Asylum seeker policy showed toughness in one small, but highly visible, part of the system while creating room to loosen policy everywhere else.
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Florida’s current approach to insurance is forcing those who can least afford it to bear the cost of the climate crisis. But different approaches are available.
Tampa residents, take note: The Battery has delivered for the Atlanta Braves, but not for Georgia taxpayers.
Australia’s impossible housing crisis, One Nation as a political force, privatised education … how many of our problems can be traced back to John Howard?
Much of the state is at risk of heavy rainfall, and the coast could see devastating storm surge, particularly around Tampa Bay.
Does a journalist’s gender matter if their job is to speak truth to power? It shouldn’t but until recently did. A new book, Through Her Eyes, tells the stories of our women foreign correspondents.
Public health officials and politicians have access to the same data on COVID-19 cases, deaths and transmission, but might arrive at different conclusions.
The 2001 federal election was a watershed moment for Australian national security that has set a policy agenda for almost two decades.
Since the Tampa affair in 2001, successive governments have been anxious to be seen as “hard-line” on asylum seekers, but the cost – to people and the country – has been too high.
It is often thought that the Tampa incident won John Howard the 2001 election, but an analysis of polling from the time shows the September 11 attacks had a far bigger impact on voting intentions.
In a suburban hair salon, a Muslim woman suddenly feels unwelcome in the country she has loved for 40 years.
Under US law, the president must publish all of their executive orders for public view. The Australian government is under no such obligation.
The Tampa incident in 2001 has formed the underlying basis of the approach to asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia by boat ever since.
How do the media management strategies devised in haste 15 years ago affect how asylum seekers are portrayed today?
Images move us to act – as last week’s episode of Four Corners has shown. Our government has gone to great lengths to suppress photos that humanise asylum seekers – but when they seep out, empathy is aroused.
The government’s uncontested assessment of national interest and security often trumps the rule of domestic and international law, as well as Australia’s obligations under human rights treaties.
By our response to boat people since August 2001, we may have redefined our national character.
The dramatic rescue of more than 400 asylum seekers by the Norwegian vessel, the Tampa, ten years ago set in train a series of events that has since caused immense suffering to so many. It is surely now…
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Adjunct professor, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
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Professor and Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW
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Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Public Policy and Political Science, University of Sydney
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor; Senior Research Fellow, Adelaide University
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Sessional Instructor, Journalism, Griffith University
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
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Lang Chair in Sport Management, Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph
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Associate Dean Academic, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph, University of Guelph
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne