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immigration
National affairs
No longer fit for purpose
Paddy Gourley
30 August 2024
It’s time for a reborn immigration department outside Canberra’s bulging home affairs portfolio
From the archive
It’s time to abandon the Home Affairs experiment
Paddy Gourley
27 November 2023
Labor’s changes to the controversial portfolio don’t go anywhere near far enough
Correspondents
Between the idea and the reality
Michael Jacobs
14 October 2021
The British PM will need to shake off his party’s deepest beliefs to reform the British economy
National affairs
Does immigration mean lower wages?
Adam Triggs
20 July 2021
Despite the popularly held belief, there is no evidence that immigration reduces wages in Australia
Essays & reportage
Land of plenty
Amanda Nettelbeck
26 March 2021
Is the federal government looking for too much unity in a country nourished by difference?
National affairs
Australia’s Brexit?
Sam Roggeveen
25 November 2019
Loss of confidence in political parties could translate into disengagement from our region
National affairs
Australia’s multicultural advantage
Abul Rizvi
22 November 2019
Our immigration success story didn’t happen by accident — but is it under threat?
Books & arts
“It’s not hard to become a political cartoonist from China, because there are only five or six of us”
Rowan Callick
7 June 2019
Profile
| A popular Australian-based Chinese artist steps out of the shadows
National affairs
Australia’s student visa blowout
Tim Colebatch
6 May 2019
Tonight the ABC opens up an issue both major parties — and the universities — are reluctant to talk about
National affairs
Malcolm Fraser’s real mistake
Judith Betts
12 April 2019
Contemporary records show that Australia didn’t adequately assist refugees admitted during the Lebanese civil war
National affairs
Power, in black and white
Sophie Black
22 August 2018
From the archive
| A man who seems relaxed about making life-and-death decisions might not be the best person to wield greater power
National affairs
Second-string demagoguery
Peter Brent
15 August 2018
At least Fraser Anning will be out of parliament by July next year
National affairs
Small world
Peter Brent
28 March 2018
Would a stronger prime minister pull Peter Dutton into line?
International
Up against Angela Merkel, a Social Democrat wants to talk about refugees
Klaus Neumann
25 July 2017
The debate of 2015 is being revived by a candidate for chancellor in September’s election
Books & arts
Selling “new Australians” to old Australians
Maruta Rodan
19 June 2017
Books
| Careful marketing helped ease the arrival of 170,000 migrants from postwar Europe
National affairs
Populism runs up against electoral reality
Rob Hoffman
21 March 2017
Election results in Western Australia and Austria show how unpopular populist policies can be
Books & arts
Picnics and politics
Kate Bagnall
24 January 2014
Chinese-Australian community leaders created a new perception of the Chinese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writes
Kate Bagnall
Essays & reportage
Across the African divide
Ralph Johnstone
12 September 2012
Ralph Johnstone
meets the people at the sharp end of the complex challenges facing young refugees from Africa
Essays & reportage
A death in the rain
Peter Mares
24 September 2010
FROM THE ARCHIVE | This week Fijian fruit-picker Josefa Rauluni died in the Villawood detention centre.
Peter Mares
describes a similar case nearly ten years ago, and how…
National affairs
Almost a decade in limbo for Australia’s longest-serving immigration detainee
Geoffrey Barker
21 May 2010
“Mrs Bao” is still waiting for the Australian government to respond to requests from the Commonwealth ombudsman and the United Nations Human Rights Committee.…
International
Immigration, race and the British election
James Jupp
3 May 2010
Seasoned British election watcher
James Jupp
looks at the role of these emotionally charged issues in the current campaign
National affairs
Immigration’s culture war
Glenn Nicholls
2 November 2008
Detention reform is just the beginning, writes
Glenn Nicholls
. Labor’s immigration minister now has the task of changing the culture of his department