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Tweet It is not illegal to seek asylum in Australia. Marilyn Shepherd explains how this lie and the demonisation of people smugglers became folklore in Australia. When the UN Refugee Convention was written in 1951, the understanding and letter...
Tweet The Gillard Government’s new bridging visas are a counter-productive recipe for social corrosion, says Dr Binoy Kampmark. IF YOU ARE members of the Gillard government, looking to be ruthless — could you not at least be inventive? In...
Tweet Is the Government pushing boat people policy too far to the right? Cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson animates. read more »
Tweet Bob Ellis has some hard words to say about Prime Minister Julia Gillard about her attitudes towards race. By Bob Ellis THREE soldiers in a ten-year war die by gunfire and it is like a ‘physical blow’ to a nation. Forty children hoping...
Tweet ABC Q&A is a weekly case study of corporate and political bias packaged in a spurious guise of balance and journalistic integrity, says Adam Hughes Henry. Graham Richardson makes his 10th appearance on ABC Q&A tonight, while fellow...
Tweet The Government’s new immigration legislation is political dressing that is not going to “stop the boats”, says community consultant and former SBS reporter Graham Hardy. WILL the boats stop coming? No. Will the number of boats decrease?...
Tweet Could this signal a return to bipartisanship on refugees in Australia? Will Australia now resume pulling its weight in the international community? Alan Austin reports. The Houston report to the Gillard Government on asylum seekers released...
Tweet In a major reversal, the Government has said it would accept the findings of the Houston Report and process asylum seekers in Naura and PNG. Bob Ellis comments. By Bob Ellis The Fairfax press reported the following this morning about the...
Tweet When thinking about the current crop of boat people, we should also remember that many of our ancestors also arrived in Australia after perilous boat journeys. In this light, Graham Jackson looks at his own family’s sea migrations to...
