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January 22, 2019 | Business World
Strategies To Keep Children Safe on the Roads
Grantee Dinna Louise C. Dayao reports on how easily implemented changes to road safety can save lives around the world.
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Australia
November 14, 2018 | The New York Times
Down Under, More Humane Private Prisons
Australia and New Zealand contract with companies to design and manage facilities and reward the companies financially if their prisoners’ recidivism rates fall.
July 03, 2018 | The New York Times
Why New Zealand Is Furious About Australia’s Deportations Policy
New Zealanders are now the largest group inside Australian immigration detention centers, straining one of the world’s closest bilateral relationships.
June 25, 2018 | The New Yorker
The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger
Brooke Jarvis investigates the mystery of the Tasmanian tiger, a global icon of extinction that some believe still exists—out there in the wild, just beyond the reach of human knowledge.
August 20, 2015 | The Center for Public Integrity
How We Created Fatal Extraction
Fatal Extraction is the story of Australian mining’s vast but rarely-examined social and environmental footprint in Africa.
July 28, 2014 | Grist
What is Climate Change Doing to Our Mental Health?
Watching the ocean inch up to your doorstep can be pretty stressful. Researchers are studying the ways climate change can undermine our well-being, and how we can bounce back.
May 08, 2014 | PRI's The World
Australians Aim to Build Psychological Resilience in the Face of a Changing Climate
Australia has recently suffered droughts, floods, tropical storms and heat waves that many scientists warn climate change will bring, and the impact also has psychological effects.
May 07, 2014 | PRI's The World
Faced with Dire Climate Change, Denial May Help Australian Farmers Cope
In Australia, government researchers say climate change has definitely hit the country, hard. But farmers who are feeling it are not ready to believe it.
August 12, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Roads Kill: Quick Facts from Around the World
The world's roads are still a place of carnage, with hair-raising instances of risky practices, unenforced laws and shoddy data. This quick survey of country facts also shows that progress is real.
December 01, 2009 | PBS NewsHour
Australia: Drought Down Under
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro takes an in-depth look into the drought plaguing Australia.
Incentivizing Innovation in Corrections
This project explores how Australia and New Zealand are partnering with the private sector to ensure less people come back to prison.
Detained, Deported, Deserted
New Zealanders make up the largest group of people inside Australian detention centers, and hundreds have been deported in recent years—an issue that’s causing mounting social and political tensions.
In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger
Eighty years after its official extinction, the thylacine is still "spotted" regularly. This article will explore what the phenomenon tells us about extinction and guilt, nature and resilience.
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa
Belying Australia's positive international reputation, mining companies from Down Under are accused of killing, maiming and polluting communities across Africa.
Climate Change and Mental Health
Climate change has already destroyed homes and crops. But what is it doing to mental health?
July 19, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Sylvia Varnham O'Regan
New Zealanders are now the largest group inside Australian immigration detention centers. Journalist Sylvia Varnham O'Regan discusses her reporting on this increasingly divisive issue.
April 21, 2014 | Meet the Journalist
Joanne Silberner on Climate Change and Mental Health
Joanne Silberner is visiting Australia and Fiji to find out if changing weather patterns can affect the mental health of a population. The answers aren't so simple.
June 03, 2013 | Meet the Journalist
Journalist Sharon Schmickle Connects via Skype with Students in Australia
Skype brings Pulitzer Center grantee Sharon Schmickle together with classes studying food insecurity at Australia's Queensland University of Technology.
October 03, 2018 | General news, Project news
Talking Tasmanian Tigers: Longreads Interviews Brooke Jarvis
Grantee Brooke Jarvis discusses reporting on the search for the Tasmanian tiger, the psychology of obsession, and humanity's need for uncertainty.
July 10, 2018 | Newsletter
This Week: Poverty in America
This Week: Nearly one in five children in America suffers from being poor, deportations are straining relations between Australia and New Zealand, and ISIS has undermined faith in Iraq.
July 05, 2018 | Newsletter
This Week: Torture in Yemen's Prisons
Yemeni detainees being without charges decry abuse, the search for the Tasmanian tiger continues despite its supposed extinction, and the 2016 peace deal in Colombia has opened new areas to scientists.
August 21, 2017 | General news, Project news
Daniella Zalcman Takes Over @PulitzerCenter Instagram in Australia
Continuing her project, Signs of Your Identity, Daniella Zalcman interviews members of the Stolen Generations in Australia.
December 20, 2016 | Education news
The Art of Global Journalism: Professional Development Seminar
Grantee journalist Will Fitzgibbon discusses his project "Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa" with teachers in Washington, DC, as part of Pulitzer Center series for educators.
June 01, 2015 | General news, Education news
Pulitzer Center 2015 Student Fellows Announced
Students journey across the globe to report on issues that matter—from migration to global health and indigenous land rights.
July 22, 2014 | General news, Project news
Journalists Put the Dual Crisis of HIV and Human Rights Firmly on the Agenda
With the help of the Pulitzer Center, UN AIDS is achieving a major goal: harnessing the power and reach of the media to challenge HIV-related stigma and champion human rights.
August 10, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: All in the Family
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Nicaragua's political discord to iPhone photos of ordinary life in Africa.
August 02, 2012 | General news, Project news
Daniel Grossman's New eBook, "Deep Water," Released
Daniel Grossman's first TED ebook, "Deep Water," explores sea-level rise and climate change while making innovative use of a new interactive platform.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
March 04, 2016 | High School
The Dangers of Drunk Driving
Students read global news articles and design a mock campaign addressing the issue of driving under the influence.
February 03, 2016 | All Grades
Introducing Classes to Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa
Fatal Extraction examines the impact of Australian mining companies on African communities. Through exploration and discussion, students will learn about the concept of corporate responsibility.
February 03, 2016 | All Grades
Investigating Australian Mining in Africa Using Multimedia
Students learn about the impact of mining companies on African communities. Accusations of violence and poor safety regulations are explored using photographs, videos, court documents, and...
February 02, 2016 | Middle School
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa- Ideas to support Eleanor Bell and Will Fitzgibbon's school visits
Uses resources from Fatal Extraction to support understanding around interdependent global forces, social vs individual needs, legacies of discrimination and environmental impact of human activity.
October 12, 2015 | All Grades
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
June 03, 2015 | Middle School, High School
Human Adapters to Climate Change
Using multiple reporting projects from our Climate Change Gateway, this lesson explores the responses of various communities worldwide to a changing climate....