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Tony Kevin’s diplomatic career has directly lead him to investigate SIEV X.
Nation-building is a fraught and messy business. Michael Ignatieff knows that well.
When we associate a year with a nation, the people of that nation have usually had little to celebrate. This has been the year of Iraq.
Frank Brennan’s Tampering with Asylum prompts Peter Mares to look at this issue again.
Children need help to protect themselves, argues Moira Rayner.
Social policy advocates equip themselves for the economic debate
An interview with Asian culinary master, Rosemary Brissenden, by Christine Salins.
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
Madeleine Byrne finds Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, vivid and timely.
Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.
Tony Kevin is a former Australian ambassador to Cambodia and Poland, and the author of Crunch Time, a book exploring Australia's inadequate policy responses to the climate change crisis. His most recent book is Reluctant Rescuers (2012). His previous publication on refugee boat tragedy — A Certain Maritime Incident — was the recipient of a NSW Premier's literary award in 2005.