‘The opposite of poverty is not wealth, it’s justice’. So began Sir Michael Marmot’s spirited defence of fairness on Q&A Monday night ahead of his inaugural Boyer... Read more
As the 45th Parliament — our most Indigenous ever in composition — gathers for its first sitting, Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community has thrown dow... Read more
It’s been ten years since Australia’s Close the Gap campaign was launched, calling for an end to inequalities in life expectancy and other indicators for Aboriginal and Torres St... Read more
Walkley award-winning journalist Michael West certainly made an impression with his new public interest reporting site this week, exploding onto the scene with a fascinating expose on the mu... Read more
With Theresa May emerging this week as successor to British Prime Minister David Cameron following the nation’s shock decision by referendum to quit the European Union, questions are mountin... Read more
As the dust settles on Australia’s knife-edge national elections and we await an announcement on who the next Health Minister will be, there’s been another shake-up in the upper... Read more
It’s as Australian as a beer snake at the cricket or the NSW VB Blues, but is the marriage of convenience between booze and sport on the rocks? Carl Heslop from the Alcohol and Drug Fo... Read more
The long-awaited Chilcot inquiry report into the British government’s involvement in the Iraq War was handed down last week, an exhaustive and damning indictment of the Blair administr... Read more
HIV researchers have made headlines in Australia by declaring an end to AIDS as a national public health issue, three decades after the devastating immune deficiency syndrome was first diagn... Read more
The Australian Red Cross has joined calls for a shift to justice reinvestment, issuing a major report urging that it be made a national priority and that trials be rolled out nationwide. The... Read more
