International
14 February 2025
Spooked by the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, Keir Starmer’s Labour government has toughened its border policies
Books & arts
20 November 2024
Two powerful films, a documentary and a feature, offer urgent perspectives on people, place and power
International
1 October 2024
Why have Germans suddenly joined the far right in opposing immigrants?
National affairs
28 August 2024
The opposition leader has an electorally ineffective obsession
National affairs
2 August 2024
Andrew Giles’s record as immigration minister stands up remarkably well
Books & arts
10 May 2024
Under pressure from Canberra to fill the ships, how many “right-wing undesirables” did officials allow on boats to Australia?
Essays & reportage
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
Books & arts
8 May 2023
Who’s in and who’s out in the new Germany?
International
3 December 2022
Our Hamburg-based correspondent scrutinises a much-used term, draws attention to deadly policies and practices, and ends on an optimistic note
Books & arts
17 November 2022
Eighty years apart, a private diary from the Tatura internment camp and dispatches from the Manus detention centre recount the experiences of refugees held prisoner by Australia
Books & arts
18 December 2021
The perceived threat posed by Europe’s postwar “Displaced Persons” helped shape today’s international refugee regime
Essays & reportage
8 December 2021
Has the significance of the Tampa affair been exaggerated?
Essays & reportage
22 November 2021
Is Australia’s international reputation really that bad? And if so, should it matter?
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
17 September 2021
Andrew Chalk pays tribute to lawyer, writer and humanitarian Hal Wootten
National affairs
12 September 2021
John Howard’s response to a single question twenty years ago still reverberates
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
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
29 October 2020
Is the Border Force using unnecessary bouts of Covid-19 isolation as a means of managing detainees at a Melbourne facility?
National affairs
22 October 2020
Will ending Melbourne’s lockdown trigger more of the refugee evictions initiated by the federal government?
International
12 May 2020
Germany’s anti-lockdown protests aren’t only about the coronavirus
Essays & reportage
29 April 2020
Australia’s immensely expensive campaign against people smuggling demonised just one kind of unauthorised arrival
Books & arts
23 March 2020
Television | Stateless points to the dangers of the quest for empathy on the screen
International
17 March 2020
Despite Europe’s failure to rise to the challenge in Greece, the “virus of insolidarity” is still being resisted
International
13 March 2020
As the European Commission swings behind Greece, signs of an alternative Europe are emerging
National affairs
22 November 2019
Our immigration success story didn’t happen by accident — but is it under threat?