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Asia is home to the world’s largest known stateless group, the Rohingya. Reuters/Rafiquar Rahman

How the Asia‑Pacific can lead the way on migrants and refugees

Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne; Peter Hughes, Australian National University; Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Mahidol University; Steven Wong, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, and Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)

Unless managed more effectively, forced migration will have permanent and intensifying negative impacts on countries across the globe.
Diplomats and officials from 17 countries met in Bangkok in May 2015 to discuss how to deal with the thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees. AAP/Diego Azubel

The Andaman Sea refugee crisis a year on: is the region now better prepared?

Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Mahidol University; Peter Hughes, Australian National University; Steven Wong, Institute of Strategic and International Studies; Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne, and Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)

Plans for more robust architecture on forced migration need to be more advanced. Countries in our region must not rest on their laurels.
Regional leaders must continue to take concrete steps to avoid a repeat of the 2015 Andaman Sea refugee crisis. Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun

The Andaman Sea refugee crisis a year on: what happened and how did the region respond?

Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne; Peter Hughes, Australian National University; Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Mahidol University; Steven Wong, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, and Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)

The region is showing signs it is determined to ensure similar mass displacement crises such as that which took place in the Andaman Sea in 2015 are avoided.
Despite its limitations, the Bali Process is the main game in town when it comes to dealing with forced migration in the Asia-Pacific. EPA/Hotli Simanjuntak

The Bali Process can do a lot more to respond to forced migration in our region

Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne; Peter Hughes, Australian National University; Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Mahidol University; Steven Wong, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, and Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)

There is every sign the underlying causes of forced migration – war, repression, ethnic conflict, climate change displacement and rampant human trafficking – will continue.
When Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister, the innovation debate began in earnest, but some of Australia’s rivals have a head start in the fierce global contest of ideas. AAP/Dan Himbrechts

Battle of ideas is on as election‑year innovation debate starts to make up for lost time

Anand Kulkarni, RMIT University and Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne

Politicians and policymakers are at last grappling with the urgent need to generate new ideas and fresh ways of doing things. But in the race to the top, Australia has barely reached base camp.
A swing and a miss: instead of taking its own advice to ‘have a go’ in its second budget, the government is like the captain who sends in a nightwatchman instead of himself. AAP/Tony Ashby

Budget week reveals an appetite for government but not to govern

Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne

Joe Hockey’s second budget has two large deficits: the fiscal one, plus the lack of a coherent and creative plan for Australia. The Abbott government failed to ‘have a go’ at building the future.
At one climate change conference after another, leaders of the developed democracies solemnly pledge action, then return to the gridlock of political systems with 19th-century origins. EPA/COP20

Hidden crisis of liberal democracy creates climate change paralysis

Mark Triffitt, The University of Melbourne and Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne

Even as the challenges of climate change grow ever more obvious, what remains largely unacknowledged is the crisis in liberal democratic politics that is preventing an effective response.
The cross-bench senators may call to mind Paul Keating’s charge of ‘unrepresentative swill’, but they also reflect and respond to the 21st-century world in ways that the major parties can’t. AAP/Alan Porritt

Don’t blame micro‑parties or the Senate – update an archaic system

Mark Triffitt, The University of Melbourne and Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne

The Senate is not a root cause, but part of a long list of symptoms that indicate Australia’s political system is increasingly unfit for purpose in the 21st century.
Like Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day, Australia must change its way of thinking – or else we face the grim fate of being trapped in an economic rut. Columbia Pictures

Prosperity or decline? Liberating ideas can reboot our economy

Anand Kulkarni, RMIT University and Travers McLeod, The University of Melbourne

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting wraps up off the piste in the Swiss ski resort this weekend. Two themes are growth and stability; and innovation and industry. Attendees must feel like Bill Murray…

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