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The Search for the Least Bad Asylum Seeker Policy

“When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?” – John Maynard Keynes On the weekend perhaps two hundred asylum seekers...

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CULTURE

Performance Art Masterpiece: Mike Parr - 'Close the Concentration Camps', 2002

Anne Marsh

A man sits slumped in a chair; he wears a black suit, white shirt and no tie. His right trouser leg is ripped across the thigh revealing...

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WORLD

Comment: Hazara Asylum Seekers

Sally Neighbour

Yusuf Hamid was a shoemaker in the village of Kharaba in Ghazni Province, eastern Afghanistan. It was the time of the Taliban, as Afghans...

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WORLD

Holiday on Ice: Linda Jaivin on Harbin, China

Linda Jaivin

“Five bus tickets, one turkey and one lamb, please.” My friend then turns to the rest of us: “Karmically speaking, we’re going to hell.”...

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Uncle Malcolm

Martin Flanagan

“You should write about Uncle Malcolm,” Lenny Clarke told me one day. Lenny’s a Kirrae Wurrung man. He lives on his traditional lands,...

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WORLD

The Unknown Story of Cornelia Rau: Often she cried. Sometimes she screamed. She begun at Baxter in what was called Blue Compound. She was quickly sent to Red One

Robert Manne

Cornelia was the younger daughter of Edgar and Veronika, a solid middle-class German couple from the Baltic city of Hamburg. Edgar Rau...

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