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...
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...
Riding the asylum seeker merry-go-round
Gillard government - Not a time for political point-scoring but the sinking is all that mongrel Abbott's fault for refusing to vote for our Malaysia...
A post-Malaysia asylum seeker policy
I simply can't understand the strategic or even tactical thinking (if any) behind the Gillard government's decision to pursue a legislative revival of the Malaysia...
Labor’s asylum seekers stance – die on your feet!
A comment by Chris Lloyd on my post about last week's High Court decision brings into sharp relief why it will be a high risk...
Driving the final nails into a political coffin
On any view yesterday's High Court decision holding the Malaysia Solution to be unlawful is a smashing blow to the Gillard government and an equally...
Legal heaven on a stick
I've long been puzzled why Michelle Grattan is seen as an eminence grise of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Unlike her corpulent male counterpart Laurie Oakes,...