Peter Mares is the presenter of The National Interest on ABC Radio National and the author of Borderline: Australia’s Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Wake of the Tampa.

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The Scott Morrison who claims that deterring boat people from ever embarking on the hazardous journey across the Indian Ocean ...

Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, has on his shelves a copy of Microcosmographia Academica, the classic university satire, written by the University of Cambridge scholar ...

Contributor for The Saturday Paper, Ben Abbatangelo, on what the major parties are really offering – and what it all means for First Nations people around the country. At one point during this term of ...

At just 26 years old, Édouard Louis is France’s foremost writer of post-industrial despair. His extraordinarily successful debut, The End of Eddy, was a coming-of-age memoir th ...

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From his days in a boys’ home to co-founding Australia’s first Indigenous theatre group, Jack Charles has been up and ...

Katter had a lot riding on a majority “yes” vote. It would be more than a vote for de-amalgamation; it would be a validation ...

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Experts have long blamed the decline of the Coorong on decades of over-extraction of water to irrigate the Murray–Darling ...