaced by last summer’s catastrophic bushfires has underscored the disproportionate impacts on Aboriginal communities and s... Read more
The mining industry must be much more proactive in protecting the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who contribute to its workforce in diverse contexts, according to aca... Read more
The Federal Government published its landmark pandemic planning blueprint for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities this week, laying out key principles, messages and considerati... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: As unprecedented measures are stepped up across Australia to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, a group of medical professionals on Monday published an open l... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: More new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported outside China than within it for the first time on Thursday, an unwelcome milestone underscoring that the COVID... Read more
The government’s cashless debit card was not only a breach of Australia’s human rights obligations and an affront to Indigenous self-determination, it also contradicted commitmen... Read more
As Amy Coopes reported recently, a Queensland Productivity Commission inquiry has called for “substantial and ambitious” reform to service delivery to remote and discrete Aboriginal and Torr... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: New guidelines launched today aim to ensure better, culturally safer care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who present to hospital services when at r... Read more
