David Hume reflects upon a May 2010 High Court decision, where a divided High Court set a high bar for those seeking to challenge refugee decisions on the basis that they are irrational or illogical.

Tessa Meyrick looks at the Howard Government’s legislative legacy, in the context of refugee law.

The fifth annual Lowy Institute Poll surveys Australian public opinion on a broad range of foreign policy issues. New questions this year cover the priority given to action on climate change, public attitudes towards relations with the US and China, foreign investment, asylum seekers, how to deal with Iran and perceptions about nuclear threats. The...

In remembering Tampa and its consequences, both the banished asylum seeker and Christmas Islanders are again on the margins of society and are subject to the whims of government.

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...