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Margaret Coffey watches as Australia welcomes Sudanese refugees.
Dorothy Horsfield visits the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe
Tony Smith reviews Ian Rankin’s Fleshmarket Close; Garry Disher’s Kittyhawk Down and Alexander McCall Smith’s The Sunday Philosophy Club.
Warning signs for the Whitlam Government were there in 1974, with an ailing economy, a political storm in the Senate, sliding popularity and a scandal unfolding in secret.
The question initially asked about Cornelia Rau was why an Australian citizen should be treated so badly. This question was morally adrift. We should ask why any human being could be treated in this way.
The organisational culture within Australia’s Department of Immigration appears to have little regard for human rights, but an ex-insider says it didn’t have to be that way
Under different leadership, in different times, changes in attitudes towards asylum seekers have been profound and swift
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.
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