17 Dec 2025 A beautiful mosaic: celebrating multicultural Australia
Jocelyn Chey 10 Dec 2025 2025 in Review: immigration policy turns back toward dog whistles and drift
Abul Rizvi 6 Dec 2025 Refugees aren’t politically progressive by default – and policy needs to catch up
Ko Ko Aung 5 Dec 2025 Fear versus facts: why migrants strengthen Australia
Mainul Haque 21 Nov 2025 Assessing the Liberal Party's policy-making capacity
Michael Keating 21 Nov 2025 The shadow of the Tampa
Julie Macken 19 Nov 2025 Migration myths
Ian McAuley 14 Nov 2025 As Australia welcomes its millionth refugee, its hardline border policies endure. We can lead by example again
Daniel Ghezelbash, Jane McAdam 7 Nov 2025 Australia’s fragile multicultural consensus under threat
Wanning Sun 4 Nov 2025 When will immigration return to 'normal'?
Jane O'Sullivan 3 Nov 2025 The pearling past and the multicultural present: A story of connection and contribution
Mainul Haque 30 Oct 2025 The morality we need, the asylum they seek
Duncan Graham 29 Oct 2025 Why the Coalition can’t win without losing itself
Kos Samaras 27 Oct 2025 On No Kings day, a new America came to life
Robert C. Koehler 21 Oct 2025 The migration debate in Australia
Michael Keating 18 Oct 2025 Paper walls at Thailand’s border
Ko Ko Aung 16 Oct 2025 Reuniting families: reforming Australia’s approach
Saffron Williams 25 Sep 2025 The perfect storm: Why immigration has become the scapegoat for our age of crisis
Alan Gamlen 24 Sep 2025 ‘Release the tapes’: Lawmakers demand answers over alleged US$50,000 bribe of Trump border czar Tom Homan
Jon Queally 12 Sep 2025 The retreat of social democracy and the rise of the hard right
Stewart Sweeney 11 Sep 2025 A good captain can stop this Senator’s social cohesion ‘Titanic’
Carl Gopalkrishnan 10 Sep 2025 Courts brace for next wave of 'sovereign citizens'
Andrew Fraser 9 Sep 2025 'Like us': Australia’s uneasy dance with immigration
Raghid Nahhas 8 Sep 2025 The speech we are still waiting for Anthony Albanese to deliver
David O'Halloran 7 Sep 2025 The good, the bad and the stupid
Kosmos Samaras 6 Sep 2025 People dumping in the Pacific
Frank Brennan 5 Sep 2025 Neo-Nazis and racist rallies: why it’s important the Australian media call them for what they are
Denis Muller 4 Sep 2025 Australia should halt plan to deport refugees, migrants to Nauru
Annabel Hennessy 22 Aug 2025 Cancelling the ethnic cleansers: Australia revokes Simcha Rothman’s visa
Binoy Kampmark 29 Jul 2025 The new Commonwealth office of Multicultural Affairs unveiled
Peter Hughes 25 Jul 2025 The penalty for being late is to be doomed forever
Duncan Graham 19 Jul 2025 12 years on, are we not yet tired of cruel policies towards asylum-seekers?
Sophie Singh 7 Jul 2025 Lawsuit aims to end 'systematic' snatching of brown-skinned people by Trump agents
Brett Wilkins 21 Jun 2025 Australia must turn promising refugee pilots into bold policy to meet the moment
Steph Cousins 20 Jun 2025 Humanitarian visa processing – Is it who you know, rather than what you know? Part 2
Barb Durance 19 Jun 2025 Home Affairs and the bleak hole of humanitarian visa processing – Part 1
Barb Durance 31 May 2025 Freer movement: Pacific priorities for Labor in its second term
Stephen Howes 6 May 2025 Incoming immigration minister faces immense challenges
Abul Rizvi 4 May 2025 Why extremists see gold in the migration debate
Josh Roose 26 Apr 2025 Why has there been no discussion of asylum-seekers in this campaign?
Abul Rizvi 15 Apr 2025 Managing overseas student policy is key to keeping migration numbers in check. If I was immigration minister, Part 2
Abul Rizvi 13 Apr 2025 Good migration policy pays — this is what it looks like
Alan Gamlen 10 Apr 2025 If I was immigration minister, I would develop a population plan
Abul Rizvi 2 Apr 2025 Immigration policy and the federal election
Abul Rizvi 30 Mar 2025 Four key myths that manufacture an immigration 'crisis'
Fethi Mansouri, Amanuel Elias 25 Mar 2025 Devaluing Australian citizenship
Peter Hughes 12 Mar 2025 Australian immigration and the federal election
Peter Hughes 12 Feb 2025 Denigrating refugees: Media Watch is no exception
Peter Job 26 Jan 2025 A Home For M
Jane Salmon 17 Dec 2024 European deportation of Syrian refugees - a sign of the times
Xiaochen Su 10 Dec 2024 Offshore people dumping by a spooked government
Frank Brennan 8 Dec 2024 “Barn of Broken Doors”: Nauru poet deplores offshore detention
Mohammed Salamat 5 Dec 2024 “The elephant in the room”: the refugee status determination process
Graeme Swincer 3 Dec 2024 ‘Dark day for humanity’ as Australia chooses cruelty in Migration Bill changes
Sandy Watson 26 Nov 2024 Why oppose the latest deportation and surveillance Bill proposal
Jane Salmon 14 Nov 2024 Addressing harms caused by Australia’s response to ‘Slavery’
Elena Jeffreys 12 Nov 2024 Dutton's failure on border protection
Abul Rizvi 3 Nov 2024 The politics of appeal and the asymmetrical valuing of lives
Angela Smith 30 Oct 2024 Jason Clare is wrong on net migration and student caps
Abul Rizvi 7 Oct 2024 Australia's unfinished multiculturalism
Allan Patience 8 Sep 2024 Not all deaths at sea are equal
Dave Kellaway 7 Sep 2024 Unsuccessful asylum seekers now exceed those at primary and AAT stages
Abul Rizvi 4 Sep 2024 Record numbers of temporary graduates in immigration limbo
Abul Rizvi 31 Aug 2024 Dutton’s Trumpian certainties are swamping Albanese’s dithering
Paul Begley 24 Aug 2024 Dutton, racism and electoral popularity
George Browning 22 Aug 2024 Australia has always found a way to bring in people from conflict zones
Peter Hughes 7 Aug 2024 Do 84 percent of overseas students go home?
Abul Rizvi 25 Jul 2024 Republican immigration policies foretell mass deportations, tent cities and razor wire
Abul Rizvi 18 Jul 2024 Net movement of Australian Citizens reverses in 2023-24
Abul Rizvi 31 May 2024 Dutton’s abysmal record on immigration integrity
Abul Rizvi 29 May 2024 No Minister, high immigration will cost us $320 billion
Geoff Davies 27 May 2024 Immigration removal legislation: put away the sledgehammer
Peter Hughes 25 May 2024 Dutton’s ignorant, incompetent policies contradicted by evidence
Michael Keating 25 May 2024 Dutton’s migration cuts on parents, health workers, risks massive backlash from Australia’s migrant community
Abul Rizvi 25 May 2024 Poisonous immigration debate treats women like grazing cattle
Lucy Hamilton 24 May 2024 Cartoon commentary
Geoff Pryor 18 May 2024 The immigration debate: smoke, mirrors and a dash of xenophobia
Abul Rizvi 11 May 2024 Budget to be used as a smoke screen for Migration Bill passage through Senate?
Jane Salmon 6 May 2024 On his 34th birthday, refugee offers the gift of life
Jane Salmon 22 Apr 2024 Major acceleration in processing of asylum seekers
Abul Rizvi 1 Apr 2024 Why are Chinese backpackers required to sit an English Test while Taiwanese backpackers are not?
Abul Rizvi 29 Mar 2024 The real reason Labor is rushing through immigration powers
Abul Rizvi 29 Mar 2024 Nightmare of deportation: Labor tries on Dutton’s racist jackboots
Jane Salmon 26 Mar 2024 Overcoming the national tendency to blame migrants for all our woes
Jane Salmon 25 Mar 2024 Why we shouldn’t believe the Institute of Public Affairs
Abul Rizvi 20 Mar 2024 In 2022-23, onshore asylum seekers were 33% less than under Peter Dutton
Abul Rizvi 13 Mar 2024 The future of Australia’s overseas student program
Abul Rizvi 7 Mar 2024 What happened to net migration in January 2024
Abul Rizvi 5 Mar 2024 Is Dan Tehan confused about immigration levels?
Abul Rizvi 3 Mar 2024 Furious and fit: refugee virtual walk encircles Australia in half the time
Sandy Watson 29 Feb 2024 A little support instead of billions on toxic cruelty
Lucy Hamilton 29 Feb 2024 Jewish Council of Australia urges the Australian government to reject racism against Palestinian people fleeing persecution in Gaza
Jewish Council of Australia 23 Feb 2024 Two boats and hysteria is unleashed
John Queripel 22 Feb 2024 Dutton oversaw largest rise in asylum applications in history. They came by air
Abul Rizvi 21 Feb 2024 Permanent and long-term movements continue at high levels
Abul Rizvi 16 Feb 2024 Weathering the storm: support for multiculturalism resists politicians’ frenzied divisiveness
Noel Turnbull 7 Feb 2024 What’s happening with covid visa holders?
Abul Rizvi 3 Feb 2024 Restricting onshore student visa hopping – harder than it looks
Abul Rizvi 31 Jan 2024 Time running out for Albanese Government to fix asylum system
Abul Rizvi 24 Jan 2024 Reviving Australian Citizenship: What the government needs to do
Peter Hughes 23 Jan 2024 Tide turning on boat people bastardry
Jack Waterford 18 Jan 2024 If immigration must stay in Home Affairs, here's how to fix the agency
Abul Rizvi 9 Dec 2023 From Vietnam to Australia, a refugee doctor’s journey
Ian Webster 8 Dec 2023 Mandrake
Geoff Pryor 30 Nov 2023 Suffer the little children to come unto me…
John Menadue 28 Nov 2023 Hysteria: Putting the 12 asylum seeker boat arrivals into context
Abul Rizvi 21 Nov 2023 Use of immigration detention needs to be dramatically curtailed
Peter Hughes 14 Nov 2023 Judicial activism overturns years of inhumane cruelty on immigration detention
Jack Waterford 14 Nov 2023 Have primary asylum applications peaked?
Abul Rizvi 10 Nov 2023 High court launches full frontal assault on indefinite immigration detention
Mary Crock 2 Nov 2023 Record asylum caseload at Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)
Abul Rizvi 10 Oct 2023 Albanese government addresses coalition-era asylum seekers surge
Abul Rizvi 6 Oct 2023 Australia's Department of Home Affairs announced a landmark Refugee Advisory Panel - but there's a catch
Missing Perspectives 5 Oct 2023 Department of Home Affairs contradicts every sensible principle of organisation design
Patrick Gourley 29 Sep 2023 Assange extradition: “something you might expect from a totalitarian regime”
John Jiggens 29 Sep 2023 Pezzullo departure should end the Home Affairs experiment
Abul Rizvi 28 Sep 2023 What the forthcoming migration strategy won’t address
Abul Rizvi 20 Sep 2023 Asylum seekers from Pacific Island Nations
Abul Rizvi 18 Sep 2023 Refugee goes on long walk to take Australia on a journey
Sumitra Vignaendra 12 Sep 2023 Will number of temporary entrants in Australia continue to rise?
Abul Rizvi 7 Sep 2023 A new national agenda for multicultural Australia
Con Pagonis 30 Aug 2023 Toothless tiger: Human Rights Committee sits helplessly on the sidelines
Greg Barns 26 Aug 2023 Mass killings of Ethiopian migrants by Saudi Arabia at Yemen border may amount to crimes against humanity
Human Rights Watch 15 Aug 2023 Australian multiculturalism: Our greatest achievement?
John Menadue 4 Aug 2023 The other war: Struggle and suffering in Sudan
Priti Gulati Cox, Stan Cox 28 Jul 2023 Offshore refugee processing funding allegations: How did we get here?
Peter Hughes 25 Jul 2023 Prison hulks and river blades: fortress building in the climate-castrophe era
Lucy Hamilton 23 Jul 2023 Australia’s immoral asylum policies
Roderick St George 19 Jul 2023 Treasury’s net migration forecasts and the ‘big Australia’ furore?
Abul Rizvi 12 Jul 2023 Donald Trump Junior vs Novak Djokovic: A tale of two visas
Abul Rizvi 26 Jun 2023 Asylum seekers – Labor’s Achillies heel
Abul Rizvi 13 Jun 2023 Can the Pacific Engagement Visa deliver positive outcomes?
Abul Rizvi 1 Jun 2023 Have we turned a corner on growth in asylum applications?
Abul Rizvi 28 May 2023 Short-changed: how to stop the exploitation of migrant workers in Australia
Grattan Institute, Brendan Coates, Trent Wiltshire, Tyler Reysenbach 26 May 2023 Migration policy and modern slavery: no sex worker left behind?
