Looking Into: Australia’s Approach to LGBTIQ Asylum Seekers and Refugees By Jasmine Dawson 02 July 2017 Darwin Bell/ Flickr The treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) asylum seekers and refugees […] Read More
A Path to Social Inclusion in a Multicultural Australia Vivian Rivera 02 July 2017 vapourtrails/flickr With substantial population flows across and between national boundaries and societies, the issue of social inclusion is growing in complexity. Migration trends […] Read More
Migrant Smuggling into Malaysia: Lessons from the Andaman Sea Crisis Elisa Solomon 02 July 2017 Naval Surface Warriors/flickr The 2015 Humanitarian Crisis In May 2015, the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal witnessed […] Read More
Is Chinese Meritocracy the New Black? Book Review: The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy, Daniel Bell Cait Kelly 02 July 2017 AK Rockefeller/flickr In the beginning, there was Deng Since 1978, when Deng Xiaoping, China’s Vice Premier and military […] Read More
What Has RAMSI Achieved? By Roderick Brazier 01 July 2017 After 14 years the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands has drawn to a close. The initiative has been widely praised. So, what has […] Read More
Succession Uncertainty in Oman Threatens the Switzerland of the Middle East By Will McEniry 01 July 2017 In the increasingly unstable Middle East, the one country that has maintained its neutrality has been Oman. But new uncertainty about the […] Read More
Reading Room: Australia’s American Alliance By Dr Adam Lockyer 01 July 2017 There is no doubt that the appearance of the latest edited volume by Peter J. Dean, Stephan Frühling and Brendan Taylor, Australia’s American […] Read More
Urban Conflict Inflicts Suffering on a New Scale By Andrea Lunt 29 June 2017 As the battle for Mosul nears its end this week, an estimated 50 million people continue to live in cities torn by conflict. Urban battles have […] Read More
Tony Walker FAIIA 27 June 2017 Tony Walker FAIIA is a vice chancellor’s fellow at La Trobe University, author and fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. A former international […] Read More
Two Systems, One Headache: Hong Kong 20 Years After the Handover to China By Professor Nick Bisley 27 June 2017 As the twentieth anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong back to mainland China approaches, Beijing’s official policy of ‘one […] Read More
Reading Room: Light and Shadow, Memoirs of a Spy’s Son By Tony Walker FAIIA 27 June 2017 If we’d had a competition for the most admired voice in Australian broadcasting, certainly the most distinctive, chances are the late Mark Colvin […] Read More