Introduction by Croakey: A landmark test case is highlighting the excessive use of force in Australian immigration detention centres, according to the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC).... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The mental health impacts of self-isolation and restricted movement have been widely discussed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But what if that isolation was not s... Read more
The re-election of Scott Morrison’s conservative Liberal-National government has sparked a “human crisis” in Australia’s offshore immigration detention, with a surge... Read more
The UNHCR’s Senior Mental Health Officer and an Australian doctor who has spent time on Manus Island have penned a damning letter on the PNG facility’s “corrosive” co... Read more
This week’s Health Wrap is compiled by Megan Howe, the Sax Institute’s Publications Manager. Enjoy the Wrap and tweet us via @medicalmedia or @meghowe68 if you have any ideas for future issu... Read more
I am starting to feel concerned that perhaps Peter Dutton took his title as “worst Health Minister” the wrong way. It seems to me that such media coverage and notice was so exciting to the n... Read more
In a speech on the current migration crisis this week, the UN High Commissioner singled out Australia’s poor treatment of refugees stating: “I am also dismayed that in Australia,... Read more
Elizabeth Elliot writes: If a visit to Christmas Island sounds like fun, think again. A remote tropical island in the Indian Ocean – billed as a birdwatcher’s paradise and a haven for snorke... Read more
Children are at the centre of any society and deserve our unwavering protection. It is no accident that the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most ratified human rights treaty in... Read more
The official version of how asylum seekers are treated in immigration detention facilities in Darwin is quite different from the reality, reports a prominent medical specialist, Professor Ca... Read more