Elena Jeffreys 24 May 2023 On borrowed time: Pezzullo proves he does not understand immigration
Abul Rizvi 19 May 2023 Are we on track for net migration of 400,000 in 2022-23?
Abul Rizvi 13 May 2023 What should we make of the 2023-24 Migration Program planning levels?
Abul Rizvi 9 May 2023 Is Treasury driving the ‘Big Australia’ debate?
Abul Rizvi 5 May 2023 A women-led long fight against Malaysia's discriminatory citizenship laws
Wong Kai Hui 3 May 2023 Will Labor restore immigration compliance activity?
Abul Rizvi 2 May 2023 Parkinson immigration review: very good as far as it goes
Peter Hughes 27 Apr 2023 Direct access to Australian citizenship for New Zealanders is a good thing
Peter Hughes 26 Apr 2023 Why provide a faster pathway to Australian Citizenship for NZ Citizens?
Abul Rizvi 23 Apr 2023 Grotesque Dutton drums up another pedophilia crisis
Lucy Hamilton 22 Apr 2023 What to look for in a Migration Strategy
Abul Rizvi 21 Apr 2023 The AAT: abolishing a system of indefinite torment
Lucy Hamilton 20 Apr 2023 How to go about achieving better immigration policy and decision-making
Peter Hughes 3 Apr 2023 Why was there a blow out in net migration?
Abul Rizvi 21 Mar 2023 Asylum cases in Australia for first time exceed 100,000
Abul Rizvi 10 Mar 2023 Independent occupational shortage body for employer sponsored visas would not work
Abul Rizvi 28 Feb 2023 How will we know the migration system has been fixed?
Abul Rizvi 21 Feb 2023 No basis for temporary protection visa scare mongering
Peter Hughes 15 Feb 2023 Asylum Seeker policy: compromise has finally led to decency
Frank Brennan 14 Feb 2023 Overseas student policy: too important to get wrong
Abul Rizvi 14 Feb 2023 Syria under the American whip: sanctions that kill
The Cradle's Syria Correspondent 5 Feb 2023 Australia needs a royal commission into immigration detention
Michael Dudley, Louise Newman 1 Feb 2023 Legacy boat arrivals: Is a decade of policy paralysis about to be addressed?
Abul Rizvi 17 Jan 2023 Are allegations of bogus asylum claims valid?
Abul Rizvi 10 Jan 2023 Interpreting Treasury’s latest population statement (Part 1)
Abul Rizvi 29 Dec 2022 World gives cold shoulder to people from Gaza
Amjad Ayman 6 Dec 2022 Australia excoriated over refusal to allow UN torture committee to visit places of detention
Spencer Zifcak 4 Dec 2022 UK chaos: Hong Kong emigrants duped by false prospectus
Grenville Cross 3 Dec 2022 Overseas students visa criteria – a new approach needed
Abul Rizvi 18 Nov 2022 Denying trafficking not the way to protect the Asylum system
Abul Rizvi 16 Nov 2022 The Australian immigration system is broken. Who knew? Who cared?
Peter Hughes 15 Nov 2022 Abuse of Australia’s asylum system grinds on
Abul Rizvi 12 Nov 2022 A migration system for Australia’s future
Abul Rizvi 4 Nov 2022 Is the Pacific Engagement Visa Australia’s first climate change humanitarian visa?
Abul Rizvi 31 Oct 2022 The link between immigration and recessions
Abul Rizvi 31 Oct 2022 On immigration integrity, the Labor government must not fail
Beverly Holmes Brown 20 Oct 2022 How will our stretched housing market cope with surging immigration?
Abul Rizvi 20 Oct 2022 Bringing Australian children here from Syrian refugee camps is just the start
Kim Oates 17 Oct 2022 COVID-19 border policies strengthen Japan’s Insular mindset
John Menadue 12 Oct 2022 Repatriation of Muslim families from Syrian camp
Frances Letters 8 Oct 2022 Massive shortage of early childhood teachers demands skilled migration reform
Abul Rizvi 7 Oct 2022 Liberal candidate supports US-style abortion ban ahead of state poll
Lucy Hamilton 2 Oct 2022 Death penalty: Singapore's ongoing killing spree
Sara Kowal 28 Sep 2022 Pro-population increase advocates blind to sustainability crisis
Stephen Williams 23 Sep 2022 Asylum Seeker Policy – Where to now?
Abul Rizvi 22 Sep 2022 Shocked by London, bored by Singapore, expats return to Hong Kong
David Rothnie 21 Sep 2022 UN report on Xinjiang is depressing in more ways than one
Ronny Tong 15 Sep 2022 Immigration Inquiry - A new beginning?
Arja Keski-Nummi 15 Sep 2022 Is Hong Kong experiencing a ‘Teacher Exodus’? Time to correct the record
Richard Cullen 5 Sep 2022 Asylum seekers languish through the job summit
Lucy Hamilton 3 Sep 2022 Impact of increasing the permanent skilled migration intake
Brendan Coates, Tyler Reysenbach 28 Jul 2022 International accountability: Myanmar, the ICJ and the genocide question
Binoy Kampmark 23 Jul 2022 The inexcusable "Immigration Refugee Determination" assessment system requires a deep clean
Aileen Crowe 16 Jul 2022 Peter Hughes: Albanese is right to give New Zealanders a fairer go
Peter Hughes 12 Jul 2022 Once were mates or a relationship reset?
James Bennett 11 Jul 2022 Asylum seekers in Indonesia-alive, but not living
Duncan Graham 30 Jun 2022 Partner visas – another Dutton scandal
Abul Rizvi 22 Jun 2022 Tripartite bargain on Immigration Policy
Abul Rizvi 14 May 2022 Morrison Government’s high risk visa switch for migrant meatworkers
Abul Rizvi 2 May 2022 Fixing Immigration: five things an incoming Labor government could do
Peter Hughes 21 Apr 2022 The repeated lie that Morrison stopped the boats. An updated repost from March 11, 2021
John Menadue 20 Apr 2022 Kenny Stancil: Copycat Cruelty - The Australian solution - Britain to send refugees to Rwanda
John Menadue 11 Apr 2022 The cry of refugees
Frank Brennan 29 Mar 2022 Home affairs misleads Senate on Djokovic case
Abul Rizvi 26 Mar 2022 A refugee deal with NZ after nine years of cruelty
Greg Barns 27 Feb 2022 How many refugees will drown at Bhasan Char in Bangladesh?
Jason Middleton 25 Jan 2022 Smoke and mirrors: Afghans neglected in Australia's humanitarian program
Abul Rizvi 22 Jan 2022 Long-term immigration detention has again become a pointless exercise in cruelty
Peter Hughes 21 Jan 2022 The torture of asylum seekers has twisted our perceptions of right and wrong
Roderick St George 20 Jan 2022 Djokovic case highlights need for change in how we check vaccination status
Abul Rizvi 14 Jan 2022 Don't tangle with Border Force? Lessons from the Djokovic mess
Paul Malone 13 Jan 2022 Save the Kabul Peace House, save the people of Afghanistan
Mark Isaacs 8 Jan 2022 What a shambles: a tangled net for Scott Morrison and Novak Djokovic
John Menadue 6 Jan 2022 Whether running immigration or being PM, Morrison fiddles the books
Abul Rizvi 20 Dec 2021 Australia's incoherent visa system needs urgent repair
Abul Rizvi 19 Dec 2021 Jailed Danish politician exemplifies growing anti-refugee populism
Binoy Kampmark 9 Dec 2021 The West helped create the conditions that force asylum seekers to cross the Channel
Patrick Cockburn 6 Dec 2021 Our migration program: many questions with no answers
Abul Rizvi 2 Dec 2021 A bitter fruit: wage slavery is alive and well in Australian heartland
Barbara Kelly 9 Nov 2021 Government's brazen disregard for non-discriminatory migration program
Abul Rizvi 22 Oct 2021 Australia has a moral duty to the people of Afghanistan
Barat Ali Batoor 12 Oct 2021 The overseas student and immigration nexus: Where to now?
Abul Rizvi 5 Oct 2021 Asylum seeker scam continues to drive down migrant workers' rights
Abul Rizvi 14 Sep 2021 Reaching 80% vaccination isn't the same for all communities. The vulnerable will continue to suffer.
Andrew Jakubowicz 8 Sep 2021 In Afghanistan, even good news stories raise questions about government failure
Peter Church 30 Aug 2021 Crocodile tears by Morrison over plight of Afghans
Bruce Haigh 30 Aug 2021 The Americanisation of Australia's agriculture labour market
Abul Rizvi 30 Aug 2021 Bad laws, not lawyers, lead to injustice: a response to Stuart Rees
Julian Burnside 26 Aug 2021 Afghan Refugees and the Tampa: will we be cruel again?
Frances Letters 20 Aug 2021 Too little, too late: Morrison's Afghanistan failures
Abul Rizvi 16 Aug 2021 Is Australia’s grand experiment in multiculturalism failing us all?
Allan Patience 27 Jul 2021 Dutton's and Pezzullo’s citizenship hypocrisy
Abul Rizvi 15 Jul 2021 The fraying of judicial nerves in migration cases
Frank Brennan 13 Jul 2021 Immigrant conundrums: parents, visas and Australian Citizenship during the pandemic
Reshmi Lahiri-Roy, Anindita Banerjee 1 Jul 2021 The "problem" with boat people
Kim Huynh 28 Jun 2021 The High Court’s surrender to the Morrison-Dutton immigration detention regime
Frank Brennan 18 Jun 2021 The Sri Lankan family – just a case of bloody mindedness. A repost from 2019.
Peter Hughes 18 Jun 2021 Immigration: language of cruelty or words for humanity
Stuart Rees 18 Jun 2021 An Agricultural Visa Would Change Australian Society – for the worse
Abul Rizvi 17 Jun 2021 Moral bankruptcy and cruelty in the treatment of the Biloela Family.
John Menadue 16 Jun 2021 Blink and the boats will restart the Government says, but that is nonsense
Abul Rizvi 15 Jun 2021 Denial as policy, the Tamil Biloela family.
Stuart Rees 14 Jun 2021 Australia's facile immigration policy debate
Abul Rizvi 11 Jun 2021 The Tamil family: cruelty beggars belief
Stuart Rees 6 Jun 2021 Urgent action needed on escalating forced migration crises
Travers McLeod 23 May 2021 The Budget falsely claims to make health insurance cheaper through lower premium rebates
Charles Maskell-Knight 10 May 2021 New Ministers Andrews/Hawke keen to make their mark on asylum seeker debate
Abul Rizvi 27 Apr 2021 Reflections on those left behind in detention
Sarah Dale 26 Apr 2021 Australia's cruelty to refugees: which legal 'straw' might break the camel's back?
Max Costello 13 Apr 2021 Asylum policy in UK and Australia – a tale of two nations
Abul Rizvi 2 Apr 2021 Proposed English language testing of Australian sponsors and partners
Abul Rizvi 1 Apr 2021 UK introduces Australian-style asylum system
Colin Chapman 30 Mar 2021 An immigration agenda for new home affairs minister Andrews
Abul Rizvi 3 Mar 2021 So many questions for Home Affairs
Abul Rizvi 19 Jan 2021 Australia's 'rule of law' system leaves millions unprotected: Part 2
Max Costello 18 Jan 2021 Australia’s ‘rule of law system’ leaves millions unprotected: Part 1
Max Costello 29 Dec 2020 Replacing Cruelty to Refugees with Aspirations from 1948
Stuart Rees 8 Dec 2020 We have lost our way on immigration and multiculturalism
Stephen FitzGerald 8 Dec 2020 Immigration detention in 2020: don’t look away
Ed Santow 26 Nov 2020 Scott Morrison, where are you? Eight years is too long
Robyn Read 22 Nov 2020 Biden plans to reopen America to refugees after Trump slashed admissions (NPR Nov 11, 2020)
NPR 17 Nov 2020 Will President-elect Biden restore US leadership on refugees?
Frank Brennan 1 Nov 2020 Chris Sidoti. Will I go back to Mass?
Chris Sidoti 23 Oct 2020 Home Affairs is too heavy handed to handle immigration
Neville Roach 19 Oct 2020 Migration in reverse in September 2020
Abul Rizvi 14 Oct 2020 Migrants: how can we make THEM more like US?
Peter Hughes 13 Oct 2020 Why Was Immigration Compliance Activity Tanking Pre-Covid?
Abul Rizvi 7 Oct 2020 Amnesty for Undocumented Workers
Abul Rizvi 20 Sep 2020 Australian multiculturalism is a success story: it is time to enshrine it as our shared value
Jieh-Yung Lo 18 Sep 2020 Forecast of 2020-21 Migration and Humanitarian Program
Abul Rizvi 11 Sep 2020 "Help!" trumpets the elephant, "I'm being bullied by a mouse."
Max Costello 19 Aug 2020 Temporary Entrants Continue to ‘Go Home’ in July 2020
Abul Rizvi 28 Jul 2020 Australia can't rely on overseas migration anymore Mr. Treasurer
Abul Rizvi 23 Jul 2020 Covid Driving Down Onshore Asylum Applications
Abul Rizvi 23 Jul 2020 Prospects for refugees and migrants if the population bomb goes bust
Kevin Bain 19 Jul 2020 Issues with the Chinese diaspora’s political participation
Wanning Sun 1 Jul 2020 Multicultural Australia in danger in resurgent pandemic. Part 2 What we know but need to know more about and why.
