COMMENTARY
Providing well-informed analysis of asylum policy in Australia and internationally.
Hafiza Zahidee - Australia's Response to Afghanistan: Compassion or Inaction?
October 2021
Sitarah Mohammadi and Sajjad Askary - THREE THINGS AUSTRALIA CAN AND MUST IMMEDIATELY DO TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN
September 2021
Emma Blakey and Isabella Farrell-Hallegraeff - BRIDGING THE DEPARTMENT’S VISA BLINDSPOT
June 2021
Daniel Ghezelbash and Nikolas Feith Tan - The End of the Right to Seek Asylum? COVID-19 and Refugee Protection
January 2021
Riona Moodley - RETHINKING REGIONAL PROCESSING: THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION FOR INDOCHINESE REFUGEES AS A ROADMAP FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
August 2020
Miriam cullen - The UN Human Rights Committee’s recent decision on climate displacement
February 2020
Asher Hirsch, Khanh Hoang, Anthea vogl - as Canadians sponsor refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres, many Australians are asking why we don’t have our own sponsorship program?
December 2019
Maria o’sullivan - can states cease the protection status of resettled refugees?
November 2019
AMY NETHERY - SECRECY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN AUSTRALIA’S IMMIGRATION DETENTION SYSTEMS
October 2019
Gemima Harvey - beyond limbo, building lives: the need for livelihood opportunities for refugees in indonesia
August 2019
SAVitri taylor - australia’s practice of boat turnbacks
July 2019
Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong - REFUGEE RIGHTS AND POLICY WRONGS
July 2019
Louise Olliff - TIME TO REIMAGINE RESETTLEMENT?
March 2019
Elyse Methven and Anthea Vogl - Australia’s Asylum Seeker Code of Behaviour
February 2019
EMILIE MCDONNELL - THE RIGHT TO LEAVE AND AUSTRALIA’S ASYLUM SEEKER POLICIES
February 2019
likim ng - excluding refugees on national security grounds: problems and potentials
December 2018
asher hirsch - WHAT DOES ‘REGULAR AND ORDERLY MIGRATION’ MEAN FOR REFUGEES?
December 2018
Mozhgan Moarefizadeh - stranded in transit, refugees take the initiative
November 2018
STEPHEN PHILLIPS - Vulnerability in immigration detention – Are some more vulnerable than others?
October 2018
CARLY GORDYN - The bali process and refugee protection in southeast asia
September 2018
John van Kooy - REVIEW: BORDER POLITICS
July 2018
Gemima Harvey - Protection anywhere but here
July 2018
Daniel Ghezelbash - REFUGE LOST
May 2018
NISHADH REGO - DETERRENCE BY PUNISHMENT
January 2018
camilla ioli - australia's offshore processing system: an exemplar for the eu?
December 2017
tara crisp - corporate responsibility and the manus island class action
October 2017
scott cosgriff - THE DEAL WITH REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT
September 2017
Maria O'Sullivan - CHALLENGING THE FAIRNESS OF REFUGEE DECISIONS IN NAURU
September 2017
Margarita Fourer - What can we learn from Australia’s Pacific Solutions?
September 2017
Nishadh rego - why Outsourcing Border Protection Cannot Work
February 2017
Jasmine Dawson - Protection struggles: Australia’s approach to LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees
November 2016
Sam Tyrer - ‘The end is nigh’: What should happen after Nauru and Manus close?
October 2016
gemima harvey - australia's two faces on violence against women
August 2016
Max Walden - The 'lucky ones': refugees in protracted transit in indonesia
June 2016
Daniel wiseman - weathering the storm with dignity: climate change and mass mobility in the pacific
May 2016
Asher Hirsch - Does what happens offshore, stay offshore?
March 2016
TIM WATSON - ENGAGING THE HEARTS AND MINDS: LESSONS FROM AUSTRALIA'S REFUGEE INTAKE INCREASE
December 2015
Karen tong - A DIY solution in South-east asia
November 2015
Ashley tippins - in limbo in micronesia
October 2015
Mark evenhuis - Is your super invested in Australia’s detention of children?
September 2015
CLAIRE HAMMERTON - LEGISLATING AGAINST GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED CHILD ABUSE
September 2015
Rev Alistair Macrae - #Love Makes a way
August 2015
tara crisp - Boat turn-backs in Australia, the United States and Italy
August 2015
Raffaele Piccolo - 'use the force': the government's latest attack on asylum seekers
June 2015
Jeff Crisp - Australia and Europe: failing the world's refugees
June 2015
MICHAEL SIMMONS - 'GETTING AUSTRALIAN' ON THE MEDITERRANEAN
May 2015
Mark evenhuis - australia's dwindling authority in png
April 2015
Greg Lake - What nation are we building?
January 2015
Antje Missbach - More Unpleasant Surprises
December 2014
Nik Tan - Australia, Indonesia and the principle of non-refoulement
November 2014
June Factor - The past is a familiar country
October 2014
Lucy Bradlow - The demonisation of immigrants and asylum seekers in popular politics
September 2014
Paul Power - Looking beyond Australia's debate about asylum to better regional answers for refugees
August 2014
David Feith - Fleeing persecution in Sri Lanka
July 2014
Melissa Phillips - Sovereignty: the heart of the matter?
June 2014
Tim Watson - Reduce poverty to protect refugees
May 2014
Mark Isaacs - No fairness on Nauru
April 2014
Nik Tan - China’s asylum hypocrisy
March 2014
Antje Missbach - Indonesia-Australia relations sour over asylum seeker boats
December 2013
Spencer Zifcak - The Rudd/Abbott Refugee Revolution
November 2013
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