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migration
Books & arts
It’s hard to put a lid on the world
Klaus Neumann and Karina Horsti
20 December 2017
Candice Breitz’s compelling video installation, and its renaming, has been met with an unsettling silence
International
In the spirit of international solidarity
Klaus Neumann
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
Papers, please!
Jeremy Gans
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
Beyond the Hipster Line
Frank Bongiorno
19 November 2017
Perhaps the most interesting results of the marriage-equality survey were to be seen outside the eastern capitals
National affairs
The hesitators
Jeremy Gans
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
How to avoid a violent end to the Manus Island stand-off
Michael Gordon
12 November 2017
The Howard government’s resolution of a similar crisis in 2005 points the way
National affairs
The cruellest option
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
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
A small cedar box
Brenda Niall
3 November 2017
Extract
| A puzzling gift sends one of Australia’s leading biographers on a journey into her family’s past
National affairs
Another reason I won’t be standing for parliament
Jeremy Gans
3 November 2017
The High Court thinks establishing citizenship is straightforward. Our correspondent thinks otherwise
International
Patient policy-making for a region on the move
Travers McLeod
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
Books & arts
A fine balance
Maruta Rodan
15 October 2017
Books
| Sheila Fitzpatrick brilliantly illuminates her subject and his tumultuous times
International
Italy: the bel paese that lost its way
Tim Colebatch
2 October 2017
Life is still good for many Italians, but bad decisions are deepening the north–south divide
Essays & reportage
A generous man caught in the system
Andrew Dodd
2 August 2017
Living in limbo, his options narrowing, Aziz survives on his wits in the Indonesian capital
Essays & reportage
Making a different kind of history
Peter Mares
28 July 2017
Lunch with the controversial custodian of Australia’s borders, Mike Pezzullo, likely head of the new federal home affairs department
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
National affairs
One census, three stories
Tim Colebatch
5 July 2017
Dig a little deeper, and the figures tell us unexpected things about more than one Australia
National affairs
The department of perverse effects
Peter Mares
16 June 2017
The government’s toughening of citizenship rules would worsen the problems it seeks to tackle
National affairs
Counting the Not Quite Australians
Peter Mares
16 June 2017
New data reveals a growing group of long-term temporary migrants
Essays & reportage
In the name of the people
Rodney Tiffen
27 April 2017
Populists across the globe are united by their claim to speak on behalf of “the people.” It’s rarely enough for lasting electoral success
National affairs
A new class of migrants: the never-to-be-citizens
Henry Sherrell
27 April 2017
The sting in the tail of the new citizenship rules is a wholly unrealistic English-language hurdle
National affairs
The 457 visa is dead! Long live the TSS?
Peter Mares
20 April 2017
The latest changes to temporary migration are more than a rebranding, but they make a complex system even more complicated and are being sold in a way that damages social cohesion
National affairs
Yes, there is such a thing as too much immigration
Tim Colebatch
20 April 2017
Adjusting the intake in response to shifts in employment makes long-term sense
Essays & reportage
They call me Immigration
Omar Mohammed Jack
5 April 2017
From the new book,
They Cannot Take the Sky
, comes the story of Omar Mohammed Jack, who left Sudan when he was seventeen and has spent more than three years in detention
From the archive
An island at the centre of the world
David Hayes
3 March 2017
A Scottish island with links to Australia is a key to the modern world
Essays & reportage
Every town is a Bordertown
Peter Mares
14 December 2016
Near the South Australia–Victoria border, a small community captures the highs and lows of the migration experience
Essays & reportage
Ken Inglis and the Dunera: a seventy-year history
Seumas Spark
12 December 2016
Among the speakers at last month’s conference at Monash University on the work of historian Ken Inglis was
Seumas Spark
, who is working with Ken and the American…
National affairs
Another obstacle on the road to citizenship?
Henry Sherrell & Peter Mares & Anna Boucher
9 December 2016
Making migrants “provisional” risks Australia’s multicultural success
Essays & reportage
Land of milk and honey
Kerry Ryan
8 December 2016
Two men, two legs, two stories…
Essays & reportage
The plight of the Right
John Edwards
5 December 2016
Reality fails to align with theory in a new conservative analysis of what makes Australia exceptional
From the archive
Once were a weird mob
Brett Evans
11 November 2016
How one of Britain’s greatest directors transferred John O’Grady’s sharply observed comic novel to the screen
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