Andrew Jakubowicz 30 Jun 2020 Multicultural Australia in danger in resurgent pandemic. Part 1: The problem
Andrew Jakubowicz 26 Jun 2020 What is to be done about the Chinese in Oz?
Chek Ling 23 Jun 2020 The Plight of Yezidi Refugees and why my heart bleeds
Lydia Gitau 23 Jun 2020 Can we rely on the PM’s forecast economic boom?
Abul Rizvi 22 Jun 2020 ANDREW JAKUBOWICZ. Is Australia a racist nation? Reflections on the last 25 years of denial - Part 1 of Racism Series
John Menadue 19 Jun 2020 Population ageing in Australia and Japan
Abul Rizvi 30 May 2020 ABUL RIZVI. Global Talent Independent Visa: Permanent residence in a week or two
Abul Rizvi 11 May 2020 ABUL RIZVI: Australia’s struggles with skilled temporary migration
Abul Rizvi 10 Mar 2020 MICHELLE PETERIE.-The human cost of forced relocation of immigration detainees.(The Conversation 2.3.2020)
John Menadue 24 Feb 2020 The travesty of Detention Centre health care
Max Costello 12 Feb 2020 ABUL RIZVI. Morrison impotent on visa arrangements for Indonesians
Abul Rizvi 30 Jan 2020 ABUL RIZVI. The Australian again falls for Government spin on the record number of asylum seekers arriving by air.
Abul Rizvi 28 Jan 2020 ABUL RIZVI: Why 5% unemployment today is not the same as 5% unemployment 10-20 years ago
Abul Rizvi 24 Jan 2020 VACY VLAZNA. On Becoming Australian: A Migrant Story, Part 2
John Menadue 1 Jan 2020 FRANCES RUSH: Reflections on the year for people seeking asylum
John Menadue 31 Dec 2019 ARTHUR SING.- Thailand also cruelly treats asylum seekers. It has it's own Black Hole of Calcutta.
John Menadue 12 Dec 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Re-emergence of Dodgy VET Colleges
Abul Rizvi 10 Dec 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Dysfunction in Home Affairs officially confirmed
Abul Rizvi 4 Dec 2019 ABUL RIZVI. A Cruel Government Setting Regional Migrants Up for Exploitation and Failure
Abul Rizvi 3 Dec 2019 MADELINE GLEESON. Behrouz Boochani: Still in limbo (The Interpreter 28-11-19)
John Menadue 2 Dec 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Asylum Applications from China and Malaysia
Abul Rizvi 22 Nov 2019 The invisibility of Asian–Australians is a national scandal. The silence on this scandal is a disgrace
Ramesh Thakur 14 Nov 2019 FRANCESCA BEDDIE. The Golden Country, Australia’s Changing Identity.
Francesca Beddie 8 Nov 2019 MAX COSTELLO. Who’s right about Medevac airlifts to Australia – the doctors or Peter Dutton?
John Menadue 5 Nov 2019 CAVAN HOGUE: Why is Mr Dutton afraid of Australian children?
Cavan Hogue 1 Nov 2019 BRUCE DUNCAN. Mr Morrison, please do not abandon innocent Aussie children in Syria.
Bruce Duncan 29 Oct 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Prime Minister fudges regional migration figures
Abul Rizvi 23 Oct 2019 ABUL RIZVI. Pezzullo in Denial
Abul Rizvi 21 Oct 2019 'It's no crime to be a refugee'.
Ramesh Thakur 16 Oct 2019 ABUL RIZVI. Current surge in asylum seekers is not normal for Australia
Abul Rizvi 30 Sep 2019 IAN MACPHEE. Manus Island
Ian Macphee 20 Sep 2019 BRET STEPHENS. Blessed Are the Refugees (The New York Times 13-9-19)
John Menadue 16 Sep 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Morrison’s Mixed Messages on Migration
Abul Rizvi 12 Sep 2019 The Sri Lankan family – just a case of bloody mindedness
Peter Hughes 11 Sep 2019 REBECCA TAN. How a conservative town in Australia set aside politics to rally for a family facing deportation (The Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019)
John Menadue 6 Sep 2019 JOHN MENADUE. The continuing litany of lies on boat arrivals and border protection.
John Menadue 29 Aug 2019 Dysfunction in Home Affairs officially confirmed
Abul Rizvi 6 Aug 2019 MAX COSTELLO. It was the best of days; it was the worst of days
John Menadue 26 Jul 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Government Responds to Dutton’s Visa Chaos on Asylum Seekers
Abul Rizvi 18 Jul 2019 BOB DOUGLAS. Changing Australian Refugee Policy: What is realistically and politically feasible?
Bob Douglas 12 Jul 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Government reveals details of its net overseas migration (NOM) forecast
Abul Rizvi 11 Jul 2019 Thai police seize 51 Pakistani Christian asylum seekers (UCANEWS Reporter, Bangkok, 8 July 2019)
John Menadue 9 Jul 2019 FRANK BRENNAN. Australia and the refugees who come by boat
Frank Brennan 24 Jun 2019 LISA MARTIN. Tampa refugee taken in by New Zealand wins Fulbright scholarship (The Guardian)
John Menadue 13 Jun 2019 JANE McADAM An evidence based refugee policy agenda
John Menadue 7 Jun 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Chaos in our Visa System Continues
Abul Rizvi 3 Jun 2019 MICHAEL PASCOE. Bridging visas soar by 147 per cent under Coalition (New Daily, 31.05.19)
Michael Pascoe 22 May 2019 ANTHONY PUN. Metamorphosis of the Immigration Department to a fatal progeny?
Anthony Pun 16 May 2019 ABUL RIZVI. The loss of control of our air borders and with the AAT drowning
Abul Rizvi 13 May 2019 JOHN MENADUE. A Repost: The facts on boat arrivals that the media won’t face.
John Menadue 6 May 2019 ABUL RIZVI. Is the Immigration and Customs Merger an Irretrievable Disaster?
Abul Rizvi 3 May 2019 ABUL RIZVI. Partner Visas – A Lesser Known Dutton Scandal
Abul Rizvi 1 May 2019 JOHN MENADUE. Scott Morrison claims again quite wrongly that he stopped the boats. (ABC News 30.4.2019)
John Menadue 30 Apr 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Government cuts permanent migration program but forecasts net migration to rise (Part 2)
Abul Rizvi 30 Apr 2019 JOHN MENADUE. The Greens-- good policies and poor politics.
John Menadue 29 Apr 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Government cuts permanent migration program but forecasts net migration to rise (Part 1)
Abul Rizvi 22 Apr 2019 ABUL RIZVI. Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton have lost control of our borders.
Abul Rizvi 22 Apr 2019 JOHN MENADUE. Easter and the banality of evil. An edited repost
John Menadue 22 Apr 2019 ELAINE PEARSON. Australian Children are Trapped in Syria and the Government Must Bring Them Home (Human Rights Watch)
Elaine Pearson 19 Apr 2019 JOHN MENADUE. Appealing to our Better Angels. A repost from 30 June 2011
John Menadue 16 Apr 2019 RICHARD FLANAGAN. Have we, Australia, become a country that breeds mass murderers with our words? (The Guardian 14.4.2019)
John Menadue 15 Apr 2019 ABUL RIZVI. New regional visas - a recipe for exploitation and destitution.
Abul Rizvi 10 Apr 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Questions Ahead of Home Affairs Meeting That Never Happened
Abul Rizvi 1 Apr 2019 MARGARET REYNOLDS. New opportunity for Code of Race Ethics supported by 54% of the Australian Parliament in 1998.
Margaret Reynolds 27 Mar 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Migration confusion again (Part 2)
Abul Rizvi 27 Mar 2019 ANTHONY PUN. A response to Gareth Evan's article on the bamboo ceiling.
Anthony Pun 26 Mar 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Migration confusion again (Part 1)
Abul Rizvi 25 Mar 2019 JUDITH BETTS. Dutton, the media and framing Lebanese migration as Fraser’s ‘mistake’
John Menadue 13 Mar 2019 GENEVIEVE LLOYD. Strong Borders and Bad Butchers
John Menadue 13 Mar 2019 PM, stop the cynical charade on asylum-seeker boats (The Age Editorial).
John Menadue 8 Mar 2019 JOHN MENADUE. The facts on boat arrivals that the media won't face
John Menadue 8 Mar 2019 ERIKA FELLER. Bridging the divide on refugee policy
John Menadue 8 Mar 2019 MAX COSTELLO. Christmas Island, an update.
John Menadue 7 Mar 2019 MAX COSTELLO. The real reason Christmas Island is being reopened.
John Menadue 7 Mar 2019 JOHN MENADUE. Some Coalition legacies that a new government must confront
John Menadue 5 Mar 2019 ROBERT MANNE. The myth of the great wave (The Saturday Paper, 2 March 2019)
John Menadue 4 Mar 2019 ANTHONY PUN. Multiculturalism Part 3 - Contemporary support of multiculturalism.
Anthony Pun 1 Mar 2019 JOHN MENADUE. Drownings at sea and 'the more boats that come the better'
John Menadue 28 Feb 2019 PETER HUGHES The Coalition Government’s immigration shambles Part 2: What an incoming Labor government could do
Peter Hughes 27 Feb 2019 DANIEL WARNER. The Martin Ennals and Victorian Prize winners contrast with Australia's policies against human dignity.
John Menadue 27 Feb 2019 BOB DOUGLAS : Towards a proper policy on asylum seekers
Bob Douglas 25 Feb 2019 KELSEY MUNRO AND ALEX OLIVER: Polls apart: how Australian views have changed on 'boat people'. (Lowy Institute 19.2.2019)
John Menadue 22 Feb 2019 SPENCER ZIFCAK. Offshore Processing: The New Legal Attack.
Spencer Zifcak 21 Feb 2019 PETER HUGHES. The Coalition Government’s immigration shambles Part 1
Peter Hughes 21 Feb 2019 Being The Australian means never having to say sorry
Ramesh Thakur 20 Feb 2019 LAURA TINGLE. Senior bureaucrats send a message to the Government and the Opposition (ABC 19.2.2019)
John Menadue 19 Feb 2019 PAUL BONGIORNO. Did Scott Morrison miss his Tampa moment? (The New Daily 18.2.2019)
John Menadue 18 Feb 2019 FRANK BRENNAN. Safe Turnbacks and Appropriate Medical Care for Asylum Seekers (Eureka Street, 18 February 2019)
Frank Brennan 18 Feb 2019 BARRY CASSIDY undercuts Liberal scare campaign over boats. (ABC Insiders)
John Menadue 18 Feb 2019 ABUL RIZVI. Questions for Dutton on his record border protection failure.
Abul Rizvi 15 Feb 2019 FRANK BRENNAN, TIM COSTELLO, ROBERT MANNE, JOHN MENADUE. Boat Turnbacks and Medical Transfers.
Frank Brennan 15 Feb 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Asylum Seekers and Character Checking
Abul Rizvi 15 Feb 2019 JOHN MENADUE. Scott Morrison did not stop the boats.
John Menadue 15 Feb 2019 MARY CROCK AND DANIEL GHEZELBA. It's high time we stopped playing politics with migration laws.
John Menadue 13 Feb 2019 JOHN MENADUE. Getting behind the lies, fake news and spin on refugees and asylum seekers. (Michael West's blog 13.2.2019)
John Menadue 13 Feb 2019 ABUL RIZVI. Another Dutton mess. This time Citizenship processing.
Abul Rizvi 11 Feb 2019 JOHN MENADUE. Asylum seekers are pouring into Australia in record numbers by air, but the media and politicians are not interested in the facts.
John Menadue 11 Feb 2019 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Peter Dutton says doctors can't e trusted.
Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd) 11 Feb 2019 KEVIN BAIN. Refugees going nowhere - can nothing be done?
Kevin Bain 8 Feb 2019 KERRY MURPHY. Interdicting refugees not protecting refugees
John Menadue 6 Feb 2019 JAMES MASSOLA. The Australian priest helping trapped refugees the world ignores. (SMH 3/2/2019)
John Menadue 30 Jan 2019 ABUL RIZVI. Is the Government walking both sides of the street on immigration?
Abul Rizvi 16 Jan 2019 ABUL RIZVI. Is The Australian making excuses for incompetent immigration administration?
Abul Rizvi 4 Jan 2019 ABUL RIZVI: Government Continues to Pretend We Have No Air Borders
Abul Rizvi 4 Jan 2019 ABUL RIZVI. The Best of 2018: Privatising visa processing – the alarm bells are ringing (Part 1)
Abul Rizvi 4 Jan 2019 ABUL RIZVI. The Best of 2018: Privatising visa processing – the alarm bells are ringing (Part 2)
Abul Rizvi 2 Jan 2019 ABUL RIZVI. The Best of 2018: How the 2017-18 migration program was delivered.
