A record 65.3 million people were displaced last year: What does that number actually mean?
Aug 01, 2016 07:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
We continue to witness violent attacks bombings and murders in France, Germany, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq; fighting in South Sudan and the continued civil war in Syria. These conflicts have renewed interest in the...
How Germany's troubled history adds a twist to Angela Merkel's migration woes
Jul 29, 2016 09:12 am UTC| Insights & Views
The motives behind the four attacks that have taken place in Germany recently are still under investigation. Links to Islamic State are suspected in two cases, but not in the others. The one common factor was that all the...
Worth a thousand words – how photos shape attitudes to refugees
Jul 29, 2016 07:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Over the last two decades we have seen the unprecedented politicisation of immigration. Many Australians remember the wave of immigration after World War II when our rapidly developing industrialised economy addressed its...
European Migrant Crisis: Brexit isn’t the biggest crisis in Europe
Jul 27, 2016 07:17 am UTC| Commentary
The June 23rd referendum in the United Kingdom, which could eventually lead to the Brexit is not really the biggest threat in Europe, its really the migrant crisis. It has already done the damage in dividing a decade-long...
European Migrant Crisis: Islamic terrorism in Europe walks a dangerous path
Jul 27, 2016 05:57 am UTC| Commentary
A priest and four other people were taken hostages in a Catholic Church in Normandy, France by two Islamic militants and they first made the priest kneel down and then slit his throat with a knife. These two men were...
European Refugee Crisis: four attacks within a week likely to weigh over German election
Jul 25, 2016 11:19 am UTC| Commentary
Four attacks within a span of four weeks have rocked German people to the core. On 19th July, an afghan man attacked with aknife and anaxe in Wuerzburg that severely injured four people. On Friday, June 22nd, David Ali...
Explaining the Istanbul bombing: Turkey's six foreign policy sins
Jun 30, 2016 15:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views
You dont have to be an avid follower of international news to have heard about the terror attack at Istanbuls Ataturk airport Turkeys biggest and Europes third largest hub for air travel. Most likely carried out by ISIS,...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well