The new Commonwealth office of Multicultural Affairs unveiled
A new Commonwealth Office of Multicultural Affairs has been established within the Department of Home Affairs.
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The penalty for being late is to be doomed forever
Infected by wars and climate change is the other intractable issue: how to help 43 million refugees? More than 3,451 pledges to change the mountain-size misery have been made worldwide by governments, NGOs, and individuals, including Australians. The issue is less about gathering signatures, more about turning words into action.
19 July 2025
12 years on, are we not yet tired of cruel policies towards asylum-seekers?
In Australia, 2025, Progressive Patriotism is now, apparently, our political modus operandi and, as Anthony Albanese ambitiously explained, it can be “a symbol for the globe in how humanity can move forward”.
7 July 2025
Lawsuit aims to end 'systematic' snatching of brown-skinned people by Trump agents
These guys are popping up, rampant all over the city, just taking people randomly, and we want that particular practice to end, one attorney in the case said of Department of Homeland Security agents.
21 June 2025
Australia must turn promising refugee pilots into bold policy to meet the moment
Today, on World Refugee Day 2025, close to one in ten Australians is a refugee or descendant of someone displaced.
20 June 2025
Humanitarian visa processing – Is it who you know, rather than what you know? Part 2
Is this how we want our visa processing system to run?
19 June 2025
Home Affairs and the bleak hole of humanitarian visa processing – Part 1
There is no shortage of evidence – vulnerable women in Afghanistan are in a dire situation as the Taliban continues to advance its stance on gender apartheid.
31 May 2025
Freer movement: Pacific priorities for Labor in its second term
Is the Labor Government going to take aid more seriously, and think more globally, in its second term?
6 May 2025
Incoming immigration minister faces immense challenges
Whoever is appointed immigration minister in the second Albanese Government will face immense challenges from both a policy and political perspective.
4 May 2025
Why extremists see gold in the migration debate
An immigration debate in an era of rising extremism is fertile ground for a noisy minority keen to distort the facts to sell their white Australia.
26 April 2025
Why has there been no discussion of asylum-seekers in this campaign?
Despite it being a perennial topic during Elections this century, neither major party wants to talk about asylum seekers this time around.
15 April 2025
Managing overseas student policy is key to keeping migration numbers in check. If I was immigration minister, Part 2
Ever since Scott Morrison told overseas students to go home at the start of the pandemic and then stomped on the student visa accelerator once the pandemic ended, overseas student numbers have increased and policy has been fraught with constant changes to reduce the inflow of students.
13 April 2025
Good migration policy pays — this is what it looks like
Migration can continue to be a transformative benefit for Australia if it can look past the myths to develop policy that will pay off.
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