The High Court passed up the opportunity to clarify important issues in its judgement on the NT Intervention, writes Tessa Meyrick.

How does income inequality compare to more traditional measures of disadvantage, like poverty?

Those who sensed that religion had become a bigger part of Australian politics in the early twenty-first century were quite right, writes Anna Crabb.

People smuggling is a matter of considerable political concern to Western governments, and has received much international attention in recent years.

The Rudd Government should help out the United States by accepting some of the remaining seventeen Uighur detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The Uighurs, ethnically Turkic Muslins who populate China’s north-west, have been detained at Guantanamo since 2002, despite having no known connection with al Qaeda. Whilst US courts have cleared the way...