Alana Calvert

When Kerry adopted 3 rescue huskies to help her sons heal from domestic abuse, she never envisioned how much the rental market would change in the decade to come. My story for @abcnews on how the housing crisis is putting rescue charities on the frontline abc.net.au/news/2024-03-0…

Port Pirie parents fear they are fighting 'a losing battle' against lead exposure from Nyrstar smelter abc.net.au/news/2024-10-0… via @ABCaustralia

Floods have devastated parts of Australia in recent years, but for some survivors having to deal with their insurance companies has also been described as traumatising. ab.co/3SUlYFX

Have you ever felt unsafe in an Uber? ⁦@AlanaCalvert⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-07-1…

Scammers posing as investment experts are grooming victims over the phone for weeks to gain their trust, before stealing their money. ab.co/45NevxG

"We're creating a generation of doctors that come from the same type of family, that come from the same level of education." Medical students on brink of entering a health system in crisis already burnt out by 'placement poverty' (via @abcnews) abc.net.au/news/2024-07-0…

"I can't afford to do this, but figure I can't afford not to." Despite working hard her whole life, Debra had little super. At 60 she was still working as a nurse and still renting. One day she decided she'd had enough. She bought a van and hit the road. abc.net.au/news/2024-06-0…

As temperatures drop below zero degrees Celsius, vulnerable Australians like Michelle will have to make an impossible choice this winter — to heat her home or to eat. Via @abcnews abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

"I've read 1,362 coroners' reports in NSW over the last 20 years and (people with mental health and drug issues left untreated) is the common element. "You don't need a royal commission. That money needs to go into frontline services — now." abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

Criminology professor Vincent Hurley says that "we cannot arrest our way out of this" when it comes to addressing domestic violence and that "money needs to go into frontline services now" Watch the latest Q+A on iview here: ab.co/2E7R5d9

An increasing number of do-it-yourself renovations in the rental market has raised concerns around what a lack of policing could mean for renters if it the work is not done correctly. ab.co/3QsTcv3

Reports of unsafe truck driving on Eyre Highway amid increased freight traffic caused by rail closure abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1… via @ABCaustralia

A mother who requested her children be allowed to "sit silently" during the national anthem claims she was left with no choice but to remove them from their Port Augusta private school after staff issued an "ultimatum" to stand. The school denies this. 👇 abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

This week I was commissioned to write my first analysis for the ABC and it was about why China lifting its tariffs on Australian wine won't be a silver bullet for an industry in crisis. 🍷🍇 abc.net.au/news/rural/202…

Number of children with high blood lead levels doubles in Port Pirie, while toddlers show improvement abc.net.au/news/2024-03-0… via @ABCaustralia

‘Extracting value from the human brain is not something that can be regularised like installing a steering wheel on a Model T… It’s the grinding regularity of manufacturing that’s the outlier, not our instinctual attraction to a more natural pace of work’ nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opi…

A farm chemical that only came out in 2021 has allegedly caused bleaching and spray drift damage of plants and crops in three different states, been the subject of a class action and now an investigation in SA involving 26 landholders. Via @annabel_fran abc.net.au/news/2023-12-0…

Good to know trauma has a 2 year lifespan. I gotta get some years back brb

Every survivor I know has lied about atleast 1 thing bc at a certain point in your trauma, pain & exhaustion, someone asks you the 1598th thing, & U just can't BC of shame, exhaustion, trauma & shock. So you lie to buy yourself a second of relief from the endless intrusion &pain

A regional council's decision to remove an Acknowledgement of Country from its correspondence has been labelled "hurtful" and "disgusting" by members of the Aboriginal community. The councillors declined to comment on their support for the motion. abc.net.au/news/2023-11-2…