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Processing centres in North Africa are not the answer for EU refugees
Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron invited his counterparts from Libya, Niger, Chad, Italy, Germany and Spain to Paris to discuss ways of stopping the... Read More
New Home Affairs department should prompt review of Australia’s human rights performance
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has just announced the creation of a new “super-ministry”, modelled on the UK Home Office. By the end of 2018, Australia... Read More
The Impact of Deterrence on Victims of Torture
Australia’s refugee status determination (RSD) system has been explicitly focused on deterring asylum-seeking since at least 2012 when the former government’s ‘Expert Panel’ was tasked... Read More
Injustices and the Art of Realpolitik
The latest instalment of Australia’s Pacific Solution has been an exercise in state-sanctioned cruelty. Hardly a week goes by without new revelations about the mistreatment... Read More
Public attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees
Australian politicians have a long history of using dehumanising language to influence public opinion against people seeking asylum, particularly those arriving by boat (Clark 2013,... Read More
‘The end is nigh’: What should happen after Nauru and Manus close?
Australia’s offshore processing experiment, involving the detention of asylum seekers on Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG), has failed. Earlier last year, the Supreme Court... Read More
Asylum Seeker mistreatment – the criminal law perspectice
The Australian Human Rights Commission’s November 2014 Forgotten Children report, about Australia’s mistreatment of asylum seeker children in detention, exposed the international human rights law and “duty... Read More
Delete the term ‘ethnic.’ Representations of ‘Stateless Arabs.’
It was a pleasure to present my work at the tenth annual Researchers for Asylum seekers conference on the 16th of November, 2015. It was... Read More
The competing sovereign: pregnancy, resistance and seeking asylum
How might we understand the construction and policing of the pregnant body through the presence and the practice of these detention camps – neither entirely... Read More