On May 15, 1938, Chaim Manne, his wife Leonora and their young son tried to escape Nazi Austria by gassing themselves. Leonora succeeded. Chaim’s ordeal was just beginning.
- Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
In an extract from his new book, The Mind of the Islamic State, Robert Manne unpacks the split between IS and Al Qaeda.
It has been the absolutism embedded in Australian immigration culture of control that helps explain our hardline policy history on asylum seekers.
Before the second world war, a very small minority of the population in Western societies went to universities. Most were men, most were from the social elite. From the late 1950s that changed. With a…
Last weekend, an overcrowded fishing boat sank off the coast of Indonesia with more than 200 asylum seekers on board. In Australia, the political blame game started soon after with both sides trying to…
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