What has happened to the 11,990 Syrian refugees?
John Menadue. Republished from his blog, Pearls and Irritations. After telling us for months that Australia would not take additional Syrian refugees, Tony Abbott...
Australia’s moral crisis: shipping babies & families off to Nauru.
Bruce Duncan. How has it come to this, that the Australian government is poised to send back 37 babies, 54 children, and their families...
Resettling Syrian & Iraqi refugees: a program for government-community action.
Arja Keski-Nummi & Libby Lloyd. Reprinted from John Menadue’s blog, Pearls and Irritations. Australia has one of the best refugee resettlement systems in the world....
Time for inspired leadership.
Peter Whiting. Millions of people have been mesmerised by Pope Francis speaking to the joint sitting of US Congress and the United Nations General...
Church calls for humane treatment of asylum seekers.
Michael Walter. Australia’s Catholic bishops call for an increase in our intake of refugees, immediate closure of offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru,...
Labor’s pragmatism and turning back the boats.
Brendan E Byrne. The recent decision by the ALP National Conference to back Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s push to adopt the ‘turn back the...
Magna Carta after 800 years: relevance for our legislation on refugees, terrorists, secrecy, and other issues.
John Hassett. The most significant legacy of Magna Carta is its symbolism. We respect it today as a cornerstone of our freedom. This year...
Close Nauru & Manus Island: Australia’s disintegrating moral standards.
Bruce Duncan. Against the advice from Save the Children, which is under contract to provide welfare services on Nauru, a baby girl of five...
Treating asylum seekers humanely is a core Gospel demand.
Australia treats murderers better than we treat asylum seekers. Despite repeated appeals and protests from churches and other Australians, our government persists in detaining...
Ending the politics harming children in detention.
Caz Coleman. If only there were an opportunity to cut through the politics to name what Australia needs to do to address the harm to...
The moral dimension behind The Forgotten Children.
Brian Johnstone. Professor Gillian Triggs, president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, has found that, by reason of its policy of the continued retention...