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Category Archives: Immigration and refugees
Discrimination is a luxury
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared … Continue reading
The new Italian Renaissance . . . with a bleg at the end
The 1950s saw Australia’s Italian Renaissance which now leaves its traces in the tourist traps of Lygon St. Well they’re not too bad, but if you wanted to go to a good Italian Restaurant you’d have to know what you were doing … Continue reading
The Expert Panel report – hard-headed, hard-hearted or just half-baked?
Today’s report on asylum seeker policy by Prime Minister Gillard’s Expert Panelseems so far to have received a more positive response than I expected it would, including from the Abbott Coalition. Mind you, that mostly seems to be because Abbott’s … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration and refugees, Law, Politics - national
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Abbott is right just for once
Why doesn’t the Gillard Labor government swallow its pride and simply accept the Coalition’s latest compromise proposal on asylum seeker policy? (which is to enact legislation allowing asylum seekers to be sent for processing to any country that is a … Continue reading
The dodgy asylum seeker dilemma (part 2)
I could have made this a comment to yesterday’s dodgy asylum seeker dilemma post, but I thnk it deserves a thread all on its own. One of the more interesting but largely unexamined aspects of statistics about asylum seekers in … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration and refugees, Law, Politics - national
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The dodgy asylum seeker dilemma
Monday evening’s Four Corners program about people smugglers gaining fraudulent entry to Australia didn’t derail the Refugee Action Coalition Sydney’s propaganda campaign even for a moment: The Four Corners’ people smuggling program has only added to the demonisation that surrounds … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration and refugees, Law, Politics - national
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Lock them up and throw away the key?
There is quite a bit of current public controversy over refugees indefinitely held in immigration detention as a result of adverse ASIO security assessments which they cannot effectively challenge. Secret evidence provisions in ASIO regulations mean they can be denied … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration and refugees, Law
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