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National affairs New ways to dud Kiwis Peter Mares 9 April 2014 New Zealand has reacted to proposed changes to Australian social security law by raising discrimination concerns with Canberra, writes Peter Mares 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 Correspondents Will the DREAM of US immigration reform become reality in 2014? Peter Mares 3 January 2014 Optimism is growing, reports Peter Mares in New York, but getting the legislation through Congress will only be the first of the challenges Books & arts Refugees making history Klaus Neumann 9 December 2013 Klaus Neumann reviews two books that put displaced people at the heart of contemporary history

National affairs Immigration’s unanswered questions Peter Mares 3 September 2013 The immigration department is months behind in answering questions from Senate estimate committees – questions that would provide vital information about the… National affairs The deaths on 21 June 2012: WA’s coroner reports Tony Kevin 1 August 2013 Over one hundred people died in the waters between Indonesia and Christmas Island on 21 June 2012 after repeated calls for help. This week’s coroner’s report calls… National affairs Why we would gain from a regional approach to refugee protection Anne McNevin 31 July 2013 What would a sustainable regional approach look like? Anne McNevin outlines the main features – and benefits – of an alternative to the Labor–Coalition… National affairs How to break the people smugglers’ real business model Anne McNevin 25 July 2013 Both the government and the opposition are focusing on the wrong problem, writes Anne McNevin

National affairs Temporary migration is a permanent thing Peter Mares 29 March 2013 There is a debate to be had about 457 visas, but it’s not the one we’ve been having National affairs We know about the 457. What about the 485? Peter Mares 28 March 2013 A different visa category could be the subject of future debates about temporary migration, writes Peter Mares International Caught between homelands Jane McAdam 15 March 2013 If climate change hastens migration in the Pacific, two twentieth-century cases could be useful guides, writes Jane McAdam Books & arts Richer, more contentious, more powerful and more confusing Kerry Brown 13 February 2013 China is changing fast but its greatest challenges remain the same. And at the centre is the blackest of black boxes, writes Kerry Brown