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
Correspondents
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?
Correspondents
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
Correspondents
17 March 2020
Despite Europe’s failure to rise to the challenge in Greece, the “virus of insolidarity” is still being resisted
Correspondents
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?
National Affairs
23 October 2019
The figures reveal a less than stellar performance in the state that most disappointed Labor
Correspondents
2 September 2019
A closely watched election campaign unfolds in an East German state
Correspondents
12 July 2019
Has Italy’s far-right interior minister met his match in this young woman with an astonishing impact?
National Affairs
13 June 2019
On immigration policy, this is a big-target government
National Affairs
4 June 2019
Will the wrong person be chasing the wrong issues?
Essays & Reportage
22 April 2019
In different countries at different times, two prisoners used poetry to communicate their experiences
National Affairs
12 April 2019
Contemporary records show that Australia didn’t adequately assist refugees admitted during the Lebanese civil war
From the archive
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
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
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
18 February 2019
Don’t bet on it: experience suggests that asylum seekers won’t be the deciding factor in May