The continual use of colourful language when talking about terrorism exaggerates the threat in Australia and could play into the hands of Islamic State’s sophisticated recruitment strategies.
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Malcolm Turnbull has warned against overestimating the Islamic State threat and amplifying its significance, in a speech contrasting sharply with Tony Abbott’s declarations.
Australia should learn from the UK’s mistakes if taking a leaf out of its book on citizenship reform.
Whatever we think of the family of foreign fighter Khaled Sharrouf or their circumstances, they enjoy the right to return on the same footing as every other Australian citizen.
It is important that we do not entirely dismiss Zaky Mallah’s comments on Q&A. He sheds light on a seductive mechanism for young Muslims that is real.
The parliamentary budget session has ended with Tony Abbott having reason to feel a good deal more confident than Bill Shorten.
Should the bill be enacted in its current form, Australian citizenship will be able to be stripped from dual nationals by bureaucratic determination for conduct that is defined with reference to the criminal law.
Zaky Mallah, the former terrorism suspect at the centre of the Q&A storm, travelled to the studio in a free bus the program puts on to take audience members from Sydney’s western suburbs
No-one is inclined to refer to human rights in public debate in Australia when its leaders either avoid the idea or attack it, and the news media are silent on it.
Nations such as the United States have treated climate change as a major security threat for years. The Australian government’s forthcoming Defence White Paper cannot afford to ignore the issue.
Foreign fighters have always posed a dual challenge: how to stop them going and what to do if they return. History offers lessons on managing these problems, including that it’s hard to stop them leaving.
In its rush to deny overseas fighters their Australian citizenship, the government must ensure it doesn’t end up endorsing the very thing it wants to repudiate.
When Bill Shorten was asked by the Royal Commission into union corruption to appear before it, he said he wouldn’t be commenting on allegations about his time as an Australian Workers Union official until he gave evidence.
Bill Shorten’s July 8 appearance before the royal commission into union corruption is crucial for his credibility and has major implications for his leadership.
If governments are to maintain public support for their military ventures, war narratives must be kept simple and consistent. The underlying message must not change: the West is always the innocent victim of terrorism, never its perpetrator.
The Abbott government’s anti-terrorism pitch is tapping into and feeding a deep vein of national security fear in the Australian population.
The government goes into the parliamentary session’s final fortnight on the back foot over two highly contentious issues: its citizenship legislation and Indonesia’s demand to know whether Australia paid…
Simply having judicial review for the contentious power to strip citizenship from dual nationals suspected of involvement with terrorism – without independent merits review – is far from reasonable.
It’s awkward for the government – but very good for the public debate – that the Coalition’s citizenship-stripping initiative coincides with the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. Next Monday’s birthday…
Most of the government’s discussion paper is devoted to framing citizenship in a way that is conducive to its proposal to strip dual nationals involved in terrorist activities of their citizenship.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
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Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor in Public Law and Human Rights, Durham University
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Law School, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate in Law, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Loyola University Chicago
