Inside Story

Essays & reportage From a drowning to a celebration Dennis Altman 11 December 2012 In this edited version of a recent Dunstan Foundation lecture, Dennis Altman looks at forty years of gay liberation and the work still to be done National affairs Leading the way on asylum J. Olaf Kleist 10 August 2012 The expert panel on asylum seekers can create the environment for the kind of leadership that has characterised key points in the history of Australia’s migration policy,… Books & arts Reconciling rights and sovereignty Klaus Neumann 19 July 2012 Andy Lamey’s book, Frontier Justice, would make useful reading for the prime minister’s expert panel on asylum seekers, writes Klaus Neumann International García’s Peru Elizabeth Bryer 21 July 2010 Australia’s embassy is reopening in Lima because Peru’s internal conflict is considered to be over. But the impact of the violence lives on, writes Elizabeth Bryer

Essays & reportage Rights versus compassion Klaus Neumann 3 June 2009 Government policy should confer rights rather than privileges, writes Klaus Neumann National affairs This Charter applies too Jeremy Gans 21 May 2009 The first successful Victorian human rights claim has implications for the debate about a federal rights charter, argues Jeremy Gans National affairs Learning from Haneef Andrew Lynch 5 February 2009 Lost in the Christmas rush was the release of John Clarke’s report on the Haneef affair. Andrew Lynch looks at what the inquiry did – and didn’t – uncover National affairs Complementary protection: Labor’s point of departure Jane McAdam 3 December 2008 Unlike the European Union, Canada and the United States, Australia has no guaranteed protection for people at risk of serious harm in their home country. But that looks set to…