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What's wrong with the Rwanda plan?
There are many unanswered questions about the government’s new policy of compelled expulsion to Rwanda of uninvited asylum claimants. Here…
Tony Abbott is right about immigration - and turning back boats
For many years, Australia has been turning away boats filled with migrants. From a remove, this looks cold–hearted — a…
The most gripping sea-catastrophe writing I have read outside Conrad
When the novelist David Vann was 13, his father — a difficult, unhappy dreamer in his thirties, constantly in dread,…
Merkel’s grandstanding on Syrian refugees will lead to many more deaths at sea
By making them more likely to attempt the perilous journey to Europe, the German chancellor is luring would-be migrants to their deaths
Lesbos: the tourist island where half Greece's migrants land
On a Greek beach, watching migrants’ dinghies arrive from Turkey
