Essays & reportage
8 December 2021
Has the significance of the Tampa affair been exaggerated?
Essays & reportage
22 November 2021
How can we improve Australia’s uneasy engagement with the global human rights system?
Essays & reportage
1 October 2021
The predicament of refugees at the Polish–Belarusian border evokes deportations to Poland in 1938 and a novel published in 1940
Essays & reportage
3 September 2021
Can we use a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic to help us rethink our treatment of refugees?
Essays & reportage
28 August 2021
A fateful stand-off in August 2001 saw Australia’s treatment of boat arrivals shift from deterrence by example to deterrence by force
National affairs
23 August 2021
The prime minister is gripped by myths about asylum seekers that have hardened into articles of faith on both sides of parliament
National affairs
12 August 2021
Twenty years — and many billions of dollars — later, Australia’s failed system of offshore detention lingers on
Books & arts
25 July 2021
Why did French culture matter not only to French migrants but also to colonial Australians?
Essays & reportage
28 May 2021
The pandemic has increased the bargaining power of seasonal workers in rural Australia. But how long will that last?
International
20 April 2021
A Jew in Nazi Germany, a communist in Robert Menzies’s Australia, an Australian in East Germany — the remarkable life of Walter Kaufmann
National affairs
1 April 2021
The national identities ascribed to Australia’s postwar migrants masked a striking diversity of backgrounds and attitudes
Books & arts
1 April 2021
Books | Sheila Fitzpatrick’s new book tells a remarkable cold war migration story
National affairs
3 March 2021
Ever the optimist, Ross Garnaut has a plan for Australia’s economic future
Books & arts
12 February 2021
Books | Despite the discouraging news reaching London, hundreds of women ventured from Britain to the colonies in search of work
International
15 December 2020
A sharp rise in Covid-19 cases shows how a small minority is exercising outsized influence in Germany
Books & arts
9 December 2020
Books | From butterflies to humans, migration is essential and unstoppable
National affairs
7 December 2020
By grossly underestimating the number of Australians stuck overseas, the government is glossing over one of its biggest failures
International
18 November 2020
Black Lives Matter, a princess from Zanzibar and Germany’s “memorial hygiene”
National affairs
22 October 2020
Will ending Melbourne’s lockdown trigger more of the refugee evictions initiated by the federal government?
Books & arts
30 September 2020
Books | The second volume of Dunera Lives profiles eighteen of the “Dunera boys,” each remarkable in his own way
Books & arts
14 August 2020
Books | History reveals an often-fraught relationship between two parts of the British Empire
Essays & reportage
29 July 2020
How one family negotiated identities between different Italies
Books & arts
9 July 2020
Books | Migration is never an easy experience, even if there are laughs along the way
National affairs
25 May 2020
Covid-19 has exposed the flaws in Australia’s treatment of temporary migrants. Fortunately, a blueprint for change already exists
International
12 May 2020
Germany’s anti-lockdown protests aren’t only about the coronavirus
National affairs
6 May 2020
Kristina Keneally has confused an important debate
National affairs
4 May 2020
Those calling for an economically independent Australia neglect to mention the huge costs it would impose on living standards
International
4 May 2020
New UN population projections could be understating the shift in the world’s population prospects
Essays & reportage
29 April 2020
Australia’s immensely expensive campaign against people smuggling demonised just one kind of unauthorised arrival
National affairs
15 April 2020
Scott Morrison’s “go home” message is bad for hundreds of thousands of temporary residents — and will slow the recovery