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National affairs Peter Brent 18 February 2019 Don’t bet on it: experience suggests that asylum seekers won’t be the deciding factor in May
National affairs Rodney Tiffen 14 February 2019 The major parties’ contrasting campaign styles have been on display this week Essays & reportage Anne McNevin 30 January 2019 Anne McNevin reviews Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains, which this week won both the Non-Fiction Prize and the Victorian Prize for Literature at the 2019… National affairs Peter Mares 25 October 2018 The opposition should swallow Scott Morrison’s bitter pill. But it also needs a longer-term plan National affairs Sophie Black 3 July 2018 Donald Trump forgot the most basic lesson of Australia’s detention regime: don’t mention the children
National affairs Peter Brent 28 March 2018 Would a stronger prime minister pull Peter Dutton into line?
National affairs Peter Brent 12 January 2018 With the right team, the next election could bury race-based campaigning once and for all Books & arts Klaus Neumann and Karina Horsti 20 December 2017 Candice Breitz’s compelling video installation, and its renaming, has been met with an unsettling silence International Klaus Neumann 13 December 2017 The bid to create a UN convention on territorial asylum might have failed, but it points to possibilities still worth pursuing National affairs Michael Gordon 12 November 2017 The Howard government’s resolution of a similar crisis in 2005 points the way
National affairs Peter Browne 1 November 2017 Australia’s offshore detention system hasn’t just been devastating for its victims, it’s also been bad for the Coalition and Labor
Essays & reportage Andrew Dodd 2 August 2017 Living in limbo, his options narrowing, Aziz survives on his wits in the Indonesian capital Essays & reportage Peter Mares 28 July 2017 Lunch with the controversial custodian of Australia’s borders, Mike Pezzullo, likely head of the new federal home affairs department National affairs Henry Sherrell 27 April 2017 The sting in the tail of the new citizenship rules is a wholly unrealistic English-language hurdle International Klaus Neumann 24 April 2017 Despite ambiguities of meaning and history, the Pope’s reference to concentration camps makes a forceful point about our attentiveness
Essays & reportage Omar Mohammed Jack 5 April 2017 From the new book, They Cannot Take the Sky, comes the story of Omar Mohammed Jack, who left Sudan when he was seventeen and has spent more than three years in detention
National affairs Sam Tyrer 2 November 2016 The Bali Process on forced migration made progress this year, but will governments implement its recommendations? International Klaus Neumann 12 September 2016 The events of late summer 2015 revealed faultlines in German society that won’t quickly resolve themselves, writes Klaus Neumann. Meanwhile, Angela Merkel’s… National affairs Tim Colebatch 2 September 2016 What if we took the leaders at their word? Tim Colebatch looks at the initiatives that might result Essays & reportage Peter Mares 22 August 2016 The Coalition and Labor both say their offshore processing policies are driven by realism, writes Peter Mares. But a practical approach must engage with moral questions as well
Books & arts Sylvia Lawson 7 June 2016 Cinema | Sylvia Lawson reviews Chasing Asylum
National affairs Paul Rodan 25 May 2016 It’s not surprising that Labor won’t rethink its relations with the Greens in the heat of the battle, writes Paul Rodan. But avoiding the longer-term problem… National affairs Peter Brent 19 May 2016 Hot-button doesn’t necessarily equal vote-winner, says Peter Brent. The question is why the Coalition distracts itself from its core message Essays & reportage Madeline Gleeson 11 May 2016 Reopening the PNG detention centre attracted bipartisan support, writes Madeline Gleeson. So how did it go so wrong? National affairs Peter Mares 6 May 2016 The Turnbull government says it won’t allow refugees to be resettled in New Zealand because it’s the “back door” to Australia. Its argument rests on a…
International Sebastiaan Princen 8 April 2016 The agreement with Turkey is an admission that the European Union can’t solve the refugee problem on its own, writes Sebastiaan Princen. Whether it will be enough…
International Klaus Neumann 21 March 2016 The agreement hammered out in Brussels on Friday creates fresh uncertainty and renewed danger for refugees, writes Klaus Neumann International Klaus Neumann 9 March 2016 Despite state elections this weekend, the German chancellor is sticking to her pledge to run a “rational” refugee policy, writes Klaus Neumann. Meanwhile,… Essays & reportage Amin Ansari 2 February 2016 In his winning entry for the 2015 Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition, Amin Ansari shows how social media is changing perceptions of asylum seekers seeking safety in Australia National affairs Peter Mares 24 December 2015 Australia has passed up the option of settling offshore refugees in New Zealand, writes Peter Mares