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Commonwealth cousins Australia and Canada are headed toward distinctly different futures
Frank Brennan’s Tampering with Asylum prompts Peter Mares to look at this issue again.
Educator Tom Mann recalls his experiences of working with children in detention
Refugee lawyer David Manne sets new refugee legislation in its historical context, and exposes its radical and brutal character.
Letters from Helen Noakes, Frank Donovan, Alistair Pound and Frank Brennan.
Letters from Lachlan Harris and Joan Healy
Reviews of the films Letters to Ali, Coffee and cigarettes and The Village.
Australia’s agreement with Papua New Guinea over the use of Manus Island as an off-shore detention and processing centre for asylum seekers, expired at the end of October.
Mark Raper on Australia’s changing attitudes to refugees
Avril Hannah-Jones looks at the effectiveness of protesting.
Tony Smith reviews Ian Rankin’s Fleshmarket Close; Garry Disher’s Kittyhawk Down and Alexander McCall Smith’s The Sunday Philosophy Club.
Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.
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