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refugees
Correspondents
The significance of 1 September
Klaus Neumann
2 September 2019
A closely watched election campaign unfolds in an East German state
Correspondents
The remarkable deeds of Captain Rackete
Klaus Neumann
12 July 2019
Has Italy’s far-right interior minister met his match in this young woman with an astonishing impact?
National affairs
Department of dysfunction
Abul Rizvi
13 June 2019
On immigration policy, this is a big-target government
National affairs
The Keneally blunder
Peter Brent
4 June 2019
Will the wrong person be chasing the wrong issues?
Essays & reportage
Languages of resistance
Sylvia Martin
22 April 2019
In different countries at different times, two prisoners used poetry to communicate their experiences
National affairs
Malcolm Fraser’s real mistake
Judith Betts
12 April 2019
Contemporary records show that Australia didn’t adequately assist refugees admitted during the Lebanese civil war
Essays & reportage
The Liberal nonconformist from Sydney’s west
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
Rethinking Australia’s borders
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
Explaining the unexplained at Home 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
Votes by the boatload?
Peter Brent
18 February 2019
Don’t bet on it: experience suggests that asylum seekers won’t be the deciding factor in May
Essays & reportage
What we owe the refugees on Manus
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
Past meets present in a Berlin refugee camp
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
Why Labor should break the refugee deadlock
Peter Mares
25 October 2018
The opposition should swallow Scott Morrison’s bitter pill. But it also needs a longer-term plan
Correspondents
The island making everyone crazy
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
Cutting through
Sophie Black
3 July 2018
Donald Trump forgot the most basic lesson of Australia’s detention regime: don’t mention the children
National affairs
Beyond the morally indefensible status quo
Peter Brent
4 June 2018
It’s time to think outside the square on asylum seekers
International
Dispelling the myth of dependency
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
Small world
Peter Brent
28 March 2018
Would a stronger prime minister pull Peter Dutton into line?
Books & arts
Operation Sovereign Borders: a prehistory
Jeff Crisp
16 January 2018
Books
| What can the 1970s and 80s tell us about where we are today?
National affairs
Peter Dutton for prime minister!
Peter Brent
12 January 2018
With the right team, the next election could bury race-based campaigning once and for all
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
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…
National affairs
The myth that grips a nation
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
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
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
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
International
The globalisation of indifference
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
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