Real problem or “race to the bottom”? – Part II
In Part I of this article I outlined the major shortcomings of the Refugees Convention and traced the ways it was contributing to the current...
Real problem or “race to the bottom”? – Part I
Liberal Catholic priest and legal academic Father Frank Brennan thinks Australia's current asylum seeker policies, which are effectively bipartisan despite the electorally-driven sound and fury,...
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...
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...
The Expert Panel report – hard-headed, hard-hearted or just half-baked?
[caption id="attachment_21240" align="alignright" width="200"] Socrates Plato Paris Aristotle (it's all Greek to me - sorry couldn't help it)[/caption] Today's report on asylum seeker policy by...
Abbott is right just for once
[caption id="attachment_20702" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Sri Lankan asylum seekers in Nauru detention in 2007"][/caption] Why doesn't the Gillard Labor government swallow its pride and simply accept...
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. ...