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Jessica Gadd interviews Dr Nouria Salehi about the rights of Afghan women.
Ben Fraser follows Sally Neighbour through In the Shadow of Swords: On the trail of terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia.
David Glanz finds that talk of democracy is a double-edged sword.
Jack Thomas is one of the first Australians charged under the Howard Government’s new anti-terror laws, but is he really a threat to national security or merely a sacrifical lamb?
While many Australian people remain divided on the question of capital punishment, we can rejoice in the fact that in this country there is public debate about the issue.
With the unlinking of the politics of asylum from the debate over national identity, Australia is now within reach of an opportunity to engage in much-needed policy reform.
Mathias Heng’s extraordinary images of people left homeless by Pakistan’s devastating earthquake.