Abul Rizvi 31 Dec 2018 ABUL RIZVI. What were the drivers of Net Overseas Migration in 2017-18?
Abul Rizvi 29 Dec 2018 ABUL RIZVI. The Best of 2018: Scott Morrison’s Record on Immigration.
Abul Rizvi 22 Dec 2018 STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Glad tidings of great welcome
Stephanie Dowrick 22 Dec 2018 JOHN MENADUE. The Best of 2018: Scott Morrison did not stop the boats.
John Menadue 21 Dec 2018 ABUL RIZVI. The Best of 2018: Dutton Sets New Asylum Seeker Application Record.
Abul Rizvi 21 Dec 2018 BRAD CHILCOTT. Refugees and the ALP Conference.
John Menadue 19 Dec 2018 IAN McAULEY. Reminder to Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison: Australia is a parliamentary democracy
Ian McAuley 13 Dec 2018 JOHN MENADUE. Fake news, spin and media complicity on border protection and boat arrivals.
John Menadue 13 Dec 2018 ABUL RIZVI: Is Minister Coleman Unwinding Dutton’s Sub-class 457 Changes
Abul Rizvi 12 Dec 2018 JOHN MENADUE. A way out of the politicking on refugees- A repost from 20 August 2018
John Menadue 12 Dec 2018 STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Facts flung overboard on refugee health - and our nation’s.
Stephanie Dowrick 11 Dec 2018 MICHAEL KELLY SJ The biggest con in any current debate in Australian public life
Michael Kelly 10 Dec 2018 ABUL RIZVI. Dutton Sets New Asylum Seeker Application Record
Abul Rizvi 10 Dec 2018 MICHAEL PASCOE. Irony: Record number of asylum seekers arrive on Dutton’s watch (The New Daily, 09.12.18)
Michael Pascoe 8 Dec 2018 ABUL RIZVI. Dutton Sets New Asylum Seeker Application Record
Abul Rizvi 4 Dec 2018 WANNING SUN AND HAIQING YU. Mandarin-speaking voters in Victoria: WeChat, new influencers and some lessons for politicians.
Wanning Sun 30 Nov 2018 ABUL RIZVI: Is our Visa Processing System in Crisis?
Abul Rizvi 21 Nov 2018 ABUL RIZVI. Morrison says ‘enough’ to a problem largely of his making.
Abul Rizvi 14 Nov 2018 An agricultural visa would change Australian society – for the worse
Abul Rizvi 9 Nov 2018 MRIDULA AMIN, ISABELLA KWAI. The Nauru Experience: Zero-Tolerance Immigration and Suicidal Children.
John Menadue 8 Nov 2018 LAURIE PATTON. ACCC begins search for light at the end of the NBN technology tunnel
Laurie Patton 7 Nov 2018 Refugees – Donald Trump’s help is accepted but Jacinda Arden’s offer is rejected
John Menadue 6 Nov 2018 How the 2017-18 migration program was delivered
Abul Rizvi 3 Nov 2018 JOHN MENADUE. Detention on Manus and Nauru serves no useful policy purpose.
John Menadue 2 Nov 2018 ABUL RIZVI: Is Dutton Frustrated by the Success of Turnback Policy?
Abul Rizvi 31 Oct 2018 IAN MACPHEE. I plead with the Labor Party to adopt a humane policy regarding asylum.A repost
Ian Macphee 26 Oct 2018 SHAUN HANNS. There is no clear empirical basis for the current policy against resettling those on Manus and Nauru in Australia.
John Menadue 19 Oct 2018 JOHN MENADUE. Have we got to a tipping point in our cruelty to refugees?
John Menadue 16 Oct 2018 IAN MACPHEE. I plead with the Labor Party to adopt a humane policy regarding asylum.
Ian Macphee 16 Oct 2018 ANTHONY PUN: A response to PM Morrison's speech in Hurstville concerning Australia/China relations.
Anthony Pun 16 Oct 2018 CATHERINE STUBBERFIELD. UNHCR urges Australia to evacuate off-shore facilities as health situation deteriorates.
John Menadue 12 Oct 2018 JOHN MENADUE. Immigration is not the problem in NSW- it is Premier Berejiklian infrastructure mess
John Menadue 12 Oct 2018 KEVIN BAIN. “Down with refugee capture and storage!” Part 2 of 2
Kevin Bain 11 Oct 2018 KEVIN BAIN. New thinking needed on refugee policy for a new period (Part 1 of 2)
Kevin Bain 8 Oct 2018 SALVATORE BABONES. Australia -the world's first immigration economy.
John Menadue 3 Oct 2018 JOHN MENADUE Morrison and Trump are experts in fake news
John Menadue 3 Oct 2018 DAVID ISAACS. Pervasive refusal syndrome and Nauru
John Menadue 2 Oct 2018 PAUL BONGIORNO. No Friend But The Mountains
John Menadue 1 Oct 2018 KERRY GOULSTON. A personal view on our current treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
John Menadue 28 Sep 2018 ABUL RIZVI: Privatising visa processing – the alarm bells are ringing (Part 2)
Abul Rizvi 27 Sep 2018 ABUL RIZVI. Privatising visa processing - the alarm bells are ringing (Part 1)
Abul Rizvi 24 Sep 2018 ROBERT MANNE. This pains me, but it's time to compromise on Australia's cruel asylum seeker policy (the Guardian, 23.09.18)
John Menadue 24 Sep 2018 SPENCER ZIFCAK. No Friend But the Mountains’:* Behrouz Boochani’s Extraordinary Narrative Of Life on Manus Island
Spencer Zifcak 21 Sep 2018 KATHARINE MURPHY. AMA president calls for urgent transfer of refugee families from Nauru.
John Menadue 21 Sep 2018 ABUL RIZVI. Morrison’s U-Turn on Migrants for the Bush.
Abul Rizvi 21 Sep 2018 STEPHANIE DOWRICK: Free the suffering children on Nauru – now.
Stephanie Dowrick 20 Sep 2018 Wentworth, Bill Shorten and refugees
John Menadue 19 Sep 2018 JAMIE LINGHAM. The changing face of Australian immigration.
John Menadue 18 Sep 2018 JIEH-YUNG LO. Reflections of a Chinese-Australian.
John Menadue 15 Sep 2018 ANTHONY PUN. History of Multiculturalism: Part 2- A decline in support of Multiculturalism from the Howard to the Rudd-Gillard Administrations.
Anthony Pun 14 Sep 2018 Bishop Long and other religious leaders denounce asylum-seeker policy.
John Menadue 14 Sep 2018 ANTHONY PUN. History of multiculturalism: Part 1 - Early development - Chinese Australian community involvement and Chinese students.
Anthony Pun 12 Sep 2018 HAMISH McDONALD. Australia takes immigration debate to a new low. (Nikkei Asian Review 5/9/2018)
John Menadue 8 Sep 2018 MARIE SELLSTROM. Rural Australians for Refugees making a statement in rural communities.
John Menadue 7 Sep 2018 Chinese Australians Or Australian Chinese?
Jocelyn Chey 3 Sep 2018 BEHROUZ BOOCHANI. Australia needs a moral revolution (the Guardian 31.08.18)
John Menadue 1 Sep 2018 ANTHONY PUN: The aftermath of the China Panic & its influence on a General Election
Anthony Pun 1 Sep 2018 WALEED ALY. Dutton’s au pair drama shows hypocrisy of immigration policy (SMH 31/8/2018)
John Menadue 31 Aug 2018 JANE CADZOW. The watchman - Scott Morrison (Sun Herald, 3 November 2012)
John Menadue 30 Aug 2018 STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Exposing the myths of "border protection" we will see the refugees as real people; and act accordingly.
Stephanie Dowrick 30 Aug 2018 ANDREW JAKUBOWICZ A multicultural whirlwind blowing up for the next election
John Menadue 29 Aug 2018 JOHN MENADUE & IAN McAULEY: A new “leader”, but no sight of leadership.
Ian McAuley 28 Aug 2018 ABUL RIZVI: Scott Morrison’s Record on Immigration
Abul Rizvi 25 Aug 2018 JOHN MENADUE. Scott Morrison did not stop the boats
John Menadue 20 Aug 2018 JOHN MENADUE. Refugees and asylum seekers. ‘The only unforgivable sin is despair'
John Menadue 17 Aug 2018 ABUL RIZVI: Will the number of temporary entrants continue to grow?
Abul Rizvi 14 Aug 2018 ABUL RIZVI. What is Dutton Hiding Now?
Abul Rizvi 9 Aug 2018 TONY KEVIN. Australian foreign policy - Riding two horses.
John Menadue 4 Aug 2018 STEPHANIE DOWRICK. Do we have a problem with refugees – or war?
Stephanie Dowrick 23 Jul 2018 VINCENT CHEOK. Understanding China and the Chinese - An Australian Perspective - Part 1.
John Menadue 12 Jul 2018 JULIE SONNERMANN. Kids of migrant families do better at school – and we should think about why
John Menadue 12 Jul 2018 DANIEL OBERHAUS. 30 Years of Data Shows Asylum Seekers Are Not an Economic Burden (Motherboard)
John Menadue 10 Jul 2018 ABUL RIZVI: Business migration should focus on establishing businesses not passive investment
Abul Rizvi 4 Jul 2018 BEPPE SEVERGNINI. In Italy, Immigrants Evoke Fear, Not Racism.
John Menadue 2 Jul 2018 ABUL RIZVI: Pezzullo’s Dark World View is Paralyzing Australia’s Immigration System.
Abul Rizvi 30 Jun 2018 HUGH MACKAY, FRANCES RUSH. Is the “Australian solution” catching on?
Hugh Mackay 20 Jun 2018 ABUL RIZVI. Will Dutton's high stakes gamble wrong-foot the Treasury?
Abul Rizvi 14 Jun 2018 THE LOCAL. Italy demands apology for France's 'hypocritical' criticism on migrants.
John Menadue 13 Jun 2018 JULIAN BURNSIDE. The legality of off-shore detention
John Menadue 4 Jun 2018 SPENCER ZIFCAK. Are Thousands of Asylum Seekers in Australia About to be Thrown off Income Support?
Spencer Zifcak 28 May 2018 FRANK BRENNAN. Close the camps now and stop the posturing.
Frank Brennan 15 May 2018 JOCELYN CHEY. Caught in the middle: Chinese Australians feel unwanted
Jocelyn Chey 11 May 2018 HENRY SHERRELL. A snapshot of temporary migrants in Australia
John Menadue 7 May 2018 SPENCER ZIFCAK. Need an urgent medical transfer from Nauru? Forget it.
Spencer Zifcak 23 Apr 2018 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Girt by Sea - Australia, the refugees and the politics of fear.
Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd) 21 Apr 2018 ROBERT MANNE. How we came to be so cruel to asylum seekers.
John Menadue 18 Apr 2018 JOHN MENADUE. The Coalition and media myth about stopping the boats.
John Menadue 28 Mar 2018 ABUL RIZVI. Is Bob Birrell Right on Australia’s Skilled Migration Program?
Abul Rizvi 24 Mar 2018 BRAD CHILCOTT. Do you expect a return on your compassion?
John Menadue 23 Mar 2018 JOHN AUSTEN. Immigration and infrastructure.
John Austen 21 Mar 2018 SPENCER ZIFCAK. Government Policies globally and the Torture of Refugees
Spencer Zifcak 20 Mar 2018 CHANDRA ROULSTON. Before most of us had made our morning coffee, they were gone.
John Menadue 8 Mar 2018 JOHN MENADUE The impotent and the pure!
John Menadue 8 Feb 2018 PETER DRYSDALE AND JOHN DENTON. Australia must move beyond Cold War thinking
John Menadue 7 Feb 2018 Australia’s curious neglect of citizens of Asian origin
Ramesh Thakur 31 Jan 2018 HENRY SHERRELL. Assessing the effect of recent 457 visa policy changes
John Menadue 30 Jan 2018 JOHN TULLOH. Israel’s Manus/Nauru solution - Rwanda.
John Tulloh 26 Jan 2018 FRANCESCA BEDDIE. What do we mean by Australia Day?
Francesca Beddie 26 Jan 2018 GRAHAM FREUDENBERG. Ode to Australia Day.
John Menadue 25 Jan 2018 JOHN MENADUE. Australia Day - a progress report.
John Menadue 20 Jan 2018 JOHN MENADUE. The ongoing spin that Tony Abbott and the Coalition stopped the boats.- A REPOST from August 3 2017
John Menadue 17 Jan 2018 MICHAEL KELLY. Canada shows us how it is done.-A REPOST from July 5 2017
Michael Kelly 17 Jan 2018 JIM COOMBS. The Economics of Stop The Boats : A sense of Proportion.
John Menadue 27 Dec 2017 LINDSAY MURDOCH and KATE GERAGHTY. A REPOST-The little girl in the pretty dress.
John Menadue 25 Dec 2017 Pope Francis, on Christmas Eve, says faith demands respect of immigrants.
John Menadue 22 Dec 2017 Hunger and disease haunt Rohingya refugees
John Menadue 18 Dec 2017 KERRY MURPHY. Retaining a cruel and punitive policy towards asylum seekers.
