RN Drive, 29 June: Parliament breaks with hopes resting on expert asylum panel CPD Fellow Arja Keski-Nummi was interviewed by Julian Morrow on the seemingly intractable issues surrounding asylum-seeker and refugee policy. Keski-Nummi, former First Assistant… more
Refugee policy
John Menadue | The Wire 25 June 2012
Call for agreement on a regional solution for refugees CPD Fellow John Menadue AO was interviewed on The Wire radio news program on 25 June, alongside NSW Co-convenor of Labor for… more
Refugee Week Forum 2012 | 20th June, Sydney
Refugee Week Forum 1st floor Balmain Town Hall, 370 Darling Street, Balmain, Wednesday 20th June 6.30 for 7-9 p.m. (lift available) The Forum, Not Political Football: Real Solutions for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, is being… more
ACU Voice | Refugees: Human Rights and Our Ethical Obligations, 29 March, Sydney
There are more than 5,700 asylum seekers and refugees in immigration detention centres across Australia. More than two-thirds have been in detention for at least six months, and 97 people have been held for more… more
John Menadue | The Pacific Solution didn’t work before and it won’t work now
One-liners derived from focus groups and dog-whistling don’t add up to an acceptable refugee policy. But that is what the Coalition offers. ‘Stop the boats … turn them back to… more
John Menadue | The Truth About Airborne Asylum Seekers
CPD founder and Board Director John Menadue condemns the Opposition’s current stance on asylum seekers. Either using one-liners or simply recycling failed policy plans of the past, such as Nauru, is not a credible refugee… more
John Menadue | A Regional Cooperation Framework: International Association of Refugee Law Judges, Australian Chapter, Melbourne
There are 33 million persons of concern to the UNHCR throughout the world. There are about 15 million refugees. With instability and failed states, numbers are likely to increase, including… more
Mike Steketee | Vietnam-style solution needed
Mike Steketee writes in The Australian about the compromises that were made for the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees during the Vietnam war. For Australia to return to these… more
John Menadue | Support for Regional Asylum Seeker System
CPD founder John Menadue appears on ABC Radio to discuss regional solutions to Australia’s asylum seeker policy. After the most recent asylum seeker tragedy off the coast of Java, Menadue… more