Cast adrift: Australia risks its international standing over asylum-seeker policies
Aug 16, 2016 14:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The Nauru files, which detail reports of abuse in Australias asylum-seeker detention centre on Nauru, have received global attention since their release. They should provide a flashpoint for the Turnbull government to...
Welcome to City Plaza, Athens: a new approach to housing refugees
Aug 16, 2016 13:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views
There are now around 55,000 people stranded in Greece as a result of Europes failed response to the so-called migration crisis and many refugees are losing hope. Many languish in camps dotted across the Greek islands, and...
Record high global migration may give new meaning to 'diaspora'
Aug 08, 2016 04:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Groups of human beings have always moved or migrated from one geographic location to another. This phenomenon continues in the 21st century and is driven by national and international wars, globalization of local and...
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...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight