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Horrors of the Congo conflict must not be ignored

December 17, 2008 – 1:09 am

Putting an end to the appalling humanitarian disaster in Zimbabwe which has been unfolding in a slow-motion sort of way for a number of years has clearly been beyond the capability of the global community, even when things have reached the current quite astonishing degree of disintegration of virtually the entire economy and almost all [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in international issues | Comments (1)

The real world and Australia

December 8, 2008 – 9:26 pm

Australians often like to poke fun at how allegedly insular people from the USA are when in comes to events outside their borders.  But the fact that a tiny number of asylum seekers arriving by boat in Australia generates pants-wetting front page coverage in Australia suggests we might be no better when it comes to [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in human rights, international issues, refugees | Also tagged , | Comments (1)

Migrants in Parliament II – the NZ election

October 21, 2008 – 6:56 am

For hundreds of thousands of Australian residents, next month’s New Zealand election has greater significance than the recent WA or ACT polls or the NSW by-elections. 
By global standards, both New Zealand and Australia have a very high proportion of their population who were born in another country.  In 2006, 22.9 percent of people usually living in [...]

By Andrew Bartlett | Posted in multiculturalism | Also tagged | Comments (2)