Peter Dutton’s Wednesday news conference was the predictable rant against Labor, but something else came through. The Immigration Minister is genuinely anxious to get the refugees off Nauru and Manus Island…
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Shortly after Malcolm Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton aggressively targeted Labor on Sunday when announcing the government’s latest draconian border deterrent, Turnbull rang Bill Shorten…
The government's message to asylum seekers is already clear: you are not welcome, and you will not be resettled in Australia. Surely that message does not need to be any harsher.
The only way the Turnbull government’s announcement of its latest move against boat people makes sense is if it is the belt-and-braces part of a wider plan to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus Island…
It has been the absolutism embedded in Australian immigration culture of control that helps explain our hardline policy history on asylum seekers.
An implementation gap means Australian courts cannot directly enforce children's rights as protected in international law.
How do the media management strategies devised in haste 15 years ago affect how asylum seekers are portrayed today?
A new policy to take refugees from Central America may be paving the way to solve the refugee problem on Manus Island and Nauru.
Turnbull can show leadership in the current talks in New York by driving an Asian regional solution to the global refugee crisis.
While the debate around Section 18C has raged, a host of other laws that impinge on freedom of speech have been quietly introduced.
The Senate has set up an inquiry into the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island, to report by late March next year.
Since retiring from politics in 2012, former Greens leader Bob Brown has continued to offer sharp perspectives on issues of national debate.
Successive Australian governments have dehumanised refugees and kept Australians in the dark about what really goes on in the offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island.
The heightened scrutiny of Australia's immigration policies in recent weeks has shone a light on the long-term problems of indefinite detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
Peter Dutton always sounds put upon. This week he was bleating about Guardian Australia and the ABC 'defaming' him.
It has taken more than three months for the Australian and PNG governments to jointly announce the Manus Island detention centre will close. But the detainees’ fate is now even more uncertain.
An angry Malcolm Turnbull has asked CEDA for a 'please explain' and the Australian Federal Police for a full incident report about the protest over Nauru and Manus Island.
Peter Dutton’s comments reinforced historically ingrained ideas about sexual assault victims as being 'unreliable' or 'untrustworthy'.
Reports of abuse on Nauru should provide a flashpoint for the Turnbull government to reassess its asylum-seeker policies before more serious harm is inflicted on Australia's international standing.
In the 1960s, with the phosphate boom over and Nauru's economy in ruins, Australia offered to move the entire nation to Queensland's Curtis Island. But with no sovereignty on offer, the deal collapsed.
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Professor of Cultural Studies and Research Director of the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
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Lecturer (Sessional), Monash University
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Associate Lecturer, ANU College of Law – Migration Law Program, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor and Chair: Mental Health Nursing, University of South Australia
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