Ali MC

When Fred Leone’s moth­er died and he had twins, he knew he had to pass on In­dige­nous knowl­edge to the next gen­er­a­tion.

Few­er than 2 per­cent of peo­ple in Papua New Guinea are vac­ci­nat­ed against the coro­n­avirus as cas­es mount.

Ed­u­ca­tion and child­care have fall­en to women who are also strug­gling fi­nan­cial­ly or at risk of vi­o­lence in the home.

Dur­ing lock­down, hun­dreds of home­less peo­ple in Mel­bourne were moved into ho­tels. But what will hap­pen to them now?

Ex­perts say coro­n­avirus con­spir­a­cies and anger over pro­longed lock­downs pro­vide fer­tile ground for the far right.

Cou­ple Cheryl and Troy lived on the streets of Mel­bourne for more than a decade as they bat­tled hero­in ad­dic­tions.

By the time he was 13, Scot­tie was ad­dict­ed to hero­in. A Med­ical­ly Su­per­vised In­ject­ing Room helped him stop us­ing.

In the state of Vic­to­ria, a third of all those leav­ing prison be­come home­less.

When Rachel was 12 years old she saw her fa­ther mur­der her moth­er. Trau­ma­tised, she end­ed up home­less.

Do­mes­tic vi­o­lence is the num­ber one cause of home­less­ness in the coun­try, where al­most 50 per­cent of home­less are women.