Earlier this year, just ahead of the federal election, I emailed some routine questions to Home Affairs. I was planning an article for Inside Story about...
The wave of protests that swept through Indonesian cities and towns last week bore more than a few resemblances to those that brought down the Suharto...
Seventy-four years ago an outfit called Australian Public Opinion Polls conducted a Gallup survey about Australians’ attitudes to immigration. The headline in Melbourne’s Herald emphasised the...
Three years ago, to some controversy, my local council changed the name of our part of inner-northern Melbourne from Moreland to Merri-bek, a Woi-wurrung word meaning...
At Donald Trump’s cabinet committee meeting this week, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said the following to his beloved president: There’s only one thing I wish...
‘I don’t have to go to school anymore,” said my Year 8 son during one of our regular conversations about why school matters. “ChatGPT has a...
Thousands of refugees entered Germany in September 2015 — thousands on each of its thirty days, that is. On the first weekend of the month, the...
This week’s shocking violence in the small Victorian town of Porepunkah has shone a spotlight on the potential threats to police posed by “sovereign citizens.” But...
On 18 August Hamas accepted a new ceasefire proposal for the war in Gaza. The deal, which had just been presented by Egypt and Qatar and...
African American journalist Vincent Tubbs had been reporting on lynchings in the South for the Baltimore Afro-American until the paper sent him to North Africa and...