Labor took the only deal it could to send asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea. But this is now a party divorced from its past, sailing against the tide that carried it this far.
People in PNG have reacted with shock then anger to the deal with Australia over boat people. Freelance journalist Catherine Wilson, who has lived and worked in PNG, surveys local reactions to the deal.
Kevin Rudd broke the news of the new PNG asylum seeker solution in classic media style -- late on a Friday. How did the media react?
Kevin Rudd scrapped the carbon tax, but can he stop the boats? Bernard Keane joins Crikey editor Jason Whittaker for an update on the Rudd revolution.
Targeting the UN Refugee Convention won't address the challenge of stopping the boats -- but it might fix Labor's political problem.
Like other countries, Australia has recorded a surge in the number of Iranians seeking asylum since 2009.
One of Kevin Rudd's greatest policy challenges is the treatment of asylum seekers. We ask immigration experts what the new PM should do on this vexed issue.
Despite a lack of boats, New Zealand introduces new laws to deal with asylum seekers. Are they afraid Australia could tell them to keep moving east, writes Klaus Neumann at Inside Story.
Tony Abbott's policy of turning back asylum seeker boats "when it is safe to do so" will endanger lives and crush navy morale, writes former Australian ambassador to Poland and Cambodia Tony Kevin.
The Age has inadvertently told its readers a poisonous mushroom has hallucinogenic properties.
