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Refugee priorities

The slow increase in the number of asylum seekers arriving by boat in Australian waters is creating a slowly increasing number of  antagonistic public comments and complaints.  Immigration Minister Chris Evans understandably points to the deteriorating position in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan as a factor, as well as noting a “second supply chain” from [...]

The continuing horror in Sri Lanka

The savage warfare and the well-documented human rights abuses by both sides of the entrenched conflict in Sri Lanka seems to have been going on for so long that it can be easy to forget about just how terrible the current situation is for the thousands of Tamil civilians currently trapped in the so-called “no-fire [...]