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The cream of Australia’s security establishment are gathering for their annual shindig, the "Safeguarding Australia Summit", writes Jake Lynch, associate professor and director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney.

What Australia can learn from Sri Lanka about ‘security’

Sep 22, 2010

A High Court challenge to the detention of two Tamil refugees is about trying to bring legal equity to refugees who are processed offshore, says the instructing solicitor behind the case.

High Court challenge could bring legal equity to offshore asylum-seekers

Aug 26, 2010

In true post 9-11 politics style, the Australian government is going after anyone to look tough and in control on refugees. And it's put humanitarian aid in the firing line, writes <b>Brami Jegan</b>.

Rudd’s tougher refugee line could criminalise humanitarian aid

Jun 08, 2010

India has 1.7 billion people and 1600 languages and dialects, but many believe it's time for a single lingua franca. But <em>which</em> language? Hindi? English? And is it even achievable?

Can India learn to speak in a single tongue?

Mar 11, 2010

If more Tamils had voted in the last Sri Lankan election, there might have been no renewal of the war, no large-scale human rights abuses, and even no boatloads of refugees off the Australian coast, says <b>Charles Richardson</b>.

Richardson: Elections matter — just ask the Tamils

Charles Richardson

Jan 27, 2010

Fluoro coloured cows! <b>Scott Bridges</b> attends the Pongal festival in India, where cows are painted bright yellow (or blue, green or even multi-coloured) and the temples are overflowing with devotees.

Pongal: the fluorescent cow festival

Jan 15, 2010

ASIO says that five refugees from <em>Oceanic Viking</em> constitute a threat to national security. How can this be a healthy democratic country when a secret agency plays such a major role in a political debate, without even making its sources available?

ASIO, not the government, calling the shots on refugees

Jan 13, 2010

Four of the Tamil asylum seekers from the Oceanic Viking kerfuffle have been rejected for security reasons, putting the government in a difficult conundrum. They can't send them back, can't give them Australian visas and its unlikely any other country will want them. What now?

Risky refugees trap Rudd

Jan 12, 2010

<b>Matt Wade</b> visits Sri Lanka and discovers why the Australian government faces such a difficult battle persuading asylum seekers to return there: war-torn villages surrounded by landmines, a lack of jobs, medical care and education.

What they’re fleeing in Sri Lanka

Nov 13, 2009

Disparaging comments about Tamil asylum seekers by the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia makes it almost certain they will meet the criteria of the Refugee Convention, even if they didn’t before, writes <b>Andrew Bartlett</b>.

Sri Lanka inadvertently throws Tamils a lifeline

Andrew Bartlett

Oct 30, 2009

It's <a href="http://www.srilankaweek.com.au/">Sri Lanka Week</a>, but rather than thinking about investments, perhaps we should focus on the 300,000 Tamils being imprisoned in an internment camp in the country, in direct violation of their human rights rights, writes <b>Jake Lynch</b>.

Time to stand up for human rights in Sri Lanka — at last

Oct 29, 2009

Memo to Wilson Tuckey: There are already former members of the Tamil Tigers living in Australia -- mostly professional people, raising successful children, writes <b>Bruce Haigh</b>.

What is the fuss over former LTTE members in Australia?

Oct 26, 2009

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