By turning the Intergenerational report into an attack on Labor, Joe Hockey will wreck the value of a report designed to facilitate sensible long-term debate, Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer write.
It is crystal clear that Australia has breached its international obligations by treating asylum seeker children so harshly. Madeline Gleeson, research associate at the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW, asks: who's responsible?
Health funds waiting for certainty ... new Graham Perrett book on the way ... why is Vogue obsessed with llamas?
Study trip to Cuba? Hopefully ... Mercy campaign now includes most MPs ... who blocks their critics on Twitter?
The Immigration Department has been taken over by hardliners whose focus is border protection. And it's ruffling a lot of feathers, The Mandarin journalist Stephen Easton writes.
A Sydney doctor and refugee advocate says the hunger-striking asylum seekers on Manus Island are not receiving proper medical care -- and the results could be deadly.
Yes, the newly announced visas are prefereable to indefinite offshore detention. But they are turning humanitarian visas into skilled migrant visas, write refugee law experts Jane McAdam and Kerry Murphy.
"Stopping the boats" hasn't stopped the flow of refugees to Indonesia -- but it has stranded them there without proper resources.
Crikey intern Andrey Rodionov compiles Hanson's 10 most outrageous moments.
The powerful Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security wants significant changes to the government's "foreign fighters" legislation -- and a much greater future role for itself in overseeing legislation.