John Menadue 14 Dec 2017 DAVID ISAACS AND ALANNA MAYCOCK. Australia is wilfully damaging the health of children on Nauru to make a point - and it is appalling.
John Menadue 8 Dec 2017 KATHARINE BETTS AND BOB BIRRELL. How do Australian voters’ view the level of immigration? TAPRI and Scanlon compared
John Menadue 1 Dec 2017 DAVID WATTERS AND COLLEAGUES. An open letter to the Australian Parliament regarding the health of asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island
John Menadue 29 Nov 2017 Myanmar Is Not a Simple Morality Tale
John Menadue 22 Nov 2017 DUNCAN GRAHAM. Wanted: The real refugee story
Duncan Graham 20 Nov 2017 NEW YORK TIMES. Refugees on Manus Island trapped far from home, farther from deliverance
John Menadue 16 Nov 2017 Tamie Fraser, Patron of the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre delivers a message to Peter Dutton
John Menadue 13 Nov 2017 PETER YOUNG: Why Health Professionals in Immigration Detention should stop colluding and speak out
John Menadue 10 Nov 2017 Letter from concerned Australians to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on the Manus Island disaster
John Menadue 8 Nov 2017 ROBERT MANNE. A Symbol of Inhumanity: Australia's Uniquely Harsh Asylum Seeker Policy - How Did It Come to This?
John Menadue 6 Nov 2017 MICHAEL LIFFMAN. Asylum seekers: what now?
John Menadue 3 Nov 2017 FRANK BRENNAN. Questions Ardern can ask Turnbull about Manus.
Frank Brennan 3 Nov 2017 TESSA MORRIS-SUZUKI. Manus Island - Mr. Turnbull, Just Say 'Yes'
Tessa Morris-Suzuki 3 Nov 2017 The Manus Island agreement is a failure; Turnbull and Shorten need to accept that: Robert Manne, Tim Costello, Frank Brennan and John Menadue.
John Menadue 2 Nov 2017 TRAVERS McLEOD. Patient policy-making for a region on the move.
John Menadue 2 Nov 2017 PETER BROOKS AND ALEX WODAK. A response to the open letter from Crown Resorts on gambling.
Alex Wodak 17 Oct 2017 TESSA MORRIS-SUZUKI. Australian Roulette: The Games our Government Plays with Asylum Seekers’ Lives
Tessa Morris-Suzuki 13 Oct 2017 IAN MACPHEE. In Defence of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Ian Macphee 10 Oct 2017 TONY SMITH. Australia’s worst threat from terrorism lies in the home.
Tony Smith 6 Oct 2017 JOCK COLLINS. How refugees overcome the odds to become entrepreneurs
John Menadue 5 Oct 2017 THOMAS ALBRECHT. Australia's refugee policy is a failure. This is not the time to shirk responsibility.
John Menadue 3 Oct 2017 RAMESH THAKUR. Australia's engagement with Asia should start at home with engagement with Asian-Australians.
Ramesh Thakur 26 Sep 2017 SRIPRAPHA PETCHARAMESREE. The Rohingya exodus.
John Menadue 21 Sep 2017 HENRY REYNOLDS. Citizenship and English proficiency and indigenous people.
Henry Reynolds 18 Sep 2017 JOHN BLAXLAND AND ELAINE PEARSON. Myanmar Rohingya crisis: Australia needs to stand up and help as the situation worsens.
Elaine Pearson 18 Sep 2017 TRAVERS McLEOD. Opportunity for regional leadership on Rohingya refugees.
John Menadue 13 Sep 2017 JOHN MENADUE. Are we stopping the boats to save lives at sea?
John Menadue 12 Sep 2017 JOHN MENADUE. Failure of regional leadership on refugees
John Menadue 8 Sep 2017 PAUL GREGOIRE AND UGUR NEDIM. Asylum seekers left destitute at hands of Dutton
John Menadue 31 Aug 2017 ACT Government provides much needed leadership on refugees
Michelle Fahy 25 Aug 2017 RAMESH THAKUR. Debating the Burqa
Ramesh Thakur 25 Aug 2017 John Menadue. The burqa and hijab – public space must be neutral and secular.-a repost
John Menadue 24 Aug 2017 JOSEPH A. CAMILLERI. Australia's engagement with Asia and the world has fallen on hard times.
Joseph Camilleri 21 Aug 2017 TONY SMITH. In Defence of the Yarra Council
Tony Smith 17 Aug 2017 'It's time to act': Liberal MP calls for Australia to take refugees from Manus and Nauru
John Menadue 11 Aug 2017 Australia’s Desperate Refugee Obstinacy
John Menadue 9 Aug 2017 LYNDSAY CONNORS. The Coalition applauds most queue jumpers.
John Menadue 7 Aug 2017 JOHN MENADUE. Australian business in Asia - ‘pale, male and stale’. (Repost from 8 August 2016)
John Menadue 3 Aug 2017 FRANK BRENNAN. The bi-partisanship shame of refugee policy
Frank Brennan 28 Jul 2017 GREG LOCKHART. What were we fighting for at Gallipoli, in Palestine and on the Western Front? (Part 5 of 5)
Greg Lockhart 26 Jul 2017 FRANK BRENNAN, TIM COSTELLO, ROBERT MANNE and JOHN MENADUE. Stopping Boats and Saving Lives Four Years On ...
Frank Brennan 26 Jul 2017 The parliamentary eligibility law is an ass – but it is the law.
Ramesh Thakur 25 Jul 2017 GREG LOCKHART. What were we fighting for at Gallipoli, in Palestine and on the Western Front? (Part 2 of 5)
Greg Lockhart 24 Jul 2017 What were we fighting for at Gallipoli, in Palestine and on the Western Front? Part 1 of 5-part series.
Greg Lockhart 20 Jul 2017 LOUIS COOPER. A Canadian’s mistreatment at Guantanamo Bay leads to a no-win for the Trudeau Government
Louis Cooper 6 Jul 2017 TIM COLEBATCH. One census, three stories
John Menadue 5 Jul 2017 PETER HUGHES. Citizenship changes: poisonous and pointless
Peter Hughes 27 Jun 2017 TONY SMITH. The political ugliness we cannot hide
Tony Smith 26 Jun 2017 ROBYN SAMPSON. Ending child immigration detention is just a matter of time.
John Menadue 22 Jun 2017 FRANK BRENNAN. Seeking Clarity on Boat Turnbacks and the Utility of Offshore Refugee Warehousing
Frank Brennan 20 Jun 2017 FRANK BRENNAN. The origins and incoherence of Australia's asylum seeker policy
Frank Brennan 16 Jun 2017 SPENCER ZIFCAK. The Black Hearts Behind Australia’s Offshore Detention Policy
Spencer Zifcak 30 May 2017 Manchester and terrorism. Part 2 of 3.
Ramesh Thakur 29 May 2017 Manchester and terrorism, Part 1 of 3.
Ramesh Thakur 24 May 2017 EMILY FISCHER et al. Playing God: The Immigration Minister’s Unrestrained Power .
John Menadue 19 May 2017 FRANK BRENNAN. The invidious choice for refugee advocates
Frank Brennan 17 May 2017 ROBERT MANNE. An urgently needed compromise
John Menadue 15 May 2017 JAMIE LINGHAM. 457 visa changes 95% political
John Menadue 26 Apr 2017 ALLAN PATIENCE. How much lower are we going to go?
Allan Patience 25 Apr 2017 PETER HUGHES. Citizenship Test Mark II - How much juice can you squeeze out of an orange?
Peter Hughes 21 Apr 2017 TIM COLEBATCH. Yes, there is such a thing as too much immigration
John Menadue 19 Apr 2017 JOHN MENADUE. 457 visas and our temporary residence system.
John Menadue 5 Apr 2017 Building a regional refugee framework.
John Menadue 4 Apr 2017 BOB BIRRELL and DAVID McCLOSKEY. Sydney and Melbourne's housing affordability crisis: no end in sight.
John Menadue 24 Mar 2017 BOB BIRRELL and BOB KINNAIRD. Migration policy; All about numbers
Bob Birrell, Bob Kinnaird 21 Mar 2017 JOHN NIEUWENHUYSEN. Dark Days for Immigration Policy. Nation building or border protection.
John Menadue 17 Mar 2017 PHIL ROBERTSON. A new wave of atrocities is being committed against Muslims in Burma’s Rakhine state
John Menadue 15 Feb 2017 FRANK BRENNAN, TIM COSTELLO, ROBERT MANNE and JOHN MENADUE. We can stop the boats and also act decently, fairly and transparently
Frank Brennan 10 Feb 2017 PETER HUGHES. Losing the plot on immigration policy
Peter Hughes 9 Feb 2017 STEVE GEORGAKIS. Gilchrist and Australia’s national sport, Cricket?
John Menadue 9 Feb 2017 DENNIS ALTMAN. Bringing Nauru and Manus refugees to Australia is a win-win win. If the PM is bold enough.
John Menadue 8 Feb 2017 RAMESH THAKUR. Will Donald Trump’s persona destroy his administration?
Ramesh Thakur 7 Feb 2017 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Trump and Turnbull.
Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd) 1 Feb 2017 MARK BEESON. Turnbull turns toady for Trump
Mark Beeson 1 Feb 2017 WALTER HAMILTON. Bad hombres.
John Menadue 31 Jan 2017 Welcoming the Stranger
John Menadue 26 Jan 2017 John Menadue. What does it mean to be an Australian? Are we still the land of the second chance?
John Menadue 26 Jan 2017 John Menadue. Should we re-think Australia Day?
John Menadue 24 Jan 2017 AHMAD RIZKY M. UMAR. ASEAN countries should find a solution to end the persecution of Rohingya.
John Menadue 23 Jan 2017 MICHAEL GARCIA BOCHENEK. EU cannot copy Australia's offshore asylum model
John Menadue 16 Jan 2017 BRUCE ARNOLD. The Hanson Card is unworkable rather than just very nasty
John Menadue 14 Jan 2017 RAMESH THAKUR. Australia’s gulag of shame
Ramesh Thakur 12 Jan 2017 CHRIS SIDOTI. 30th Anniversary of the Australian Human Rights Commission. Part 2 of 2.
John Menadue 9 Jan 2017 Brexit, Trump and the Lucky Country 2 – The response of those left behind
Ian McAuley 6 Jan 2017 Chomsky interview on the ravages of neoliberalism.
John Menadue 6 Jan 2017 CHRISTINA HO. Hothoused and hyper-racialised ethnic imbalance in our selective schools.
John Menadue 3 Jan 2017 I am ashamed to be Australian.
John Menadue 3 Jan 2017 RAMESH THAKUR. AHRC President Gillian Triggs: a year of living dangerously. Part 2 of 3.
Ramesh Thakur 2 Jan 2017 Australia’s Death by Numbers
John Menadue 2 Jan 2017 WALTER HAMILTON. Japan’s New Blood
John Menadue 28 Dec 2016 Broken men in paradise.
John Menadue 21 Dec 2016 ROBERT MANNE. Yes Virginia, there is a solution to Australia's asylum-seeker problem.
John Menadue 21 Dec 2016 HENRY SHERRELL, PETER MARES & ANNA BOUCHER. Another obstacle on the road to citizenship?
John Menadue 20 Dec 2016 Shakespeare on refugees, strangers and inhumanity.
John Menadue 20 Dec 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Series: We can say 'no' to the Americans. How the Fraser Government said 'no' on Chile and El Salvador.
John Menadue 10 Dec 2016 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. Will the refugee deal with the US come off?
Frank Brennan 8 Dec 2016 BOB KINNAIRD. Indian IT professionals on rock bottom 457 wages undermine Turnbull’s ‘innovation’ dream
John Menadue 3 Dec 2016 Aung San Suu Kyi's government appears unable - or unwilling - to halt what some describe as 'ethnic cleansing'.
John Menadue 30 Nov 2016 Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration - the desperate situation of Rohingya in Myanmar.
John Menadue 24 Nov 2016 ANDREW MARKUS. Australians more alarmed about state of politics than impact of migration and minorities.
John Menadue 21 Nov 2016 IAN MACPHEE. Peter Dutton has it wrong on Malcolm Fraser.
Ian Macphee 19 Nov 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Peter Dutton has got it wrong in blaming Malcolm Fraser on refugees.
John Menadue 14 Nov 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Donald Trump – a false prophet and implications for Australia.
John Menadue 14 Nov 2016 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. A Welcome Deal and an Acceptable Legislative Compromise
Frank Brennan 12 Nov 2016 JOHN MENADUE. A refugee swap with the US to end the horror of refugees in Manus and Nauru may be on the cards!
John Menadue 11 Nov 2016 TESSA MORRIS-SUZUKI. Trump: it's time to go back to basics.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki 10 Nov 2016 IAN MARSH. Trump’s Victory and Australian Politics
John Menadue 10 Nov 2016 ROBERT MANNE. It’s Time
John Menadue 9 Nov 2016 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. Dog-whistling again on asylum seekers.
Frank Brennan 8 Nov 2016 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Paranoia about boat people and manufactured demagogic outrage.
Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd) 2 Nov 2016 PHIL GLENDENNING. We Need To End Australia’s Refugee Shame. Now
John Menadue 1 Nov 2016 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. Turnbull’s Policy Challenge Wrapped in Turnbull Cant
Frank Brennan 31 Oct 2016 JOHN NIEUWENHUYSEN. How Australian Political Leaders Can Abandon and Mistreat Asylum Seekers
John Menadue 28 Oct 2016 ROBERT MANNE. How we came to be so cruel to asylum seekers.
John Menadue 25 Oct 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Our Working Holiday Programs have lost their way.
John Menadue 25 Oct 2016 MUNGO MacCALLUM. Concealing crimes in Manus and Nauru.
Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd) 18 Oct 2016 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. Malcolm Turnbull's defence of Nauru.
Frank Brennan 18 Oct 2016 JAMES ROSE. From Tampa to now: how reporting on asylum seekers has been a triumph of spin over substance.
John Menadue 14 Oct 2016 Catholic Bishops - It Is Time To Bring Them Here
John Menadue 12 Oct 2016 ROBERT MANNE. Oh, No Jim, No Jim, No Jim, No
John Menadue 12 Oct 2016 PETER YOUNG. Unlike Jim Molan, We must not look away from the harm we are causing.
John Menadue 8 Oct 2016 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. Being clear eyed and misty eyed about human rights and asylum seekers.
Frank Brennan 7 Oct 2016 ROBERT MANNE. Rescuing 1700 marooned people.
John Menadue 5 Oct 2016 HUGH MACKAY. A policy that diminishes us all
Hugh Mackay 3 Oct 2016 TONY KEVIN. Shipwreck tragedy raises broad issues of duty of care in border protection
John Menadue 3 Oct 2016 JOHN FITZGERALD. Beijing's Guoqing versus Australia's way of life.
John Menadue 1 Oct 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Cruelty and evil have become banal
John Menadue 28 Sep 2016 BOB KINNAIRD. The Coalition’s Backpacker tax and work rights package
John Menadue 28 Sep 2016 MICHAEL KELLY SJ. Winners are grinners - asylum seekers in Bangkok.
Michael Kelly 26 Sep 2016 MUNGO MacCALLUM. World's best practice - the Gulags on Manus and Nauru.
Mungo MacCallum (Dec'd) 22 Sep 2016 TRAVERS McLEOD, PETER HUGHES, SRIPRAPHA PETCHARAMESREE, STEVEN WONG, TRI NUKE PUDJIASTUTI. Developing a regional refugee framework.
Peter Hughes 21 Sep 2016 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. The hypocrisy of it all is breath-taking.
Frank Brennan 21 Sep 2016 ELAINE PEARSON. Australia's harsh refugee policy is no global model.
Elaine Pearson 21 Sep 2016 JOHN NIEUWENHUYSEN. Rising hostility to refugee movement.
John Menadue 20 Sep 2016 PETER HUGHES. Who is running the show?
Peter Hughes 17 Sep 2016 GRAHAM FREUDENBERG: On the Irish and other undesirables.
John Menadue 15 Sep 2016 Nauru and Manus - the costs of detention.
John Menadue 9 Sep 2016 PATRICK McGORRY. We must settle the refugees before it is too late.
John Menadue 7 Sep 2016 SPENCER ZIFCAK. Freedom of Speech and the Racial Discrimination Act
Spencer Zifcak 7 Sep 2016 It’s Time to Close Australia’s Abusive Detention Regime
Mark Isaacs 5 Sep 2016 PARIS ARISTOTLE. Rescuing people on Nauru and Manus Island.
John Menadue 1 Sep 2016 GRAHAM FREUDENBERG. On race discrimination.
John Menadue 1 Sep 2016 JULIA BAIRD. Australia's Gulag Archipelago.
John Menadue 30 Aug 2016 Anti-global backlash is realigning politics across the West.
John Menadue 23 Aug 2016 'Racists aren't welcome here: how we kicked a racist passenger off the bus.
John Menadue 22 Aug 2016 DEE JARRAK. Is there a middle path to addressing Australia's asylum seeker dilemma?
John Menadue 19 Aug 2016 JOHN MENADUE. On Nauru and Manus, we need leaders who will appeal to the better angels of our nature.
John Menadue 16 Aug 2016 Migration experts say it is unlikely closing camps on Manus and Nauru islands would re-start boats. We are beyond that point.
John Menadue 16 Aug 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Tony Abbott now admits that he was wrong in opposing the Malaysian Arrangement.
John Menadue 15 Aug 2016 FRANK BRENNAN. Time to defuse Nauru and Manus Island time bombs
Frank Brennan 13 Aug 2016 GRAHAM FREUDENBERG on Brexit. ‘They are not laughing now’.
John Menadue 13 Aug 2016 PETER HUGHES. Manus and Nauru – time for the government to be creative
Peter Hughes 13 Aug 2016 ARJA KESKI-NUMMI. Our Devil’s Island
John Menadue 13 Aug 2016 ROBERT MANNE, FRANK BRENNAN, TIM COSTELLO & JOHN MENADUE. A solution to our refugee crisis
Frank Brennan 10 Aug 2016 MARIE SEGRAVE. Exploitation of foreign workers.
John Menadue 5 Aug 2016 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. Refugees - John Howard could do it. Why not Malcolm Turnbull?
Frank Brennan 1 Aug 2016 DALLY MESSENGER. A letter to Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten concerning refugees.
John Menadue 31 Jul 2016 PETER YOUNG. Speaking of Freedom: Human rights and mental health in detention.
John Menadue 25 Jul 2016 JOHN MENADUE. What our next Prime Minister should do on asylum seekers.
John Menadue 6 Jul 2016 MARK TRIFFITT & TRAVERS McCLEOD. Stability will only be found through ideas and democratic renewal
John Menadue 6 Jul 2016 JOHN MENADUE. What the major parties ignored in the election?
John Menadue 24 Jun 2016 FRANK BRENNAN SJ. How to Stop the Boats Decently after the election
Frank Brennan 24 Jun 2016 HUGH MACKAY. It’s time for a national conscience vote
Hugh Mackay 20 Jun 2016 SIMON SCHAMA. Brexit vote a choice between the past and the future.
John Menadue 16 Jun 2016 FAZAL RIZVI. Migration Ain’t What It Used to Be
John Menadue 14 Jun 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Julie Bishop – Foreign Minister or Senior Consular Officer
John Menadue 10 Jun 2016 BRAD CHILCOTT. The war on generosity - rewards for meanness!
John Menadue 9 Jun 2016 A war on women. Protection denied, abuse condoned on Nauru.
John Menadue 3 Jun 2016 FAZAL RIZVI. The benefits to Australia of our Asian diasporas which now constitute over 17% of our population.
John Menadue 1 Jun 2016 TIM SOUTPHOMMASANE. Bamboo ceiling and race relations.
John Menadue 31 May 2016 EVAN WILLIAMS. Chasing Asylum. Film Review.
John Menadue 31 May 2016 FRANK BRENNAN. Asylum policies and the election.
Frank Brennan 31 May 2016 JOHN O'DONOGUE: On Compassion - even for people who are 'different'
John Menadue 28 May 2016 TRAVERS McLEOD, PETER HUGHES, SRIPRAPHA PETCHARAMESREE, STEVEN WONG, TRI NUKE PUDJIASTUTI: Rohingya refugees and building a regional framework to manage refugee flows.
Peter Hughes 27 May 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Is the Coalition better able to manage our borders?
John Menadue 24 May 2016 BILL AND BARBARA CLEMENTS: Refugees and round-ups.
John Menadue 23 May 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Attacks on refugees tell us more about Malcolm Turnbull than Peter Dutton.
John Menadue 21 May 2016 SPENCER ZIFCAK. PNG Supreme Court Trumps Detention on Manus Island and Australia’s High Court too. It is regrettable that Australia does not have a similar Bill of Human Rights
Spencer Zifcak 19 May 2016 CARMEN LAWRENCE. When in doubt, rewind to the politics of fear.
John Menadue 19 May 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Never underestimate a survivor, but Peter Dutton obviously under estimates refugees. They may be 'takers' in the early years, but they become great contributors.
John Menadue 19 May 2016 ARJA KESKI-NUMMI. Peter Dutton should know better - rather than demonise refugees we should stand tall and proud of what we have achieved over the past 70 years.
John Menadue 17 May 2016 JOHN MENADUE. Refugees and Asylum seekers-‘The only unforgivable sin is despair”
John Menadue 9 May 2016 Our better angels.
John Menadue 9 May 2016 'Refugees don't self-harm because of me, Peter Dutton, they self-harm because of you.'
John Menadue 7 May 2016 Kerry Murphy. Blaming refugees.
John Menadue 7 May 2016 John Zaw. No end in sight to Rohingya suppression in Myanmar.
John Menadue 29 Apr 2016 Arja Keski-Nummi. Manus - “The Worst Angels of Our Nature”
John Menadue 28 Apr 2016 Frank Brennan SJ. Manus Island proposal.
Frank Brennan 27 Apr 2016 Frank Brennan. Cheque book solution on asylum is unconstitutional
Frank Brennan 27 Apr 2016 John Menadue. Slogans or advocacy.
John Menadue 18 Apr 2016 Richard Woolcott. A modern Australia for the 21st century.
John Menadue, Richard Woolcott 13 Apr 2016 'We are the forgotten people'; the anguish of Australia's invisible asylum seekers.
John Menadue 7 Apr 2016 Graeme Hugo, Janet Wall and Margaret Young. Migration between Australia and South East Asia is a two-way process.
John Menadue 6 Apr 2016 John Tulloh. Erdogan leads Turkey back to the Ottoman era.
John Tulloh 26 Mar 2016 What a godsend politicians and journalists are to ISIS.
John Menadue 24 Mar 2016 John Menadue and CPD. Building a regional framework on refugees and forced-migration.
John Menadue 23 Mar 2016 Travers McLeod, Peter Hughes, Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Steven Wong, Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti. The Bali Process can do a lot more to respond to forced migration in our region.
Peter Hughes 20 Mar 2016 John Menadue. A dismal humanitarian response to the Syrian tragedy: political inertia, bureaucratic failure and security obsession.
John Menadue 20 Mar 2016 John Menadue. Asian refugees, the Rohingya and a regional refugee framework.
John Menadue 9 Mar 2016 Terry Laidler. To Michael Pezzullo, Secretary, Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
Terry Laidler 2 Mar 2016 David Isaacs. As bad as Guantanamo
John Menadue 2 Mar 2016 John Tulloh. Springtime - the season of alarm and disharmony in Europe.
John Tulloh 2 Mar 2016 Peter Hughes, Arja Keski-Nummi, John Menadue. Part 3: Settlement Policy and Services.
Peter Hughes 1 Mar 2016 John Menadue. Canada's response puts us to shame.
John Menadue 1 Mar 2016 Peter Hughes, Arja Keski-Nummi and John Menadue. Part 2. Refugee Policy
Peter Hughes 29 Feb 2016 Peter Hughes, Arja Keski-Nummi and John Menadue. Part 1: Immigration Policy and Administration.
Peter Hughes 29 Feb 2016 Stephen Duckett. Blood money: pathology cuts can reduce spending without compromising health
Stephen Duckett 27 Feb 2016 The benefits of migration.
John Menadue 26 Feb 2016 John Menadue. Our humanitarian program.
John Menadue 26 Feb 2016 Measuring the misery of those forced to flee.
John Menadue 25 Feb 2016 Business can take lead on refugees to end 'execution by indifference'.
John Menadue 24 Feb 2016 Spencer Zifcak. Special Envoy on Human Rights. Ruddock. What?
Spencer Zifcak 22 Feb 2016 John Nieuwenhuysen. Multiculturalism Today and the Little Evil
John Menadue 18 Feb 2016 John Menadue. Regional cooperation on refugees, Bali and a Track II Dialogue.
John Menadue 18 Feb 2016 John Menadue. Privatising Medicare’s payments system and the erosion of Commonwealth Public Service capability.
John Menadue 11 Feb 2016 Frank Brennan SJ. The Taxpayer’s Liability for Long Term Detention on Nauru (and Manus Island)
Frank Brennan 9 Feb 2016 David Isaacs. Secrets and lies and bad morality: Australia’s policy on people seeking asylum
John Menadue 9 Feb 2016 Ravi. Poems from detention.
John Menadue 9 Feb 2016 John Menadue. The collapse of the Malaysian Arrangement has led to the depravity of Manus and Nauru.
John Menadue 8 Feb 2016 Bruce Duncan. Australia’s moral crisis: shipping babies and families off to Nauru
Bruce Duncan 5 Feb 2016 How long can we keep lying to ourselves.
John Menadue 5 Feb 2016 Frank Brennan SJ. High Court not the answer to Nauru depravity
Frank Brennan 4 Feb 2016 John Menadue. What has happened to the 11,990 Syrian refugees?
John Menadue 31 Jan 2016 Another face of the refugee crisis.
John Menadue 28 Jan 2016 Bob Kinnaird. Turnbull Government buries the FTA bad news
John Menadue 26 Jan 2016 John Menadue. Australia Day doing well, but could do better.
John Menadue 21 Jan 2016 What do we owe each other?
John Menadue 17 Jan 2016 I stand at the door and knock.
John Menadue 11 Jan 2016 John Menadue. Australians who fight in overseas wars.
John Menadue 11 Jan 2016 Vale Malcolm Fraser
John Menadue 8 Jan 2016 Bob Kinnaird. Foreign worker exploitation.
John Menadue 7 Jan 2016 John Menadue. Radicalism and terrorism.
John Menadue 31 Dec 2015 John Menadue and Peter Hughes. Slogans vs Facts on Boat Arrivals, Part 2
John Menadue 30 Dec 2015 John Menadue and Peter Hughes. Slogans versus facts on boat arrivals. Part 1
John Menadue 29 Dec 2015 Magical thinking about ISIS.
John Menadue 28 Dec 2015 John Menadue. Drownings at sea.
John Menadue 21 Dec 2015 To solve the Syrian Crisis, we need to overcome these three obstacles.
John Menadue 19 Dec 2015 How a photographer of refugees finds the stories that get left behind.
John Menadue 19 Dec 2015 The Refugees and the New War.
John Menadue 17 Dec 2015 Andrew Ailes. Does Charity Begin At Home?
John Menadue 15 Dec 2015 Allan Patience. Fighting Holy Wars in the Middle East
Allan Patience 7 Dec 2015 Walkley Award for refugee advocate, Safdar Ahmed.
John Menadue 6 Dec 2015 John Tulloh. Turkey's new neighbour - DAESH (Islamic State)
John Tulloh 27 Nov 2015 Spencer Zifcak. UN Human Rights Council Weighs in on Australia
Spencer Zifcak 26 Nov 2015 Arja Keski-Nummi Andaman Disaster – Regional Cooperation on Refugees
John Menadue 25 Nov 2015 John Menadue. Good schools, good teachers, good students and Gonski.
John Menadue 20 Nov 2015 John Tulloh. Europe: The political impact of a dead Syrian.
John Tulloh 8 Nov 2015 Michael Keating. The role of government in policy renewal.
Michael Keating 2 Nov 2015 John Menadue. Abbott lectures London on how to ‘stop the boats’.
John Menadue 29 Oct 2015 Erica Feller. Good democracy is challenged by mass migration.
John Menadue 23 Oct 2015 John Tulloh. Turkey at a dangerous crossroad.
John Tulloh 19 Oct 2015 John Menadue. Is Malcolm Turnbull sacrificing his principles?
John Menadue 12 Oct 2015 Good Samaritans in Greece
John Menadue 10 Oct 2015 Misha Coleman. Open Letter to Julie Bishop on Sri Lankan war crimes.
John Menadue 9 Oct 2015 Nauru and the Philippines
John Menadue 6 Oct 2015 John Menadue. Nauru and the Philippines!
John Menadue 2 Oct 2015 Frank Brennan. Border control gulags have had their time
Frank Brennan 29 Sep 2015 Saudi Arabia doesn't 'do' refugees.
John Menadue 28 Sep 2015 Refugee Diary.
John Menadue 24 Sep 2015 John Menadue. Transfield, Manus and Nauru
John Menadue 23 Sep 2015 Tom and Rosie support the Syrian Refugees.
John Menadue 18 Sep 2015 Kenneth Roth. The European refugee crisis is on of politics not capacity.
John Menadue 17 Sep 2015 Arja Keski-Nummi and Libby Lloyd. Resettling Syrian and Iraqi Refugees: A Program for Government-Community Action
John Menadue 16 Sep 2015 Bruce Kaye. Refugees in Australia and the Good Samaritan.
John Menadue 14 Sep 2015 Ian McAuley. Refugees and German redemption.
Ian McAuley 14 Sep 2015 "U.S. should bear blame for European refugee, humanitarian crisis"
John Menadue 14 Sep 2015 Josef Szwarc. Resettling an additional 12,000 refugees.
John Menadue 12 Sep 2015 John Menadue. Refugees, the community and civil society
John Menadue 11 Sep 2015 Ross Burns. Syria and Persecuted Minorities.
John Menadue 9 Sep 2015 Peter Hughes. Designing a more generous Australian response to the Syrian crisis
Peter Hughes 9 Sep 2015 Peter McNamara. Are all Australians just 'Bad Samaritans', or is it just the media?
John Menadue 9 Sep 2015 John Menadue. A one-off increase in the humanitarian program rather than a safe haven is now possible.
John Menadue 9 Sep 2015 Klaus Neumann. Stepping up to the plate.
John Menadue 8 Sep 2015 Michael Kelly SJ. The challenge of people movements.
Michael Kelly 8 Sep 2015 David Isaacs, Alanna Maycock, The Senate Report on Nauru.
John Menadue 7 Sep 2015 Luke Fraser. True Blue
Luke Fraser 7 Sep 2015 Josef Szwarc. Measuring our response to the refugee crisis of Syria and Iraq
John Menadue 7 Sep 2015 Two years in - even supporters despair of Abbott's feeble government.
Dennis Altman 6 Sep 2015 John Menadue. The death of Aylan Kurdi may not have been in vain.
John Menadue 3 Sep 2015 Suffer the little children
John Menadue 31 Aug 2015 Arja Keski-Nummi and Josef Szwarc. Syrian/Iraqi Refugees: Time for a Bi-partisan and Community Response
John Menadue 30 Aug 2015 John Menadue. Why are we so cruel? The problem starts at the top.
John Menadue 27 Aug 2015 Bob Kinnaird. China FTA truth still elusive
John Menadue 27 Aug 2015 Sydney's Holroyd High School and asylum seeker children.
John Menadue 27 Aug 2015 Stephen Harper. The closing of the Canadian mind.
John Menadue 20 Aug 2015 John Menadue. Saving lives at sea!
John Menadue 6 Aug 2015 John Menadue. Don’t tamper with citizenship.
John Menadue 5 Aug 2015 Arja Keski-Nummi. “Half a Step Forward” – ALP Policy on Refugees and Asylum
John Menadue 26 Jul 2015 John Menadue. A graph on boat arrivals for lazy journalists.
John Menadue 23 Jul 2015 Bob Kinnaird. More government dishonesty on China FTA
John Menadue 17 Jul 2015 John Menadue. Refugees- from toxic politics to a humanitarian policy.
John Menadue 2 Jul 2015 John Tulloh. Why Eritreans are crossing the Mediterranean.
John Tulloh 30 Jun 2015 Ian Macphee. Celebrating the arrival 40 years ago of Vietnamese refugees and their contribution to Australia.
Ian Macphee 24 Jun 2015 Brad Chilcott. Refugees, possibility before protest.
John Menadue 23 Jun 2015 Peter Hughes. Subsidising foreign investment with visas.
Peter Hughes 14 Jun 2015 Peter Hughes. The War on Australian Citizenship
Peter Hughes 13 Jun 2015 Robert Manne. Human Rights Commission and Gillian Triggs.
John Menadue 29 May 2015 Peter Hughes. Citizenship Revocation: a very limited tool in the fight against Jihadists
Peter Hughes 1 May 2015 Richard Woolcott. Australia and Indonesia.
John Menadue 22 Apr 2015 John Menadue. The price we are paying for the Greens.
John Menadue 17 Apr 2015 Frank Brennan SJ. Still seeking a way of stopping the boats decently
Frank Brennan 11 Apr 2015 Fiona McGaughey, Mary Anne Kenny. Lashing out at the UN is not the act of a good international citizen.
John Menadue 22 Mar 2015 Tributes to Malcolm Fraser.
John Menadue 22 Mar 2015 Ian Macphee. Personal memories of Malcolm Fraser.
Ian Macphee 20 Mar 2015 Rachel Wilson, Bronwen Dalton and Chris Baumann. Six ways Australia's education system is failing our kids.
John Menadue 12 Mar 2015 Spencer Zifcak. The Martin Place Siege
Spencer Zifcak 7 Mar 2015 Safdar Ahmed. A moving inside story about detainees in the Villawood Detention Centre.
John Menadue 4 Mar 2015 Graham Freudenberg. Gough Whitlam Commemorative Oration.
John Menadue 1 Mar 2015 We should expect more.
John Menadue 25 Feb 2015 John Menadue. Mother Merkel and 800,000 refugees
John Menadue 24 Feb 2015 Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Tony Abbott, What have you done for peace?
Tessa Morris-Suzuki 22 Feb 2015 Brian Johnstone. The forgotten children. The ethical dimension.
John Menadue 18 Feb 2015 Peter Day. Life is sacred, but ....
John Menadue 17 Feb 2015 The Forgotten Children.
John Menadue 17 Feb 2015 Kim Oates. The Forgotten Children
Kim Oates 17 Feb 2015 Marie Coleman. Human Rights Commission and the forgotten children.
John Menadue 15 Feb 2015 Peter Day. The Lucky Country
John Menadue 14 Feb 2015 John Menadue. Fairness, Opportunity and Security - Filling the policy vacuum
John Menadue 14 Feb 2015 Melanie Noden. The Forgotten Children.
John Menadue 11 Feb 2015 Feathers ruffled in the Department of Immigration nest.
John Menadue 10 Feb 2015 Michael Sainsbury. FIRB credibility shot with execution of Chinese gangster.
Michael Sainsbury 7 Feb 2015 Rosemary Breen- Living water in Myanmar
John Menadue 3 Feb 2015 Tony Smith. Baird’s risk on asylum seekers
Tony Smith 3 Feb 2015 John Menadue. Stopping the boats and turn-backs at sea
John Menadue 2 Feb 2015 John Menadue. Tony Abbott at the National Press Club
John Menadue 31 Jan 2015 High Court decision on Tamil asylum seekers
Frank Brennan 17 Jan 2015 Wendy Sharpe - Asylum seeker portraits and stories
John Menadue 11 Jan 2015 John Menadue. If I were a Muslim...
John Menadue 27 Dec 2014 John Tulloh. The flight of Christians from the Middle East.
John Tulloh 18 Dec 2014 Kerry Murphy. Intra-religious conflict.
John Menadue 11 Dec 2014 Tilly Gunning. Children in detention.
John Menadue 11 Dec 2014 John Menadue. Temporary Protection Visas and the Senate cross-bench.
John Menadue 9 Dec 2014 Jock Collins. Australia's shift from settler to temporary migration nation.
John Menadue 8 Dec 2014 John Menadue. Tony Abbott did not stop the boats.
John Menadue 7 Dec 2014 Refugees - some middle ground is opening up.
John Menadue 27 Nov 2014 Peter Hughes. Reintroduction of Temporary Protection Visas -Time to Negotiate
Peter Hughes 27 Nov 2014 John Menadue. Our ‘best friend’ in Asia is in trouble.
John Menadue 24 Nov 2014 Elaine Pearson. Australia should reconsider refugee transfers to Cambodia
Elaine Pearson 16 Nov 2014 John Menadue. We pass by on the other side.
John Menadue 28 Oct 2014 John Tulloh. Israel High Court upsets Government on asylum seekers
John Tulloh 23 Oct 2014 Claire Higgins. International legal obligations once shaped our refugee policy
John Menadue 22 Oct 2014 George Lekakis recalls meeting Gough Whitlam.
John Menadue 15 Oct 2014 The Italian solution.
John Menadue 13 Oct 2014 John Menadue. Asylum seekers – institutionalised cruelty, the banality of evil and immorality.
John Menadue 4 Oct 2014 Mike Steketee. Abbott faces the reality of multicultural Australia
John Menadue 1 Oct 2014 Portraits of Humanity
John Menadue 29 Sep 2014 Robert Manne. “When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do, Sir.” JM Keynes
John Menadue 27 Sep 2014 Andrew Kaldor. Are We Paying Too Much To Stop The Boats?
John Menadue 25 Sep 2014 John Menadue--We stopped the boats; we will now stop the jihadists
John Menadue 24 Sep 2014 Xanthe Emery: Family violence and immigration – is the message getting across?
John Menadue 16 Sep 2014 Hugh Mackay. Does every moral lapse make the next one easier?
Hugh Mackay 8 Sep 2014 David Isaacs and Ian Kerridge. Asylum seeker's 'brain death' shows failure of care and of democracy.
John Menadue 4 Sep 2014 Ben Lewis. The false advertising of mandatory detention and “Stopping the Boats”
John Menadue 1 Sep 2014 Peter Hughes. Australian Jihadists: Is Revoking Citizenship the Answer?
Peter Hughes 1 Sep 2014 Clare Condon SGS. Sanctioned Violence: What does it do to our society and relationships?
John Menadue 28 Aug 2014 John Menadue. Refugees and asylum seekers..a re-think on Temporary Protection Visas.
John Menadue 26 Aug 2014 John Menadue. Scott Morrison at the Human Rights Commission.
John Menadue 19 Aug 2014 Elizabeth Elliott. Compassion goes missing on Christmas Island
John Menadue 16 Aug 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. We think we have a problem!
Frank Brennan 15 Aug 2014 John Menadue. Is there light at the end of the dark tunnel?
John Menadue 12 Aug 2014 Bob Douglas and Claire Higgins. Beyond Operation Sovereign Borders.
