Keywords: Immigration Reform
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AUSTRALIA
- Matthew Dobson
- 23 January 2008
5 Comments
More money will not necessarily buy quality healthcare system. How funding is spent is critical. Despite the spending disparity, health outcomes in the United States are comparable to those of Costa Rica.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Rosen
- 13 December 2007
4 Comments
A recent series of raids by the US Department of Homeland Security signals a new era of anti-immigrant sentiment in the country. This is rationalised by a false association of undocumented immigrants with the 'war on terror'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Susan Metcalfe
- 12 December 2007
6 Comments
Nauru's transition from hosting asylum seekers for Australia needs to be handled sensitively and the country should be seen as the victim of a more powerful Australian Government exploiting a poor nation's dire circumstances.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 31 October 2007
1 Comment
ALP Immigration Policy includes both change and continuity. It gives more priority to teaching English over testing, but there's still too much reliance on ministerial discretion rather than the judicial system.
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 05 June 2007
3 Comments
John Howard’s "relaxed and comfortable" approach to national life, then, was not simply a rejection of Paul Keating’s aggressive, deliberate reforms. It represented a vile pandering to our cultural inertia, an affirmation of our basest tendencies.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2007
7 Comments
The last state authorised execution in Australia—that of Ronald Ryan—occurred 40 years ago last week. 12 year old Frank Brennan felt it was wrong. His adolescent moral sensibilities found resonance in public debate, law reform and policy change.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
- 01 July 2006
Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking
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AUSTRALIA
Anthony Ham on Iraq and America.
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AUSTRALIA
Refugee lawyer David Manne sets new refugee legislation in its historical context, and exposes its radical and brutal character.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2006
Father Frank Brennan discusses the Howard Government's approach to the issue of asylum seeker detention off-shore.
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 29 April 2006
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.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Corlett
- 20 April 2006
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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