The pressure the Abbott government faced over the Syrian refugee crisis hints at a broader trend. Global political dynamics are now exposing a credibility deficit in Australian foreign policy.
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Much of the conventional wisdom among academics over the last decade or so has focused on the convergent trends in European government policies toward both migrants and asylum seekers. Spurred on by European…
Powerful images – like the one of Aylan Kurdi that flooded the Internet last week – can spark political change.
The UK will take in 20,000 refugees but how many is enough and should we be counting?
Tony Abbott is wedged between the hard right in the Coalition and commentariat on the one hand, and Liberal moderates, compassionate conservatives and pragmatists on the other, as the government considers…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that Australia takes more refugees than any other through the UNHCR on a per capita basis. Is that right?
The size of the refugee crisis stemming from the conflict in Syria means that no single country can deal with it alone.
The Czech police were condemned for writing numbers on refugees’ arms – but Central Europe’s problem with outsiders goes much deeper.
The Abbott government is under pressure to increase its overall humanitarian refugee intake, as Labor declared Australia should offer a one-off additional 10,000 places for refugees.
Europe has long struggled to share the burden fairly and now the situation is at breaking point.
In just a few weeks, the people of Europe have been galvanised into supporting the refugees dying to reach their shores.
While politicians talk security, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding on the French coast.
With thousands dying in the Mediterranean, migrants and refugees have started coming to Europe by land. And countries in the East aren’t happy.
Syrians are the single largest group of displaced people in the world. How to make sure that the plight of these refugees doesn’t fuel future conflicts?
Governments mark Migrant Week by denying the problem.
The EU’s proposal to relocate 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean nationals from Greece and Italy to other EU Member States is not what it seems.
While many insist that the West should appease Syria’s Assad regime, this ignores the wishes of many ordinary Syrians – who are the key to defeating Islamic State and other extremists in Syria.
The data shows that most of us could afford to do more to shelter those fleeing from Syria’s civil war.
A drought in Syria that was exacerbated by climate change helped fuel the unrest that led to the country’s civil war.
Thousands of Jordanians - including the country’s Queen Rania - took to the streets of the capital Amman February 6. They were protesting the burning alive of the Jordanian fighter pilot Moaz al-Kasabeh…
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