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National Affairs
Small world
Peter Brent | Mumble
28 March 2018
Would a stronger prime minister pull Peter Dutton into line?
National Affairs
Power, in black and white
Sophie Black
1 August 2017
A man who seems relaxed about making life-and-death decisions might not be the best person to head an all-powerful new ministry
International
Up against Angela Merkel, a Social Democrat wants to talk about refugees
Klaus Neumann
25 July 2017
The debate of 2015 is being revived by a candidate for chancellor in September’s election
Books & Arts
Selling “new Australians” to old Australians
Maruta Rodan
19 June 2017
Books
| Careful marketing helped ease the arrival of 170,000 migrants from postwar Europe
National Affairs
Populism runs up against electoral reality
Rob Hoffman
21 March 2017
Election results in Western Australia and Austria show how unpopular populist policies can be
Books & Arts
Picnics and politics
Kate Bagnall
24 January 2014
Chinese-Australian community leaders created a new perception of the Chinese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writes
Kate Bagnall
Essays & Reportage
Across the African divide
12 September 2012
Ralph Johnstone
meets the people at the sharp end of the complex challenges facing young refugees from Africa
Essays & Reportage
A death in the rain
Peter Mares
24 September 2010
FROM THE ARCHIVE | This week Fijian fruit-picker Josefa Rauluni died in the Villawood detention centre.
Peter Mares
describes a similar case nearly ten years ago, and how…
National Affairs
Almost a decade in limbo for Australia’s longest-serving immigration detainee
Geoffrey Barker
21 May 2010
“Mrs Bao” is still waiting for the Australian government to respond to requests from the Commonwealth ombudsman and the United Nations Human Rights Committee.…
International
Immigration, race and the British election
James Jupp
3 May 2010
Seasoned British election watcher
James Jupp
looks at the role of these emotionally charged issues in the current campaign
National Affairs
Immigration’s culture war
Glenn Nicholls
2 November 2008
Detention reform is just the beginning, writes
Glenn Nicholls
. Labor’s immigration minister now has the task of changing the culture of his department