Critical Condition - the impact of Covid-19 policies, policing and prisons on First Nations communities

Covid-19 is affecting people from all walks of life, all around the world. Certain groups of people are most at risk to the worst health impacts of Covid-19 - people with chronic illnesses, respiratory conditions, the elderly, people who smoke and people with disabilities or compromised immune systems. Due to the ongoing impacts of colonisation, poverty and inequality; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have poorer health outcomes than Australia’s non-Indigenous population. As well as being particularly at risk of the worst health impacts of the virus itself, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are also disproportionately affected by some of the more punitive and restrictive Covid-19 policy responses at a state, territory and Commonwealth level.

It is these measures that this report seeks to address.

Read the full report here.