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National Affairs Abul Rizvi 13 June 2019 On immigration policy, this is a big-target government
National Affairs Peter Brent | Mumble 4 June 2019 Will the wrong person be chasing the wrong issues? Essays & Reportage Sylvia Martin 22 April 2019 In different countries at different times, two prisoners used poetry to communicate their experiences National Affairs Judith Betts 12 April 2019 Contemporary records show that Australia didn’t adequately assist refugees admitted during the Lebanese civil war From the archive Robert Milliken 16 March 2019 Craig Laundy has announced he won’t be seeking another term in federal parliament. Inside Story caught up with him in September 2015
Essays & Reportage Genevieve Lloyd 27 February 2019 Read together, Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains and the Uluru Statement challenge us to look differently at national boundaries
National Affairs Asher Hirsch 19 February 2019 The PM says Hakeem al-Araibi will be a citizen very soon, but a new audit office report reveals why most refugees are waiting so long for citizenship National Affairs Peter Brent | Mumble 18 February 2019 Don’t bet on it: experience suggests that asylum seekers won’t be the deciding factor in May From the archive Anne McNevin 30 January 2019 Anne McNevin reviews Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains, which this week won both the Non-Fiction Prize and the Victorian Prize for Literature at the 2019… Correspondents Tom Bamforth 14 November 2018 A visit to a refugee camp in a conservative district of Berlin reveals successful efforts to understand and accommodate
National Affairs Peter Mares 25 October 2018 The opposition should swallow Scott Morrison’s bitter pill. But it also needs a longer-term plan
Correspondents Nic Maclellan 24 September 2018 Nauru’s government tried to restrict journalists covering this month’s Pacific Islands Forum, but only highlighted the desperate state of refugees living on the island, and… National Affairs Sophie Black 3 July 2018 Donald Trump forgot the most basic lesson of Australia’s detention regime: don’t mention the children National Affairs Peter Brent | Mumble 4 June 2018 It’s time to think outside the square on asylum seekers International Xan Rice 24 May 2018 Can the Kakuma refugee camp — former home to many Australian Sudanese — complete the transition to a thriving economy?
National Affairs Peter Brent | Mumble 28 March 2018 Would a stronger prime minister pull Peter Dutton into line?
Books & Arts Jeff Crisp 16 January 2018 Books | What can the 1970s and 80s tell us about where we are today? National Affairs Peter Brent | Mumble 12 January 2018 With the right team, the next election could bury race-based campaigning once and for all Books & Arts Klaus Neumann and Karina Horsti 20 December 2017 Candice Breitz’s compelling video installation, and its renaming, has been met with an unsettling silence National Affairs Michael Gordon 12 November 2017 The Howard government’s resolution of a similar crisis in 2005 points the way
National Affairs 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…
National Affairs Peter Browne 1 November 2017 Australia’s offshore detention system hasn’t just been devastating for its victims, it’s also been bad for the Coalition and Labor International 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 Essays & Reportage Andrew Dodd 2 August 2017 Living in limbo, his options narrowing, Aziz survives on his wits in the Indonesian capital Essays & Reportage 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 Klaus Neumann 25 July 2017 The debate of 2015 is being revived by a candidate for chancellor in September’s election
National Affairs Henry Sherrell 27 April 2017 The sting in the tail of the new citizenship rules is a wholly unrealistic English-language hurdle International Klaus Neumann 24 April 2017 Despite ambiguities of meaning and history, the Pope’s reference to concentration camps makes a forceful point about our attentiveness Essays & Reportage 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 National Affairs Sam Tyrer 2 November 2016 The Bali Process on forced migration made progress this year, but will governments implement its recommendations?