Books & Arts
13 July 2018
Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship”
National Affairs
3 July 2018
Donald Trump forgot the most basic lesson of Australia’s detention regime: don’t mention the children
National Affairs
21 June 2018
Will Peter Dutton’s high-stakes gamble wrong-foot the government on tax cuts?
Books & Arts
19 June 2018
Books | Sofija Stefanovic’s laugh-out-loud memoir explores life between homelands
National Affairs
4 June 2018
It’s time to think outside the square on asylum seekers
Correspondents
29 May 2018
The British government’s torment of West Indians links two national fixations: immigration and Europe
International
24 May 2018
Can the Kakuma refugee camp — former home to many Australian Sudanese — complete the transition to a thriving economy?
Essays & Reportage
18 May 2018
Four months after the summer troubles, a reporter heads to Melbourne’s western fringe in search of “African gangs”
National Affairs
11 May 2018
Critics say Australia is running a population-fuelled Ponzi scheme. The data — and Japan’s experience — suggest otherwise
National Affairs
3 May 2018
The likely cut in migration numbers has consequences well outside the home affairs minister’s own portfolio
National Affairs
20 April 2018
Buried in a Treasury report is the data that shows where most of the jobs are going
National Affairs
13 April 2018
How did the target become a ceiling?
Books & Arts
7 April 2018
Books | A remarkable novel by a one-time internee in Australia has attracted critical acclaim in Germany
National Affairs
20 February 2018
Drastically reducing net migration would be neither easy nor wise, says a former senior official
Correspondents
30 January 2018
Urban life is still a fragile aspiration for millions of rural migrants
Books & Arts
16 January 2018
Books | Most people want to live an ethical life, argues Michael Ignatieff in his latest book
Books & Arts
16 January 2018
Books | What can the 1970s and 80s tell us about where we are today?
National Affairs
12 January 2018
With the right team, the next election could bury race-based campaigning once and for all
Books & Arts
8 January 2018
Television | As the debate over violence in Melbourne intensifies, Romper Stomper ups the ante so high it loses touch with reality
International
22 December 2017
As the shape of the new government becomes clearer, Germany’s longest-running police show illuminates the political challenge ahead
Books & Arts
20 December 2017
Candice Breitz’s compelling video installation, and its renaming, has been met with an unsettling silence
International
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
8 December 2017
Parliament’s citizenship register is packed with declarations. Not all of them are terribly illuminating, but that’s not necessarily the fault of the MPs
National Affairs
19 November 2017
Perhaps the most interesting results of the marriage-equality survey were to be seen outside the eastern capitals
National Affairs
13 November 2017
The dual citizenship story is far from over — and perhaps it was Barnaby Joyce who hit the nail on the head
National Affairs
12 November 2017
The Howard government’s resolution of a similar crisis in 2005 points the way
National Affairs
6 November 2017
Malcolm Turnbull could have responded in any of three ways to New Zealand’s offer to resettle refugees. Either of the two alternatives he rejected would have been more just and…
From the archive
3 November 2017
Extract | A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past
National Affairs
3 November 2017
The High Court thinks establishing citizenship is straightforward. Our correspondent thinks otherwise
International
30 October 2017
There are no quick fixes for a crisis like the forced displacement of Myanmar’s Rohingya, but a new collaboration has been preparing the way for an effective regional approach