For the Coalition, it was about stopping so-called “illegals”. For Labor, it was framed as “saving lives at sea”. For both, it was about keeping people seeking asylum out of contact with the Australian community, demonised and dehumanised, called by numbers, not...
The following is a musing, albeit limited, on some elements of an additional critique coming from a Christian background. Ever since the British colonisation of Australia, governments have concentrated on the security of our borders. This has often been done...
The government is targeting refugees and migrants whom it had previously been forced to release from its onshore immigration detention system following a landmark 2023 high court ruling. The court ruled that Australia’s use of indefinite immigration detention was...
It’s estimated that more than 122,000 people are homeless in this country. Many of them are Australians failed by society, slipping through the cracks of social, unemployment and mental health support structures. They may be huddled under blankets on the street, or...
I was born in Tigray, a province in northern Ethiopia. I am a mathematician and have studied and worked in many universities. I completed my Bachelor’s degree at one university in southern Ethiopia and was then employed at another one, south of the capital (Addis...
June 20, 2025 Is this how we want our visa processing system to run? Two of the families RAR successfully settled in Australia were the result of extensive political lobbying. A retired government minister who asked RAR to sponsor the sister of one of his former...
