Australia’s ‘post-truth’ asylum seeker debate
“Post-truth” is not exactly new. Successive Australian governments have been engaging in post-truth debates about refugees and asylum seekers for years.
“Post-truth” is not exactly new. Successive Australian governments have been engaging in post-truth debates about refugees and asylum seekers for years.
Artist Safdar Ahmed gives us a comic take on the Australia-US refugee deal.
By closing the camps and resettling refugees from Nauru and Manus Island, Australia would demonstrate basic humanity and remove an irritation from its alliance with the United States.
A new poem by Mark William Jackson puts us in the shoes of those fleeing war with few options of where to find a safe haven.
If asylum seekers can’t board a plane to Australia without a visa, they are forced to take dangerous sea journeys to find safety.
Amy Feldtmann writes on why welcoming refugees is strategically smart for Australians living in rural and regional areas.
Australia’s one-off refugee resettlement agreement with the US does not signal a softening of immigration policy.
Artist Eaten Fish documents the human rights abuses and daily agonies of life in an offshore immigration detention centre.
Breaking the Boundaries is an inspiring reminder that activists come in many different guises.
This film documents the lives of four Malian musical acts as they fight to continue playing the music they love after fleeing the violence of their homeland.
Poet Virginia Lowe reflects on asylum seekers and the impact such experiences have on children.
Australia wasted its recent opportunity at the UN to be a leader in international cooperation for refugees.