Bob Douglas 7 Aug 2014 John Menadue. . Come by air - no problem!
John Menadue 7 Aug 2014 Kerry Murphy. The persecutions.
John Menadue 6 Aug 2014 Lisa Petheram. Listening to young people’s voices on Refugee and Asylum Seeker Policy
John Menadue 4 Aug 2014 Mike Steketee. Mandatory detention punishes but it does not deter.
John Menadue 3 Aug 2014 John Menadue. Suffer the little children to come unto me…
John Menadue 17 Jul 2014 Refugee success
John Menadue 15 Jul 2014 Malaysia, Manus, Nauru and offshore processing.
John Menadue 14 Jul 2014 Creating a Long-Term Framework for Asylum Seeker Policy
John Menadue 9 Jul 2014 Tony Smith. Singing out for asylum seekers.
Tony Smith 9 Jul 2014 Elenie Poulos. Morrison's Vision of the 'National Interest' Does Us No Good.
John Menadue 6 Jul 2014 Elaine Pearson. The civil war may have ended, but not the persecution.
Elaine Pearson 4 Jul 2014 Kerry Murphy. The four questions quiz for refugees.
John Menadue 3 Jul 2014 Kerry Murphy. More punishment for asylum seekers and refugees.
John Menadue 2 Jul 2014 Xenophobia and strange behaviour over boats.
John Menadue 28 Jun 2014 The disastrous outcome on climate change and the Greens’ culpability
John Menadue 28 Jun 2014 Repost. Holier than thou ... but with disastrous results. John Menadue
John Menadue 26 Jun 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. The banality of evil
Michael Kelly 26 Jun 2014 Patty Fawkner SGS. Permissible victims.
John Menadue 26 Jun 2014 All at sea again.
John Menadue 25 Jun 2014 Those Feisty Iranians
John Menadue 17 Jun 2014 Emily Howie. Australia's dangerously close relationship with Sri Lanka..
John Menadue 13 Jun 2014 John Tulloh. Misery accomplished in Iraq as disintegration threatens.
John Tulloh 12 Jun 2014 Frank Brennan SJ. Why I am not just “getting over” the boats stopping.
Frank Brennan 11 Jun 2014 Persecution of Tamils.
John Menadue 11 Jun 2014 Mark Isaacs. The Salvos on Nauru.
John Menadue 9 Jun 2014 Walter Hamilton. Postcard from Poland and Auschwitz
John Menadue 5 Jun 2014 Hugh Mackay. Immoral acts - that's one way to stop the boats.
Hugh Mackay 3 Jun 2014 Tuong Quang Luu, AO. Cambodia, a deterrent or an opportunity lost?
John Menadue 27 May 2014 Elaine Pearson. Cambodia: A poor choice for Australia’s refugee resettlement
Elaine Pearson 20 May 2014 Michael Keating. Part 2. The Budget and our Values
Michael Keating 6 May 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Why Protestants are more popular than Catholics in China
Michael Kelly 2 May 2014 Refugees to Cambodia
Michael Sainsbury 29 Apr 2014 Penne Mathew and Tristan Harley…Regional Cooperation on refugees
John Menadue 15 Apr 2014 Michael Sainsbury. Australia and Cambodia's shady asylum seeker deal.
Michael Sainsbury 14 Apr 2014 John Menadue. Using the military for political purposes
John Menadue 6 Apr 2014 Ben Saul. Australia's Guantanamo problem.
John Menadue 2 Apr 2014 Kerry Murphy. To Kill a Mockingbird and 2014.
John Menadue 28 Mar 2014 Louise Newman. Detention of children seeking asylum in Australia.
John Menadue 28 Mar 2014 David Isaacs. Impacts of detention on children.
John Menadue 28 Mar 2014 Mark Isaacs. Deterring boat arrivals!
John Menadue 21 Mar 2014 Wayne Gibbons. The boats were not sabotaged.
John Menadue 20 Mar 2014 Susie Carleton. The ABC is at it again.
John Menadue 14 Mar 2014 Azita Bokan. The tragedy on Manus - an eye-witness account.
John Menadue 5 Mar 2014 John Menadue. The war on asylum seekers
John Menadue 25 Feb 2014 Arja Keski-Nummi. Offshore Processing in Cambodia - Really?
John Menadue 21 Feb 2014 John Menadue. Manus and Nauru and Australia's responsibility in regional processing.
John Menadue 19 Feb 2014 Michael Kelly SJ. Australians as the 'white trash of Asia' reaches new depth.
Michael Kelly 18 Feb 2014 Andrew Babkoff. The human side of refugees.
John Menadue 17 Feb 2014 John Menadue-Refugees - the demographic dividend.
John Menadue 6 Feb 2014 John Menadue. Cutting back government spending - does it include middle-class and corporate welfare?
John Menadue 3 Feb 2014 Chris Geraghty. The ABC and Scott Morrison
Chris Geraghty 2 Feb 2014 John Menadue. Sharks and asylum seekers
John Menadue 22 Jan 2014 Pope Francis - Message on Migrants and Refugees. January 2014
John Menadue 21 Jan 2014 Arja Keski-Nummi. They are us ... and the language of war!
John Menadue 15 Jan 2014 Mission accomplished? Be careful which war you wish for. Travers McLeod
John Menadue 14 Jan 2014 Repost. Refugee advocates and offshore processing. John Menadue
John Menadue 13 Jan 2014 Asylum seekers - Tony Abbott and I share a Jesuit education. John O'Mara
John Menadue 13 Jan 2014 Journalists are not welcome in Nauru. Elaine Pearson
John Menadue 13 Jan 2014 Repost: Don't tamper with the Refugee Convention. John Menadue
John Menadue 11 Jan 2014 Towback of boats to Indonesia. Frank Brennan SJ
Frank Brennan 11 Jan 2014 A place of refuge: responses to international population movements. Arja Keski-Nummi
John Menadue 10 Jan 2014 Repost: Nation building or border policing? Guest blogger: Peter Hughes
Peter Hughes 8 Jan 2014 People like us: personal reflections. Guest blogger Trevor Boucher
John Menadue 2 Jan 2014 People smugglers - villains and heroes. John Menadue
John Menadue 31 Dec 2013 Repost: Are most asylum seekers and refugees Muslims? John Menadue
John Menadue 31 Dec 2013 Remarks by Sir William Deane AC on "Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Finding a Better Way".
John Menadue 20 Dec 2013 No Room at the Inn - Asylum Seekers in Australia, Christmas 2013. Guest blogger: Kerry Murphy
John Menadue 18 Dec 2013 Election aftermath - where to now on asylum seekers and refugees? John Menadue
John Menadue 12 Dec 2013 Facts on boat arrivals. John Menadue
John Menadue 21 Nov 2013 Australia's Foreign Policy Trailing a Leaky Boat. Guest Blogger: Arja Keski-Nummi
John Menadue 18 Nov 2013 Tony Abbott in Sri Lanka. John Menadue
John Menadue 12 Nov 2013 Surely the Indonesians wouldn't play politics over boat people! John Menadue
John Menadue 8 Nov 2013 When "... language itself becomes a weapon" Guest blogger: Professor Ian Webster.
John Menadue 6 Nov 2013 Are current maritime asylum seeker policies working? Guest blogger: Peter Hughes
Peter Hughes 18 Oct 2013 Why Iranians join the refugee queue. Guest Iranian correspondent Nadia S Fosoul
John Menadue 10 Oct 2013 The apathy and hostility of South Koreans to their Northern cousins. Guest bloggers: Markus Bell and Sarah Chee
John Menadue 9 Oct 2013 Even-handed Tony Abbott. John Menadue
John Menadue 3 Oct 2013 A somersault - back to business as usual. Guest blogger: Arja Keski-Nummi
John Menadue 2 Oct 2013 Israel's asylum-seeker dilemma. Guest blogger: John Tulloh.
John Tulloh 1 Oct 2013 Sri Lanka - the civil war may be over but peace has not returned.
John Menadue 19 Sep 2013 Where ignorance is bliss ... ('tis foolish to be wise) Guest blogger Arja Keski-Nummi
John Menadue 18 Sep 2013 Commodifying and dehumanising asylum seekers. Guest blogger Michael Kelly SJ
Michael Kelly 9 Sep 2013 Dodging a bullet. Guest blogger: John Young
John Menadue 8 Sep 2013 Facing the future. Guest blogger: Prof. Stephen Leeder
Stephen Leeder 8 Sep 2013 The election - punishing bad behaviour. John Menadue
John Menadue 5 Sep 2013 Asylum seekers are blocking the M4 freeway and clogging up our hospitals! John Menadue
John Menadue 3 Sep 2013 Boat arrivals are down. John Menadue
John Menadue 2 Sep 2013 From one Catholic to another. Guest blogger: Bishop Hurley, Darwin.
John Menadue 21 Aug 2013 Jesuit students rebuke Tony Abbott and other old boys. John Menadue
John Menadue 16 Aug 2013 Hitting rock-bottom! John Menadue
John Menadue 13 Aug 2013 Minimizing PNG and Nauru. John Menadue
John Menadue 9 Aug 2013 Is something significant happening in our alignment to our region? John Menadue
John Menadue 30 Jul 2013 A regional refugee instrument. John Menadue
John Menadue 29 Jul 2013 Least-worst option and minimising PNG. John Menadue
John Menadue 28 Jul 2013 Iranians - refugees or migrants? John Menadue
John Menadue 26 Jul 2013 Asylum seeker saga continues. Guest Blogger: Marcus Einfeld
John Menadue 24 Jul 2013 Regional Settlement Agreement with Papua New Guinea - a post-script. John Menadue
John Menadue 20 Jul 2013 The Regional Settlement Arrangement with Papua New Guinea. John Menadue
John Menadue 17 Jul 2013 Don't race to the bottom on asylum seekers!
John Menadue 15 Jul 2013 Regional cooperation is the key. Guest blogger: Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser
John Menadue 14 Jul 2013 Pope Francis blasts 'globalisation of indifference' for immigrants. Report from National Catholic Reporter
John Menadue 12 Jul 2013 Tony Abbott - one-liners won't work. John Menadue
John Menadue 9 Jul 2013 Ending the policy paralysis on refugees. John Menadue
John Menadue 6 Jul 2013 Asylum seekers - good news at last. John Menadue
John Menadue 5 Jul 2013 Asylum seekers. Don't let us be diverted from regional arrangements. John Menadue
John Menadue 2 Jul 2013 Asylum seekers - a regional solution and Bob Carr's nonsense. Guest blogger: Frank Brennan SJ
Frank Brennan 1 Jul 2013 What should Prime Minister Kevin Rudd do about boat arrivals? John Menadue
John Menadue 28 Jun 2013 Stopping the boats decently - can it be done? Guest blogger: Frank Brennan SJ
John Menadue 27 Jun 2013 Never underestimate a survivor. John Menadue
John Menadue 27 Jun 2013 Back from the brink of disaster. John Menadue
John Menadue 17 Jun 2013 The Vatican appeals in vain for decency towards refugees. John Menadue
John Menadue 11 Jun 2013 Asylum policies leading nowhere. Joint blog: John Menadue and Arja Keski-Nummi
John Menadue 27 May 2013 Asylum seekers and refugees - political slogans or humanitarian policies? John Menadue
John Menadue 20 May 2013 We are a more generous people than the politicians think we are. John Menadue
John Menadue 17 May 2013 Truth, Trust and the Media. John Menadue
John Menadue 10 May 2013 Our better angels. Guest bloggers Brenda, Edith and Elizabeth
John Menadue 29 Apr 2013 Tony Abbott keeps telling us that boat people are illegals and by inference, criminals. John Menadue
John Menadue 12 Apr 2013 Reviving Malaysia. John Menadue
John Menadue 10 Apr 2013 More punishment for asylum seekers and refugees. John Menadue
John Menadue 5 Apr 2013 Are most asylum seekers and refugees Muslims?
John Menadue 30 Mar 2013 Hazaras in peril. John Menadue
John Menadue 28 Mar 2013 The Boat People Obsession. John Menadue
John Menadue 27 Mar 2013 The Pacific Solution has failed. John Menadue
John Menadue 22 Mar 2013 The Flow of Asylum Seekers to Australia follows world trends. John Menadue
John Menadue 19 Mar 2013 Confusion and Contradiction on Asylum Seekers in the Community. John Menadue
John Menadue 12 Mar 2013 Asylum Seekers and Paedophiles. John Menadue
John Menadue 8 Mar 2013 Let them Work. John Menadue
John Menadue 6 Mar 2013 Prejudice compounded by ignorance. John Menadue
John Menadue 5 Mar 2013 'I was a stranger and you took me in.'
John Menadue 22 Feb 2013 The Greens and Asylum Seekers. How the 'perfect' became the enemy of the 'good'.
John Menadue 19 Feb 2013 Work rights for asylum seekers. Guest blogger: Bruce Kaye
John Menadue 17 Feb 2013 The asylum seekers that we don't talk about
John Menadue 15 Feb 2013 Minister! Let them work.
John Menadue 6 Feb 2013 New leadership on Asylum seekers
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