The National Cruelty, by Russell Marks
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How to understand our attitude to refugees and detention regimes
Ai Weiwei and the Superficial Politics of Victimhood
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The image of Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei lying prostrate on a stony beach in Greece, recreating the now iconic photo of drowned Syrian infant Alan Kurdi, has predictably gone viral and generated fierce argument about the role of art and politics.
The problem with an image of this sort is that its meaning is endlessly debatable.
Garage Lecture #1: Transit and Establishment
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Garage Lectures presents the first lecture in a series of six for 2016 on forced migration, with critical focus on refugees and asylum seekers. Soups, drinks and all round discussion await you.
Malice in Wonderland, by Desmond Manderson
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The Abbott government and the erosion of the rule of law
Iraq and Our Democracy by Alison Caddick
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If the non-response to the marches against the Iraq war in 2003 confirmed a disabling political cynicism in many people, today we witness the political fruits of two decades of aggression in the Middle East and its fallout.
Latest comment: Alison, you said: "We know the story, but it is worth reminding ourselves of it: despite huge popular...
Australian Guantanamo
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Pamela Curr asks if strategies of systematic de-humanisation in Australian detention centres owe anything to US torture techniques.
Anaesthetising the National Conscience
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Julian Burnside The Howard Government’s Refugee Policy is a Hypocritical Contradiction of the
oft-espoused rhetoric of the ‘Fair Go’
No Horizons
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Anna Trembath and Damian Grenfell Baxter and Beyond: Where Now for the Refugee Movement?