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There are times when we Australians get the balance between national interest and individual liberty wrong, especially when the individual is a member of a powerless minority. One way of improving the balance is including the judiciary in the calculus, as has now happened in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
Baxter, desert of long sentences / Locked up his youth / Now his eyes are broken wings
In February all seven judges of the High Court threw out Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock’s ‘privative clause’ which was an attempt to deny asylum seekers and all other visa applicants access to the courts.
Refugee stories told by Arnold Zable.
Professor Saeed and Fr Madigan make religious dialogue look easy. You would almost wonder what is the problem.
Frank Brennan’s Tampering with Asylum prompts Peter Mares to look at this issue again.
Letters from Marilyn Shepherd and Brent Howard
Educator Tom Mann recalls his experiences of working with children in detention
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
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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