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      Strangers in a strange land
    
    
      Sara Dowse 
    
    
      9 July 2020    
    
      Books | Migration is never an easy experience, even if there are laughs along the way
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      A chance to do better for migrants, and for the economy
    
    
      Annabel Brown and Caitlin McCaffrie 
    
    
      25 May 2020    
    
      Covid-19 has exposed the flaws in Australia’s treatment of temporary migrants. Fortunately, a blueprint for change already exists
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Tipping points
    
    
      Klaus Neumann 
    
    
      12 May 2020    
    
      Germany’s anti-lockdown protests aren’t only about the coronavirus
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Labor’s mixed migration message
    
    
      Peter Mares 
    
    
      6 May 2020    
    
      Kristina Keneally has confused an important debate
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      The high price of sovereignty
    
    
      Adam Triggs 
    
    
      4 May 2020    
    
      Those calling for an economically independent Australia neglect to mention the huge costs it would impose on living standards
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Will the world population be in decline within fifty years?
    
    
      Abul Rizvi 
    
    
      4 May 2020    
    
      New UN population projections could be understating the shift in the world’s population prospects
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        Essays & reportage
      
        
      Sending a message to the wrong people
    
    
      Antje Missbach 
    
    
      29 April 2020    
    
      Australia’s immensely expensive campaign against people smuggling demonised just one kind of unauthorised arrival
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Suspended sentence
    
    
      Abul Rizvi 
    
    
      15 April 2020    
    
      Scott Morrison’s “go home” message is bad for hundreds of thousands of temporary residents — and will slow the recovery
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Lives in limbo
    
    
      Abul Rizvi 
    
    
      3 April 2020    
    
      The new JobKeeper allowance holds a gun to the heads of more than a million temporary entrants
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Border deflection
    
    
      John Quiggin 
    
    
      27 March 2020    
    
      The pandemic shows up the weaknesses of nationalism
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        Essays & reportage
      
        
      Game of shells
    
    
      Jeremy Gans 
    
    
      25 March 2020    
    
      How the communists saved Josh Frydenberg
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Getting too close
    
    
      Jane Goodall 
    
    
      23 March 2020    
    
      Television | Stateless points to the dangers of the quest for empathy on the screen
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Of visas and viruses
    
    
      Henry Sherrell and Peter Mares 
    
    
      21 March 2020    
    
      Temporary visa holders play a vital role in healthcare and the economy — and that’s just one reason why the rules need to keep evolving during the current crisis
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      That other virus
    
    
      Klaus Neumann 
    
    
      17 March 2020    
    
      Despite Europe’s failure to rise to the challenge in Greece, the “virus of insolidarity” is still being resisted
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      In defence of Europe
    
    
      Klaus Neumann 
    
    
      13 March 2020    
    
      As the European Commission swings behind Greece, signs of an alternative Europe are emerging
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Anatomy of a broken taboo
    
    
      Klaus Neumann 
    
    
      19 February 2020    
    
      An election in a tiny East German state has reverberated all the way to the top of the country’s politics
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      Was the future better yesterday?
    
    
      Peter Browne 
    
    
      16 February 2020    
    
      What explains the apparent success of populist politics?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Essays & reportage
      
        
      “I don’t want to be one of those absent fathers”
    
    
      Peter Mares 
    
    
      20 December 2019    
    
      How immigration law threatens to split a family
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      White Australia’s hangover
    
    
      Peter Mares 
    
    
      2 December 2019    
    
      Books | A Labor MP offers an optimistic view of what multicultural Australia could become
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Migration policy enters uncharted waters
    
    
      Abul Rizvi 
    
    
      18 October 2019    
    
      New rules mean the government’s migration projections could be seriously wrong
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      The significance of 1 September
    
    
      Klaus Neumann 
    
    
      2 September 2019    
    
      A closely watched election campaign unfolds in an East German state
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      The problem with HILDA
    
    
      Henry Sherrell 
    
    
      2 August 2019    
    
      There’s a risk that Australia’s leading social survey could become stuck in time
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      On the road with the Ladies in Black
    
    
      Sue Milliken 
    
    
      24 July 2019    
    
      Screenings across the world are attracting new friends for Australia, reports the film’s co-writer and producer
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      The remarkable deeds of Captain Rackete
    
    
      Klaus Neumann 
    
    
      12 July 2019    
    
      Has Italy’s far-right interior minister met his match in this young woman with an astonishing impact?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      In for the count
    
    
      Lesley Russell 
    
    
      10 July 2019    
    
      A furore over a proposed question in the 2020 US census could escalate into a constitutional crisis
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      The numbers game
    
    
      Abul Rizvi 
    
    
      26 June 2019    
    
      The federal government’s big-ticket pledges rest on surprising population projections
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Department of dysfunction
    
    
      Abul Rizvi 
    
    
      13 June 2019    
    
      On immigration policy, this is a big-target government
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      The Keneally blunder
    
    
      Peter Brent 
    
    
      4 June 2019    
    
      Will the wrong person be chasing the wrong issues?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      How to be a discriminating voter
    
    
      Jeremy Gans 
    
    
      3 May 2019    
    
      Election 2019 | There’s plenty to keep curious voters — and the High Court — busy in the candidates’ disclosures about their ancestry
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      How migrants’ parents became an election issue
    
    
      Peter Mares 
    
    
      29 April 2019    
    
      Election 2019 | Labor is outbidding the Coalition in an attempt to win the votes of recent migrants
    
  
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